Police seek suspect after teen boy hurt in shooting at Kennedy subway station
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Toronto police are seeking a suspect after a shooting at Kennedy subway station on Monday afternoon that left a teen boy injured.
Police officers from 41 Division were called to the station at 3:05 p.m. for a report of a shooting, according to Insp. Lori Kranenburg.
Officers did not find a victim or evidence of gunfire when they arrived, but about half an hour later, a 16-year-old boy called police to say he had been shot at the station and that he had made his way to a home.
Kranenburg said the boy appeared to have been grazed by a bullet on his stomach and was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police do not know if the suspect and victim knew each other. Kranenburg said police have not determined what led up to the shooting.
Kranenburg said the shooting didn't happen on the subway platform, but "towards the subway level."
She said police are appealing for witnesses and believe the station was "quite busy" at that time of day. Police have spoken to some witnesses already, she added.
"We believe there would have been other people present that witnessed this incident. And police would like to speak with you to get whatever information you have about what you saw today," she said.
The incident prompted the TTC to cut Line 1 subway service between Warden and Kennedy stations and to redirect buses out of Kennedy station to Warden station for about three hours. Buses picked up riders in front of Warden station.
Line 2 subway service between Warden and Kennedy stations and Kennedy station bus service resumed before 6 p.m.
The suspect is described as a male in his late teens or early 20s with average build and average height. It's not known in which direction he was headed after the shooting.
Kranenburg said the police work closely with the TTC to provide security on Toronto's transit system, but both the police and TTC need help from members of the public in gathering information about violent incidents.
"If you see something, say something. Toronto police responds very quickly to these incidents and we take them very seriously," she said.
The shooting comes after a number of violent incidents on TTC property in recent days:
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