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Saturday, June 02, 2012

Eaton Centre Shooting...

Reports emerging out of Toronto that there's been a shooting at the downtown Eaton Centre mall.

I guess now we see how social media impacts an in-progress crime. I'll paste resources below, as well as on my tweetstream - @carmilevy

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Sad.

Update from the Toronto Police 8:50 pm

Constable Victor Kwong has just confirmed the following:
  • At 6:23 pm, police were called in to shooting at food court, lower level, north end of the mall.
  • 8 victims have been identified, with injuries of varying severities. 1 pronounced dead on-scene. 2 in critical condition, 1 life-threatening.
  • Shooter not currently in custody
Update from Toronto Police - Mon. June 04 7:10 a.m.
TPS has announced, via Twitter, that an arrest has been made in the case. No further details released at the time. CTV story here.

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3 comments:

  1. CorvusCorax129:07 PM, June 02, 2012

    watching the news right now...i hope they catch him soon, my heart goes out to the victims and their families

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  2. Lisa Shafer9:16 PM, June 02, 2012

    Terribly sorry.
    It is way, way too much like this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_Square_shooting

    (Yeah, I live in Salt Lake City. We're still feeling the aftermath of "our" mall shooting.)

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  3. David Edward10:24 PM, June 02, 2012

    i clicked on the ad even though i don't shave my legs, is that ok ?

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