A six-year-old boy and his mother were 'exactly in the line of gunfire' as Toronto rapper Houdini was shot to death during an 'active gunfight' on a downtown sidewalk in broad daylight.
TORONTO -- A six-year-old boy and his mother were "exactly in the line of gunfire" as Toronto rapper Houdini was shot to death in broad daylight, a homicide detective said Thursday.
The bullets “skipped off the ground,” Singh added, “inches from not only the little boy, but also the mother.”23 shots were fired on busy downtown sidewalkbetween two groups just outside of the Bisha Hotel & Residences along Blue Jays Way, just north of King Street West, as many passersby, including the young boy and mother, watched and screamed.Some of those who knew him said he had a “very promising future in music.
A suspect vehicle, a rented blue Volkswagen Tiguan, was “lying in wait” for 40 minutes before Jenkins and the three others emerge in the area, police said. The same Volkswagen Tiguan was found torched in York Region late Wednesday night. It is now being forensically analyzed. An innocent bystander, a 27-year-old woman, was also hit by gunfire during the shooting. She is not seen in any of the surveillance footage released by police on Thursday. She is also expected to survive.Along with the 27-year-old woman, the six-year-old boy and the child’s mother, many innocent passersby were out on the downtown street on that Tuesday afternoon.
“We’re hoping that the public will see this heart-wrenching video, and specifically to the members that were in that vehicle, this is unacceptable, we had a very young family, specifically a six-year-old boy, who was in the area of this specific gunfire and this gunfight that occurred, many causalities could have occurred,” Singh said.Suspects have ‘no care in the world’
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