POLICE are searching for two shooters and a getaway car involved in shooting of 14-year-old. CTV News.
CAR with bullet hole found at scene of the shooting.
Police from 22 Division are searching the area for shooters and a getaway car after a 14-year-old boy escaped being killed and was wounded in the leg in the Garnett Janes Road area of South Etobicoke on April 17.
The high-risk area is well-known to police and has been linked to about four shootings so far this year. Local officers have been working to make inroads into the crimes in the area.
Officers said on Saturday they were called to a park near Garnett Janes Road, in the area of Islington Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd. W., just before 6 p.m. following reports of multiple gunshots allegedly from parties firing at each other.
The injured teen was found by police suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg.
He was transported by paramedics to a local hospital suffering from serious but non-life threatening injuries. His condition has since been updated to stable.
Const. Laura Brabant said the boy was driving with his family in the area when gunfire erupted.
It is believed that occupants of two vehicles were shooting at each other.
The vehicles involved in the shooting fled the area before police arrived. Police said they are looking for multiple suspects, but no descriptions have been released.
It is believe the boy was an innocent bystander and was not involved in the incident. A white vehicle belonging to his family was found with a bullet hole on the passenger side.
Police said they are searching for a vehicle that was seen fleeing the area just after the shooting.
Officers are in the Garnett Janes area on a weekly basis responding to incidents.
In one incident in July last year an Uber Eats driver was among two men shot at the buildings.
Police at the time said the Uber driver was making a delivery when his was vehicle was fired upon.
The driver suffered a life-altering injury to his eye and it is not known if he will be able to drive again. No arrests were made in that shooting, or some of the other incidents.
Residents of Garnett Janes have repeatedly complained to 22 Division police of the shootings in their area.