Here's a strange story. Some teens are "playing with their guns" and six end up shot. Good. Six armed morons are now off the streets.
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TheStar.com - GTA - Six shot in North York housing complex
March 14, 2008
ROBYN DOOLITTLE
BRETT POPPLEWELL
Staff reporters
Six men were shot — two with life-threatening injuries — in a North York housing complex just before 10 p.m. Friday.
According to initial reports one person is dead.
One resident said he heard that the men were “playing with their guns” when the gunfire broke out. Another suggested the incident may have been triggered when one gun accidentally fired, prompting others in the group to return gunfire.
Other area residents say the same group of teens frequently hang out at the north-end of the complex, and the youths are known to carry handguns.
Hassan Ainanshe was at work when he heard shooting had broken out next to his home, and rushed back to check on his teenage sons.
“Before it was The Jungle, but we cleaned it up,” said Ainanshe, who moved here from Somalia five years ago. “It’s safe now — nothing like this has happened before.”
Two of the teens were rushed to Sunnybrook trauma centre, and police officers on the scene released few details.
After the shooting, shocked residents gathered outside the two-storey garden homes as police dog handlers went over the area looking for evidence.
Officers also stopped passing cars on Flemington Rd., near Yorkdale mall, as they canvassed for witnesses.
Halima Mohamoud, who lives on Edengarth Court, where someone was killed within the past two years, said “it’s very scary, especially when you have kids.”
Mohamoud, the mother of five children said “someone was killed in the court here just last year.”
Mohamoud, who has lived in the complex for two years, said she heard shots fired and then, when she looked out her window, saw what appeared to be bodies across the playground from her house.
Residents in several homes peeked through blankets being used as make-shift drapes, while others clustered in doorways as they sought information about the shootings.
jwm
TheStar.com - GTA - Six shot in North York housing complex
March 14, 2008
ROBYN DOOLITTLE
BRETT POPPLEWELL
Staff reporters
Six men were shot — two with life-threatening injuries — in a North York housing complex just before 10 p.m. Friday.
According to initial reports one person is dead.
One resident said he heard that the men were “playing with their guns” when the gunfire broke out. Another suggested the incident may have been triggered when one gun accidentally fired, prompting others in the group to return gunfire.
Other area residents say the same group of teens frequently hang out at the north-end of the complex, and the youths are known to carry handguns.
Hassan Ainanshe was at work when he heard shooting had broken out next to his home, and rushed back to check on his teenage sons.
“Before it was The Jungle, but we cleaned it up,” said Ainanshe, who moved here from Somalia five years ago. “It’s safe now — nothing like this has happened before.”
Two of the teens were rushed to Sunnybrook trauma centre, and police officers on the scene released few details.
After the shooting, shocked residents gathered outside the two-storey garden homes as police dog handlers went over the area looking for evidence.
Officers also stopped passing cars on Flemington Rd., near Yorkdale mall, as they canvassed for witnesses.
Halima Mohamoud, who lives on Edengarth Court, where someone was killed within the past two years, said “it’s very scary, especially when you have kids.”
Mohamoud, the mother of five children said “someone was killed in the court here just last year.”
Mohamoud, who has lived in the complex for two years, said she heard shots fired and then, when she looked out her window, saw what appeared to be bodies across the playground from her house.
Residents in several homes peeked through blankets being used as make-shift drapes, while others clustered in doorways as they sought information about the shootings.
