Crime

… Toronto Mayor John Tory described the shooting as “irresponsible, outrageous behaviour” during an interview with CP24 on Sunday morning.

“There is no other way to put it,” said an exasperated Tory who urged anyone with information to come forward and speak to the police.

“I don’t know why anybody in the city of Toronto needs to have a handgun of any kind — and then of course using them in a circumstance like this or anywhere. For that matter, but around children. I mean, who does that?” he said.

As usual Ban E’m All Tory makes no distinction between criminals using guns and law abiding legal gun owners, what a twit.

Five people, including three children, have been injured in a shooting in Etobicoke, Toronto paramedics say.

Emergency crews were called to the area of Tandridge Crescent and Byng Avenue, west of Albion Avenue, just before 8 p.m. Saturday for reports of shots fired.

That area is social housing so no doubt legal gun owners are responsible.

The best policy to prevent a vicious circle of gang vendettas is to empower law enforcement to send violent criminals to jail.

Murders and non-fatal shootings have been soaring in cities across the United States. One reason is a phenomenon that police refer to as “ping pong murders”—a cycle of retaliatory violence that can spiral out of control. Before that happens, public officials must take quick and decisive action to cut the cycle off.

Honey Sherman had no will. Barry had two. Most of the slain billionaire’s estate is wrapped up in his private companies and, so, documents unsealed by a court Friday list assets of just $124 million.

That was what the judge who sealed the Sherman estate files in 2018 referred to in open court as “chump change” for wealthy people like the Shermans. Barry was the founder and owner of Apotex, a generic pharmaceutical giant. His wife Honey was, like Barry, a well known philanthropist.

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted sealing orders on the estate files of slain billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman in a unanimous decision, paving the way for the Toronto Star to access the files and capping off a three-year legal battle.

The couple was found killed in their Toronto home in 2017 — a high-profile case in which police have never named suspects or publicly revealed a possible motive.

The court files involve the last will and testament of Barry Sherman, the billionaire founder of generic drug giant Apotex, and the estate of his wife, Honey. (It is not known if she had a will.)

The lone full-time detective on the case told a Toronto courtroom in May that police have been pursuing a single “theory of the case” since four months after the murders.

Two men have been arrested while a third suspect remains outstanding after a shooting at a restaurant in Mississauga in May that left a man dead and four others injured.

On the evening of May 29, police said an unknown man entered the Chicken Land restaurant located in the area of The Collegeway and Glen Erin Drive and opened fire at staff.

OTTAWA — New details about the man accused of intentionally driving his truck into a family in London, Ont., killing four, are emerging from court documents in which his parents reportedly describe him as “peculiar and challenging.”

Nathaniel Veltman, 20, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for driving his Dodge pickup truck into a Muslim family walking on a downtown London street Sunday night.