'Cowards' shoot up neighbourhood again
Bullets flew in Lawrence Heights again yesterday afternoon as gun-toting thugs shot up a house just steps away from where a man was badly wounded in a broad daylight shooting eight days earlier.But Toronto Police say they don't believe the two shootings are connected.
Officers flooded the area around the home at 47 Flemington Rd. -- northeast of Dufferin St. and Lawrence Ave. W. -- after the 2 p.m. shooting and found the boulevard and street out front littered with empty shell casings.
"More cowards putting innocent people's lives in danger," Sgt. John Irwin, of 32 Division, said at the scene.
He said it appears three or four young men let loose a barrage of gunfire, leaving a car in the driveway riddled with bullet holes and a screendoor window shattered.
"Then they jumped into a car and took off, firing more shots into the air as they drove up the street," Irwin said.
One man was inside the home taking a shower but wasn't injured.
Neighbours said they heard upwards of 20 shots.
"It's scary," one woman, who lives a few doors away and didn't want her name used, said as she looked out to see her street lined with police cruisers.
Her son often visits the home that was shot up and when she heard the gunfire yesterday, she was terrified he may have been killed. "I thought for sure that my son was there and that he was dead."
She and other neighbours said a woman and her four grown sons live at the home. Irwin said the house is a "hangout" for many youths.
On July 15, a gunman fired as many as 20 shots at a 38-year-old as he rode a bike through the neighbourhood.
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