North York crash ends with one driver shot, unrelated driver hurt after altercation sparks car chase
Officers responded to the collision near Stanley Greene and Downsview Park boulevards Wednesday afternoon. Police said it’s unclear if the man was shot before or after the crash.
A car chase ended in a collision with one man shot and an unrelated driver injured in North York on Wednesday.
Officers responded to reports of a two-vehicle crash near around 1 p.m., ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ police said in a .
When police arrived, they found a man who had been shot, investigators said, adding he was taken to hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
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Supt. Paul MacIntyre said at a news conference Wednesday evening that the crash happened after two men who knew each other got into an altercation at a separate location.Â
“Both of those men then jumped in motor vehicles,” he said, adding they began to “chase” each other.
One of the drivers who was being chased collided with a third unrelated driver, MacIntyre said, noting police found the man with a gun shot wound to the leg. The driver in the crash who is unrelated to the altercation and chase was taken to hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, MacIntyre added.Â
The second driver involved in the chase fled the scene, he added.Â
Investigators are in “the infancy of that investigation” and it’s unclear if the man was shot before or after the collision, MacIntyre said.
It was the first of two “troubling” daylight shootings to happen in the city in the span of a few hours, MacIntyre said, adding that “any shooting is one too many.”
Allie Moustakis is a staff reporter, working out of the Star’s
radio room in ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½. Reach her via email: amoustakis@thestar.ca
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