TORONTO—A bloody public shooting at a Scarborough block party has stunned the city after a string of similar incidents in previous weeks. The gunfight was the fourth public shooting of the summer in the Greater Toronto Area.
At 10:40 p.m. on Monday, Toronto Police received multiple calls about a shooting on Danzig Street, near Lawrence Avenue East and Morningside Avenue. They arrived at the scene to find 23 injured and two dead.
The victims were identified as 14-year-old Shyanne Charles from Toronto and 23-year-old Joshua Yasay from Ajax. Both were innocent bystanders killed when perpetrators fired into the crowd, which contained upwards of 100 party-goers.
Police Chief Bill Blair said at a media conference on Tuesday that the shooting originated from an altercation involving two individuals that escalated.
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