[URBAN NOTE] Busy week
Jul. 21st, 2008 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldFrom the Canadian Press:
The shooting deaths of three men early Sunday brought the number of murders in Toronto last week to six, the same week Statistics Canada released data saying the city was the safest in the country.
The three men found sitting in an SUV in the city's west end were probably victims of gang violence, police said.
It was a particularly violent weekend with a 28-year-old gunned down inside an east-end club Saturday morning.
He was killed after more than a dozen shots were fired inside the club, an attack that sent panicked club goers into a stampede to escape.
A 64 year old was stabbed to death earlier in the week and a 17-year-old was shot in the city's east end, in an attack linked to an earlier shooting in the same building which left a man in critical condition.
Sunday's shootings take the city's murder toll this year to 35.
Forty-one people were murdered at the same time last year. [My emphasis]
