Toronto driver accused of firing twice with shotgun in "unprovoked attack"

A Toronto driver opened fire with a rifle last weekend after getting angry at the way a pedestrian nearby was watching, police said, leaving two people injured [19659002]. injured and so was a 69-year-old man who was cycling, police said. Both have received medical attention and should survive.

The driver left the scene. A 21-year-old woman was arrested a day later and faces a long list of charges, including attempted murder.

"It's an unprovoked attack" Officer Jenifferjit Sidhu said Tuesday. According to the police, the three people involved in the incident gathered on Shuter and George Streets, an intersection on the east side of downtown Toronto, around Friday at 1am. What caused the explosion of violence remains unclear, but the police say that it seems that the driver was irritated by the behavior of the pedestrian and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Moments later, the driver left her vehicle. pulled what the police described as a "two-foot-long black rifle" from his trunk and opened fire "nearby".

"Very disturbing, very brazen and very violent," said Constable Sidhu. "Fortunately, in this incident, these are life-threatening injuries." But the 21-year-old woman was shot in the chest while the man, who was right in the area, was was wounded by an arm bullet, so it is very worrying and alarming. "

Like the April attack, in which a driver wielding a van mowed down dozens of people and makes 10 deaths, the weekend incident is treated as a criminal act and not related to traffic.

The number of incidents related to shooting in Toronto has increased until now this year compared to 2017. City police statistics record a total of 208 incidents up to the 1st July.

An arrest on Friday the incident occurred just after 15:30 on Saturday morning, less than 27 hours after firing. According to the police, they also seized "a quantity of drugs, a large sum of money and drug paraphernalia." A court document claimed that the drug was crack