Growing gun-for-hire crime trend believed to be behind at least 27 shootings this year in Toronto area.
A few days before York Region police officers thwarted an alleged assassination of a Toronto jail official, someone using the alias “Danny Phantom” allegedly texted two pictures to a contact called “LeBron James.”
The first was a screenshot of a Ministry of Transportation database search showing the jail official’s home address. The second was a photo of the official’s red pickup truck.
The network is believed to be responsible for high-profile shootings in Toronto and the GTA, including a March attack on the U.S.…
Authorities allege Nicholas Bennett, 19, shot at Const. Marc Pinizzotto during a raid at a North York home Thursday morning,…
Toronto police have linked multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March, to complex gun-for-hire networks.
Toronto police say that young people are being hired to carry out and film attacks. The scheme is connected to over 25 shooting…
By the time of driver Sulakshan Selvasingam's murder, the teen was already a veteran hired gun who had engaged in a series of…
Toronto police chief says networks recruiting young adults through encrypted messages and paying them to carry out shootings
