Boy, 14, charged with 1st-degree murder in Etobicoke mass shooting
CBC
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in a mass shooting that left two men dead and three others injured earlier this month, Toronto police say.
The accused has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder, Det.-Sgt. Phillip Campbell told reporters at a news conference Monday afternoon.
Campbell said the teen was arrested the day after the shooting and charged on Monday after a stolen vehicle investigation. He was scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
"These senseless acts of violence resulted in the deaths of two innocent people and families who will forever be devastated by the loss of their loved ones," Campbell said.
"This was a mass shooting in our city and we now know there are likely individuals out there who can tell us the identities of the other people responsible for these murders."
Five men were shot on the night of June 2 in the parking lot of North Albion Collegiate Institute, a high school in the city's west end near the corner of Mount Olive Drive and Kipling Avenue in Etobicoke.
All five were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. Two have since died. Those who were injured suffered either life-altering or non-life-threatening injuries, police have said.
Investigators have identified the two men who died as Delroy "George" Parkes, 61, formerly of Woodstock, Ont., and Toronto man Seymour Gibbs, 46.
Parkes and Gibbs are the city's 34th and 35th homicide victims of the year.
Hours after the shooting, a stolen truck was found to have hit an empty parked vehicle, Campell said. The driver of the stolen truck tried to flee on foot but was arrested by police after a short chase.
After police investigated, they discovered that the youth was one of the suspects involved in the shooting.
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