Richmond Hill
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The Gun Went Off and the Man on the Floor Was Never Hit: York Regional Police Charge Four Over the May Avenue Home Invasion, and the One Accused of Firing It Was Already Under a Weapons Prohibition (September 8, 2026)
Follow-up. Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 2:37 p.m. EDT by York Regional Police under occurrence 26-307399, the force’s first written release on a Richmond Hill home invasion Gangland Files covered on September 8 when no release existed. The release corrects the record on one central fact: the victim was not struck by gunfire. On…
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A Thirteen-Year-Old Is on the Charge Sheet and Not One of the Nineteen Counts Is a Weapons Offence: York Regional Police Close Project Howler on Four Toronto Boys Linked to More Than Fifty Break-Ins (September 8, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 10:19 a.m. EDT by York Regional Police. The force’s Hold-Up Unit has charged four Toronto youths and recovered seven stolen vehicles in an investigation it calls Project Howler. Investigators say the file began after dozens of incidents in which suspects entered homes to steal keys for luxury vehicles parked…
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Two Shootings Inside Two Richmond Hill Homes in Twenty-Seven Hours, and York Regional Police Have Published a Written Release on Neither: a Man Is Shot at Yonge and Weldrick on Labour Day Morning and More Than One Suspect Walks Away (September 7, 2026)
Reported Monday, September 7, 2026 at 10:03 a.m. EDT by Jermaine Wilson of CP24. York Regional Police responded at approximately 7 a.m. that morning to the area of Yonge Street and Weldrick Road West in Richmond Hill, where one person was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital in non-life-threatening condition. The force says…
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A Gun Went Off Inside a House at Seven Minutes Past Four in the Morning and the People Who Fired It Walked Away: York Regional Police Work a Richmond Hill Shooting Near Leslie and William F. Bell, and Have Published No Release (September 6, 2026)
Reported Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 7:19 a.m. EDT by Jermaine Wilson of CP24. York Regional Police responded at approximately 4:07 a.m. that morning to the area of Leslie Street and William F. Bell Parkway in Richmond Hill after a shooting inside a residence. One victim was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The force…
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Three Arsons, One Business, Eight Days: York Regional Police Publish a Serial Firebombing File Out of a Richmond Hill Plaza in Which Every Vehicle Used Was Stolen and Nobody Has Been Charged (August 27, 2026)
York Regional Police published this file on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 12:39 p.m. The #2 District Criminal Investigations Bureau is appealing for witnesses after three arsons at the same commercial business at a plaza in the area of Leslie Street and East Wilmot Street in Richmond Hill. On August 19 at about 5:15 a.m.…