A teen has been critically injured in a taking pictures on Monday night time in north-west Toronto.
Responsibility Insp. Brian Maslowski mentioned officers attended the world simply earlier than 6:25 p.m. after a number of residents known as police to report listening to the sound of gunshots close to Clearview Heights and Tretheway Drive, which is north of Eglinton Avenue West and east of Black Creek Drive.
He mentioned on the scene, police positioned a teen with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
The sufferer was taken to a neighborhood trauma centre for remedy, Maslowski mentioned.
Paramedics advised CP24 that they rushed one particular person to the hospital in severe, however non-life-threatening, situation.
“The data that we’ve got at this level is that this teen was southbound on Clearview Heights, and there was a purple sedan that was northbound on Clearview Heights, and when the purple sedan got here as much as the teenager sufferer and the occupant, or occupants, in that purple sedan began taking pictures on the sufferer,” Maslowski mentioned.
He mentioned that the car’s driver then drove away from the world.
Maslowski mentioned police have no idea the make or mannequin of the purple sedan, which he mentioned has tinted home windows.
“Now we have our a number of groups working after monitoring down this suspect or suspects,” he mentioned, including that each one acceptable sources are being put in direction of discovering the perpetrators on the crime, “and we’ll get them.”
Roads within the neighborhood are closed as police examine.
That is the second taking pictures that occurred in that space in current months. In October, a 26-year-old died after being shot within the stairwell of an condominium constructing on Clearview Heights.
Anybody with informtion is requested to contact police or Crime Stoppers anonymously.
