The coroner sat this one out.
Two triggermen had tried to add a quintet of fresh corpses to the city’s 2019 roster of the dead but happily, their aim was lousy.
According to cops, five teens were cut down in a “targeted” shooting at an apartment complex at 79 Clearview Heights Rd. in North York around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.
They were doing what teens do: Hanging around shooting the breeze, smoking cigarettes.
The conversations would end in a gasp. And screams.
A trio of males arrived in a black sedan and slipped into the 1950s era apartment building through a side door cops said.
When they spotted their quarry, they opened fire.
Two triggermen unleashed at least 20 bullets in the stairwell of the apartment building if the shell casings collected by detectives are any indication.
Surveillance video tells the chilling tale.
Two young triggermen are captured in their parkas blasting away in the stairwells of the three-storey brick apartment. Casings are flying everywhere.
Like kids blasting each other with water guns on a glorious summer day. That blase. That banal. That cold.
And the victims were young: Two females, 16 and 17, and three males — all between 16 and 18.
Thankfully, all are expected to survive.
Cops, politicians, community activists and social workers will again be warbling the classic blockbuster: Someone should do something.
On Thursday, the street was quiet. The cops were gone now and residents were again left to their own devices.
Strands of yellow police tape were the only evidence that death came calling and had been denied.
“This has been going on a lot lately,” said Gary, a neighbour who didn’t want his last name used.
“It’s not shocking. There have been three shootings over the past year.”
He has lived in the area for the past two years. Despite the murderous proximity, he doesn’t worry, after all, the shootings tend to be targeted.
“It’s just childish stuff, someone steps on someone’s shoes … and it’s BOOM!,” Gary said.
“It’s kids shooting kids.”
Asked if they shouldn’t be playing baseball, hoops or road hockey, Gary laughs sourly: “They weren’t taught that way.”
Next door to the shooting scene is Coronation Park. There are a lot of younger kids in the area.
“That’s what really scares me. What if a little kid gets hit by a stray bullet? That’s what bothers me.”
Cops say the shooters were males, probably in their late teens or early 20s. They wore dark-coloured clothing. And hoodies. Natch.
At the crime scene Wednesday night, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders appealed to the public for help in nabbing the thugs responsible.
“We’re making this appeal with the hopes that we can apprehend these people before any future gun violence happens in our city,” he said.
Too late.
Not far away at 9:30 a.m. Thursday there was another shooting in the Jane St.-Trethewey Dr. area.
Three men approached a parked car and opened fire. Cops say a 29-year-old man went to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
But make no mistake, the coroner is on the bench. And waiting.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-1200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
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