AAFI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-01 published
Gunfire outbreak yields six casualties in 10 days
By Tim SHUFELT,
Page A9
The shooting of Munit
WALIA on Monday in the city's west end
capped off a 10-day outbreak of fatal gunfire, pushing the number
of gun-related homicides to levels not seen since the so-called
"year of the gun" in 2005.
Police found Mr.
WALIA, 27, around 9 p.m. in his car suffering
from multiple gunshot wounds in the Martingrove Road and Finch
Avenue West area. He was taken to Saint Michael's Hospital where
he was pronounced dead. Police are now investigating whether
he uttered the names of his attackers in the voice mail message
he was leaving his pregnant girlfriend moments before he was
shot.
Nobody has yet been charged in the death of Mr.
WALIA, as is
the case in four of the six shooting fatalities in the last 10 days.
The killing of Kimel
FOSTER, 21, outside the Town Talk Restaurant and
Bar near Vaughan Road and Oakwood Avenue, kicked off a bloody
weekend in the early morning hours of July 21. Mr.
FOSTER died
from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, while
a second victim survived.
The next morning, 11-year-old Ephraim
BROWN died from a bullet
to the neck, followed by the separate shootings of Shawn
JAMES
and Amin AAFI.
First-degree murder charges were laid against
two people last week in the death of Mr.
JAMES, 31, who police
say was killed by shots fired from the window of a Beck taxicab
near Wellesley and Sherbourne Streets. Police are still searching
for a third suspect.
Mr. AAFI, 24, arrived at hospital after shots rang out in Flirt
Lounge in the nightclub district. He died from a single gunshot
wound, while a second man was treated at hospital for a shot
to the leg.
The next casualty was 25-year-old Michael
GEORGE, described as
a well-liked aspiring rapper, who was targeted as he exited his
car in the Meadowvale Road and Finch Avenue West area on Sunday.
Mr. GEORGE was not known to police.
In addition to the arrests stemming from the death of Mr.
JAMES,
police have also charged two people with first-degree murder
in the Ephraim
BROWN case. The other homicides are under investigation
and police are searching for suspects.
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