24 Jul 2018

Girl dies after Toronto shooting

From Morning Report, 7:45 am on 24 July 2018

A ten-year-old girl and a young woman aged 18 are the victims of yesterday's shooting rampage in Toronto. As well as the two dead, 14 other people were injured. Police in Toronto are appealing for witnesses to yesterday's armed attack in the city. The gunman opened fire on a busy avenue in Toronto. The gunman died in a confontation with Police, reportedly shooting himself. It all happened in the popular Danforth Avenue area on Sunday evening (local time), when the area was teeming with people. The motive for the shooting is still unclear. There have been 200 shootings this year in Toronto, 20 of them fatal. CBC reporter Tashauna Reid joins us with the latest.