Gunshots rang out in Scarborough Saturday night killing one man and leaving two others — a man and a woman — injured.
Toronto Police tweeted about the triple shooting shortly after 9 p.m., explaining the violence occurred near Markham and Kingston Rds.
“One male shot in head is unresponsive,” police said. “Another male shot in chest.”
The tweet also states a female suffered a hand injury that may have been the result of a “ricochet.”
About 20 minutes later police confirmed the victim who was shot in his chest died at the scene.
The man who was shot in the head was rushed to a trauma centre by paramedics, police said, adding the woman’s hand injury was treated at the scene.
In the wake of the shooting, officers cordoned off the parking lot out front of Centro Pizza shop — located on the north side of Kingston rd. just west of Markham Rd. — and numerous evidence markers could be seen on the ground.
Officers were scouring the area with help from police dogs in search of two men seen fleeing the scene on foot.
Last year Toronto endured a record high of 492 shootings.
The city’s latest gun violence unfolded four days after innocent 15-year-old Safiullah Khosrawi was shot to death walking home from high school at Markham and Ellesmere Rds. — about four kilometres north of the triple shooting.
Meanwhile, police also revealed Saturday that a 23-year-old woman who was attacked and stabbed Wednesday night by a man as she walked along a pathway near York University — northwest of Keele St. and Finch Ave. W. — was actually also shot in the ordeal.
The victim suffered life-threatening injuries and remains in hospital.
No arrests have been made in the woman’s attack, the deadly triple shooting or Khosrawi’s murder.
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