Toronto Police were called after 4 p.m. to King and Peter Sts. where the the man and the teen had been shot in what appears to be a targeted shooting.
The woman, 27, was an innocent bystander, according to police.
“We don’t know where the victims were coming from. There were walking in two groups of two,” Saunders told a news conference Tuesday on the street near the shooting scene.
“As they crossed on to the west side of the curb, that is when the suspect vehicle made a U-turn and engaged in firing.”
Sanders described the shooting as “brazen,” and insisted it “is a very solvable crime.”
He said police have recovered one firearm and were searching for suspects in a blue vehicle.
Details on the identities of the shooting victims and the medical condition of the two people who were wounded were not released. But reports on social media identified the dead man as a local rapper named Houdini.
“By all indications it looks like the female who was shot has absolutely nothing to do with this, absolutely nothing,” he said.
“Just standing there and because of the suspect just shooting randomly an innocent person was caught in that crossfire.”
Saunders noted investigators will have access to images from video cameras in the area.
Toronto Councillor Joe Cressy, who represents the area where the shooting took place, expressed his disappointment on Twitter.
“A 16-year-old is dead and our vibrant downtown community shaken,” Cressy wrote. “While Toronto Police Services investigates and our city’s crisis response team mobilizes to support those affected, collectively as a city we we must all loudly reject this violence and work to stop it.”
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