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Two children have been rushed to a Toronto hospital after a playground shooting in a Scarborough housing complex.

Paramedics on the scene told CTV News that the children are sisters, ages 5 and 9, but their injuries are no longer life-threatening.

Officers were called to the McCowan Road and Steeles Avenue area in Scarborough around 5 p.m. Thursday. The victims were taken by ambulance to Sick Kids Hospital, nearly 30 kilometres away, in downtown Toronto. Det. Sgt. Jim Gotell called the incident “a very brazen attack on two young girls” and confirmed to reporters that the youngest of the two was in serious condition.

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An ambulance is seen transporting a victim of a Scarborough shooting to SickKids Hospital. (CP24)


Two children have been rushed to a Toronto hospital after a playground shooting in a Scarborough housing complex. (CTV)

Police believe that 11 children were playing in the park when a man stepped out of a car in a nearby parking lot and started firing into the park with a handgun.

“While the gunfire was ongoing, two young girls were shot,” said Gotell, noting that a “male adult” who was in the park is believed to have been the intended target. Police are looking for both the driver of the vehicle and a male suspect who fired the weapon. They are also looking for the intended target who has not come forward to police.

Gotell had a message for the suspects: “We’re coming for them.”

Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford tweeted about the incident Thursday evening. “My thoughts and prayers are with them and their families,” he wrote. “I will be monitoring the situation closely.”

Toronto Mayor John Tory called the incident “a totally unacceptable act of gun violence” in a statement released Thursday.

“I want no stone left unturned in dealing with this,” he continued. “I cannot imagine the anguish the family and friends of the two girls shot while playing in a park are experiencing tonight. This entire city wants these girls to make a full recovery and this entire city wants justice for them.”

Speaking with reporters at the scene, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders called the incident “despicable.”

“Some cowards came into this neighbourhood and opened fire into a playground,” he said. “This act is despicable and rest assured that we’ll put the adequate resources on to resolve this one.”

Police canvassing the neighbourhood and watching video taken at the scene. There are reportedly several surveillance cameras in the area. “We are going to do anything and everything we can to restore safety in this neighbourhood,” said Saunders.

Nurse Stacy London said she had just arrived home from work when the shots rang out. A neighbour rushed up to her for help providing first aid to the victims before paramedics arrived.

“Everyone was around and there (were) two kids on the ground,” she said. “Very small kids.”

Neighbours were using napkins to try to stop the bleeding. London told CTV News that one child was shot in the leg and a second child shot in the abdomen. A third child received an “extremely minor” injury unrelated to a gunshot, officials said.

One witness told CP24 that he heard eight gunshots. “I thought it was fireworks,” he said, “but at this time of the day, I doubted it.”

Another man told CTV News that he was upstairs in his bedroom when he heard a series of shots. He looked up and saw a car with tinted windows drive away. “I came out and three little ones were hit,” he said. Paramedics confirmed that two children were taken to hospital.

“It’s senseless,” he said.

In response to a question about whether Toronto has a problem with guns, Saunders said there has not been a “tremendous spike” in incidents. “It happens every single year,” he said. “I’m not here to say ‘all is well.’ Anytime that someone is motivated to use a firearm I have great concerns for that.”

Disgusting. Perpetrator is still on the loose. Good news is that no one is confirmed to have died yet.
 
If you read between lines it sounds like some gangbangers bustin caps with illegal black market firearms
 
Political how this is?

Where the perps south asians, or Moslems?

Progressive libs will use this as an excuse to ban guns.


Perhaps thuglife? Thuglife is responsible for many of the shootings in Canada. The slavery that happened in America is clearly the reason why thuglife happens in other countries. What other reason could there be?

 
There is a gang war / drug war going on in Toronto.

A 13 year old has been charged with first degree murder after him and a 17 year old plus one other ran over someone and stabbed them to death recently too.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/boy-1...ter-cyclist-run-down-stabbed-police-1.3975237

Early into the summer. Expect many more incidents like this.

Our police can't card people, cant stop them to search them and only ride in cars. We have no police force on foot. Changes are being made, but they won't happen for a long time. People are allowed to openly drug deal in east side downtown. We have safe injection sites around Moss Park where people sell heroin in the open and nobody cares. This city has a lot to do in terms of cleaning up certain parts that have been neglected for decades. 2 weeks ago we had two guys going around trying to shoot random strangers point blank range in the head but the gun jammed. Again in east side downtown. Toronto is a world class safe city, but do not come to east side downtown. You won't be killed statistically speaking but it's ugly as hell and depressing. It is the wild west. We're too liberal, and the gangsters have more power than the people and the police.
 
Only happened cause the 5 and 9yo weren’t armed. If they’d been packin they could’ve defended themselves.
 
Reading the article, seemed a different dude was the target and those poor girls were hit by misses. Praying they pull through

Seems more gang or personal related than a random public shooting
 
Progressive libs will use this as an excuse to ban guns.


Perhaps thuglife? Thuglife is responsible for many of the shootings in Canada. The slavery that happened in America is clearly the reason why thuglife happens in other countries. What other reason could there be?



Or the right will blame illegals or blacks. We can play this game both ways .
 
There is a gang war / drug war going on in Toronto.

A 13 year old has been charged with first degree murder after him and a 17 year old plus one other ran over someone and stabbed them to death recently too.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/boy-1...ter-cyclist-run-down-stabbed-police-1.3975237

Early into the summer. Expect many more incidents like this.

Our police can't card people, cant stop them to search them and only ride in cars. We have no police force on foot. Changes are being made, but they won't happen for a long time. People are allowed to openly drug deal in east side downtown. We have safe injection sites around Moss Park where people sell heroin in the open and nobody cares. This city has a lot to do in terms of cleaning up certain parts that have been neglected for decades. 2 weeks ago we had two guys going around trying to shoot random strangers point blank range in the head but the gun jammed. Again in east side downtown. Toronto is a world class safe city, but do not come to east side downtown. You won't be killed statistically speaking but it's ugly as hell and depressing. It is the wild west. We're too liberal, and the gangsters have more power than the people and the police.

Why aren't criminals registering their handguns like they're supposed to in Canada?!?
 
Harsher gun laws would have prevented this. We need more background checks, more prohibited guns, more registered guns, more of everything that doesn't have an effect on gang violence.
 
Dear Canada,

Stop trying to be us
-Murica
 
Well Toronto is the Detroit of Canada so it's not like really surprising.
 
Why aren't criminals registering their handguns like they're supposed to in Canada?!?

Good question. Lot's of good church boys who dindu nuffin. A lot of people should register the guns they have, maybe they forget?
 
Good question. Lot's of good church boys who dindu nuffin. A lot of people should register the guns they have, maybe they forget?

Incredible, laws that were supposed to stop shootings aren't being followed by criminals. Who could have seen this one coming?

Registry is a joke.

Money should be spent on fighting crime instead of being spent on making useless gun laws.
 
Scarb life yo.

Doesnt surprise me. Hope the kids pull through. Toronto ghettos can be real shitty, and it does appear a gang war is ongoing. It has reached other cities nearby as well which is horrid.
 
Gotta be a special kind of scumbag to open fire in a playground. Hope they catch him quick.
 
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