Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Shooting at Wellington+Bay
its 9am, i just got off the Go train, to find that bay+wellington is completly blocked off. i walk over to young, and through BCE place over to Bay to get a look(i work at BCE Place) cops everywhere.
turn on CP24, a man had taken a women hostage after shooting another women earlier.
the cops did not do as good a job as the media stated about blocking off the area, because when i was on Bay peopl were still wlking around, and at this point the gun man had not been taken down.
Aug-25-2004 13:05
starsearcher
DigitalPunk on Flight643
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto
Wow...some crazy shit...what's the cause of this mad rage?? What's going on lately in TO anyways...why so much violence?
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
they gun men was shot, taken down, and the second hostage was fine. shaken but fine
i know its crazy, especially cause i was looking around and it was happening, but i still didnt see anything.
Aug-25-2004 13:14
Jayx1
Prime Minister of TOTA
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: The Socialist People's Republic Of Canada
they just shot the bastard and hes dead...
well at least he wont be back out after 4 years.
Fuck people... keep your shit in regent park for god sake!
Aug-25-2004 13:27
starsearcher
DigitalPunk on Flight643
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto
quote:
Man shot to end armed standoff in downtown Toronto
Last Updated Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:33:54 EDT
TORONTO - Police in Toronto shot and killed a man who was holding a woman hostage outside Toronto's Union Station on Wednesday morning.
The man, armed with a gun, took a woman hostage outside the train station minutes after a woman was shot in a nearby food court.
The shooting victim was taken to hospital. Her condition wasn't immediately known.
The standoff outside the train station lasted for about half an hour before police apparently shot and killed the man at about 8:55 a.m.
The hostage-taker was reportedly agitated and moving erratically before he was hit by a single shot to the head from a police sharpshooter.
The hostage being held in front of Union Station in downtown Toronto.
The hostage ran then toward police. She was apparently unharmed.
Police quickly swarmed the fallen man. Emergency workers quickly covered him with a sheet.
Police had cordoned off an area in front of the downtown transportation hub as thousands of workers streamed off commuter trains during the morning rush hour.
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Berkeley, California
And I took today off from work... and I work right there, would have been *interesting* to see
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Aug-25-2004 14:45
trancechaos
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Registered: Not Yet
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fuckin cocks, why does shit like this have to happen. its scary to know that something like that can happen at union at that time of the day, imagine all the commuters, thats fucked up, i hope the woman that was shot is ok now. fuck this just makes me soooo mad for some reason.
RJ put on the superman costume and protect the weak and innocent
Aug-25-2004 15:38
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
quote:
Originally posted by trancechaos
RJ put on the superman costume and protect the weak and innocent
Glad the women are ok.
I'm just glad the guy got taken down. Perhaps this will provide an example for others who want to cause problems.
Getting to work this morning was a nightmare - they had the off-ramps on the Gardnier closed as a result and I had to find alternate parking (as the area where my parking is) was closed off.
Dark Dirty Tech Tribal. | Hands in air (trance) and feet on the floor (house).
Aug-25-2004 15:42
torontotrance
I hath returned
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Toronto
I give full marks to the police force and emergency crews for this situation. THey did not start it but they dealt with what happened. They tried to solve the situation and the man got threatening towards the police and the sharpshooter ended his life with one shot. Only person that was hurt was the gunman and it turns out the person that he originally shot but no one in the public was hurt besides that. Well done to the police force who put their lives on the line, day in and day out.
Aug-25-2004 15:58
E2EK1EL
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Wellington ... what's up with this area ? This summer, it's getting seriously sketched out and dangerous.
