Gun Violence
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Casings on the Road and a House Hit From the Street at Five Past Midnight: Durham Police Call the Dooley Crescent File a Drive-By and Publish It Two Days Later With No Suspect (Reported August 25, 2026)
Durham Regional Police published this file on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, two days after the incident. At approximately 12:05 a.m. on Sunday, August 23, 2026, members of West Division responded to an armed person call in the area of Dooley Crescent and Biggs Drive in Ajax after reports of gunshots. Officers located several shell casings…
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A Woman From Lévis, a Seventeen-Year-Old, and One Count Each of First-Degree Murder: Véronique Giroux Is Arraigned Over the Henri-Julien Killing and Two Newsrooms Name Two Different Gangs (Originally Reported August 24, 2026)
This file was first reported on Monday, August 24, 2026 by La Presse and Le Journal de Montreal and is not a story that broke today. Veronique Giroux, a woman in her mid-thirties who lives in Levis, and a 17-year-old boy appeared Monday morning at the Montreal courthouse, each charged with the first-degree murder of…
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Six Counts, House Arrest and a GPS Bracelet: The Crown Asks a Superior Court Judge to Undo the Bail of Zara Jabbi, 19, in the U.S. Consulate Shooting, With a Ruling Due Thursday (Originally Reported August 24, 2026)
This file was first reported on Monday, August 24, 2026 by Global News and is not a story that broke today. A Crown prosecutor spent Monday in front of a Superior Court judge arguing that Zara Jabbi, 19, should never have been let out. Jabbi is one of two men Toronto police allege fired on…
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Twenty-Two Years Before Parole for Two Deaths at a Fort Erie House Party: Justice James Ramsey Sentences Christopher Lucas, 27, and Finds All Thirteen Remaining Guests Perjured Themselves (August 24, 2026)
Justice James Ramsey sentenced Christopher Lucas, 27, of Toronto late on the afternoon of Monday, August 24, 2026 at Welland Superior Court to 22 years of parole ineligibility for the second-degree murders of Juliana Pannunzio, 20, of Essex and Christine Crooks, 18. The killings occurred at a house party in Fort Erie, Ontario on January…
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Killed at the Wheel on Henri-Julien at a Quarter to Noon: A 17-Year-Old Is Taken Into Custody at the Scene and the Dead Man, 22, Is Placed by Police Sources Inside The New Generation (Reported August 20, 2026)
First reported Thursday, August 20, 2026. Jean-Christophe Desrosiers, 22, a resident of Quebec City, was shot at the wheel of a pickup truck on Henri-Julien Avenue near Carmel Avenue in Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough at about 11:45 a.m. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and died. A 17-year-old male was arrested at the scene…
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Rounds Through the Walls With People Still Inside: Hamilton Police Say Two Vehicles Left Greendale Drive at Speed, and It Is the City’s 19th Shooting of 2026 (August 22, 2026)
Hamilton Police say officers were called to Greendale Drive at approximately 10:45 p.m. Friday, August 21, for reports of shots fired, and found multiple shell casings along with several bullet strikes to a residence. Several rounds penetrated the home while occupants were inside. Nobody was injured. Investigators obtained video surveillance showing two vehicles leaving the…
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The 112th Crime Gun of the Year Came Out of a Car on Cedarbrook Road: Peel Police Charge Three Men After a 2:20 a.m. Brampton Traffic Stop, One of Them Wanted in Alberta (August 22, 2026)
Peel Regional Police announced Saturday that 21 Division investigators seized a loaded illegal handgun with a tampered serial number during an August 10 traffic stop near Cedarbrook Road and Edgewater Court in Brampton, bringing the force’s crime-gun count for 2026 to 112. Officers found three occupants in the vehicle; one gave a false name and…
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Two Shootings, Four and a Half Hours, One Corner of Rexdale: A House Shot Up on Humberline at 3 a.m., a Man Shot at Kipling and Finch at 7:37 (August 18, 2026)
Toronto Police responded to two shootings in north Etobicoke within four and a half hours on Tuesday morning. At 3:05 a.m. officers found evidence of gunfire at Finch Avenue West and Humberline Drive, with a house and several parked vehicles damaged and nobody hurt. At 7:37 a.m., roughly two kilometres west at Kipling and Finch,…
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Four Months and Five Guns Later: Peel Police Charge Five — Including Two 17-Year-Olds — in the Brampton Schoolyard Double Homicide (August 17, 2026)
Peel Regional Police announced Monday that three adults and two youths have been arrested and charged over the April 3 shooting that killed two males on school grounds near Rutherford Road and Kennedy Road in Brampton. Jahnoi Bell, 21, and one 17-year-old each face two counts of first-degree murder; the second 17-year-old faces two murder…
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Eight Days Before the Public Heard: Ottawa Police Confirm a Targeted Vanier Shooting That Put a Teenager in Hospital (August 13, 2026)
Ottawa police disclosed Thursday that officers responded to reports of multiple gunshots at a Belisle Street residence in Vanier around 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 5. A teenaged male was treated for a gunshot wound and taken to hospital in serious but stable condition. Police believe the shooting was targeted. No suspects are in custody.