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rfmcdonald"2 sought in Osgoode subway shooting," says the Toronto Star.
When I lived at Queen and Dufferin for two and a half years, I regularly disembarked at Osgoode to transfer to the Queen Street West streetcar.
A search is under way for several suspects after a man was shot inside the Osgoode subway station this morning.
Police were called to the station, at University Ave. and Queen St. W., just before 11 a.m. for reports of gunshots.
They arrived to find a 19-year-old man on the central platform with gunshot wounds to his stomach.
The victim was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital. His condition was not immediately released.
Subway service between St. George and Union stations is shut down as police continue their investigation.
One person was taken into custody a short time later near the intersection of Queen St. W. and Spadina Ave., but police did not immediately say whether he was being treated as a suspect.
Members of the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force were called in to search the subway tunnel for more suspects.
“What appears to have happened is a group of young males got off the subway and appear to have gotten in an argument,” said Supt. Hugh Ferguson.
Carrie Wiebe had just made her way off the subway car when she heard three gunshots. “As soon as the doors opened we got off and then there were shots,” she said.
Wiebe, who was on her way to a concert at the Canadian Opera Company, said she first thought the sounds were because of construction. By the time she realized what had happened, several people were running out of the station and toward the southwest corner of University Ave.
Const. Wendy Drummond said police are reviewing TTC security cameras.
Subway service has been replaced with shuttle buses on the University line between St. George and Union stations, said TTC spokesperson Danny Nicholson.
Police are urging anyone who was on a subway train at the time of the shooting to call 52 Division at 416-808-5201.
When I lived at Queen and Dufferin for two and a half years, I regularly disembarked at Osgoode to transfer to the Queen Street West streetcar.
