[URBAN NOTE] More street violence
Jul. 17th, 2008 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe people I spoke to were right.
By the Way Café, located on 400 Bloor Street West in the middle of The Annex neighbourhood, isn't a place that I think I've ever eaten at, denizen of "Annex boulevardiers, academics and bon vivants bask in the leisurely pace of this quaint corner bistro, pleasantly conversing over Middle Eastern-inspired dishes as the Bloor crowd buzzes by" though it might be. I've certainly passed it innumerable times.
How did I get involved? I was walking west along Bloor Street West when, after I crossed Spadina Avenue, I began to hear sirens and see ambulances and police cars moving about. People were starting to crush together for a view, and I asked some people what had happened. Finally, at the corner of Bloor and Bathurst, I came across two people who saw something.
- They were standing in front of the CIBC [at the corner of Bloor and Bathurst], and they shot a guy in front of the By the Way cafe. He didn't look good, his friend who was holding him was crying.
I'm sure that we'll be hearing more of this later. Things like this just aren't supposed to happen, certainly not in The Annex. At least I was ten minutes too late, this time, to get interviewed by the police.
Somebody got shot at the By The Way Cafe in the Annex.
Six gunshots heard at 10:55 pm from outside our window. There's a crowd outside in shock.
Edit: 2 people shot and the ETF just arrived.
By the Way Café, located on 400 Bloor Street West in the middle of The Annex neighbourhood, isn't a place that I think I've ever eaten at, denizen of "Annex boulevardiers, academics and bon vivants bask in the leisurely pace of this quaint corner bistro, pleasantly conversing over Middle Eastern-inspired dishes as the Bloor crowd buzzes by" though it might be. I've certainly passed it innumerable times.
How did I get involved? I was walking west along Bloor Street West when, after I crossed Spadina Avenue, I began to hear sirens and see ambulances and police cars moving about. People were starting to crush together for a view, and I asked some people what had happened. Finally, at the corner of Bloor and Bathurst, I came across two people who saw something.
- They were standing in front of the CIBC [at the corner of Bloor and Bathurst], and they shot a guy in front of the By the Way cafe. He didn't look good, his friend who was holding him was crying.
I'm sure that we'll be hearing more of this later. Things like this just aren't supposed to happen, certainly not in The Annex. At least I was ten minutes too late, this time, to get interviewed by the police.
