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Toronto police say shooting deaths of three men was probably gang related |
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Written by THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
A handout photo of shooting victim Aaron MacDonald, 20. Bullets sprayed a Gold SUV early Sunday morning, killing three young male passengers inside, Toronto police said, Sunday July 20, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ HO
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TORONTO - The shooting deaths of three men early Sunday brought the number of murders in Toronto last week to six, the same week Statistics Canada released data saying the city was the safest in the country.
The three men found sitting in an SUV in the city's west end were probably victims of gang violence, police said.
It was a particularly violent weekend with a 28-year-old gunned down inside an east-end club Saturday morning.
He was killed after more than a dozen shots were fired inside the club, an attack that sent panicked club goers into a stampede to escape.
A 64 year old was stabbed to death earlier in the week and a 17-year-old was shot in the city's east end, in an attack linked to an earlier shooting in the same building which left a man in critical condition.
Sunday's shootings take the city's murder toll this year to 35.
Forty-one people were murdered at the same time last year.
Police said the victims of Sunday's triple murder were likely gunned down somewhere else in the city and were driven to the area.
The victims identified as Adrian Bannerman, 29, Aaron MacDonald, 20, and Kurt Charles, 27, all of Toronto, were pronounced dead at the scene early Sunday morning.
Police also said that the men had been in a nightclub earlier in the evening.
"At this point we aren't certain that the shooting took place where the vehicle was located so we're making efforts to locate a shooting scene elsewhere," said Toronto police Homicide Squad Det. Dean Burks as he spoke outside the cordoned-off street in the quiet, residential neighbourhood.
A 911 call was made around 3:40 a.m. telling police that three people were dead inside the vehicle, one passenger in the front seat and two in the back seat.
Burks said the shooting happened from outside the car and a number of bullet holes pierced the vehicle.
There were no eyewitnesses and no one in the neighbourhood heard shots fired.
The driver left the scene of the shooting and police were looking for him.
"We have information that there was another person in the vehicle and we're making efforts to locate that individual," said Burks.
Police were interviewing people Sunday and appealed to anyone who heard gunshots in the neighbourhood or noticed any suspicious activity to call authorities immediately.
A Statistics Canada report released last week said among urban areas of more than 500,000 people, Toronto residents reported fewer crimes per capita in 2007 than their counterparts in Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.
Winnipeg had the country's highest crime rate, followed by Edmonton.
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