Shot fired on Yonge and Alexander at height of busy rush hour

A single shot was fired by an unidentified shooter at the height of rush hour on Sept. 24.  The gunman fled past the Courtyard Marriott hotel after ditching the handgun.  Two people were reported fleeing west of Yonge onto Grosvenor, and were believed to be the intended targets of the attack.

Local resident Duncan McAllister heard the shot from his apartment a block away. “Around 5:30 p.m., I heard what I thought was a car backfiring, and then I realized something was going on when the police arrived on scene.”

Although it appears that no one was injured, it was just one more shooting incident in a city terrorized by out-of-control gun violence, and the continuing lack of political leadership to take control of the situation.