Crime

If he wants to remain an ambassador to Toronto and keep the key to the city Mayor John Tory bestowed upon him, rapper Drake must decide if he’s pro law and order or pro crime, the Toronto Police Association president says.Toronto’s chief of police also weighed in Saturday, saying the move potentially raises “real concerns” over the music sensation’s values.All this was in reaction to a Sun about an Instagram photo of the superstar performer wearing a Hells Angels supporter hoodie. Toronto hip-hop superstar Drake wears a Hells Angels support hoodie in a photo posted on fellow rapper Travis Scott’s Instagram on Aug. 21, 2018. (Instagram) TPA boss Mike McCormack called the decision “bad judgement” and a slap in the face to law and order professionals.“He can legally wear suppor

TORONTO — A man in his 30s has died after a stabbing in northwest Toronto.Emergency crews were called to Weston Rd. near Lawrence Ave. W. around 5 a.m. on Friday.Paramedics say the unidentified victim suffered multiple stab wounds and died in hospital.One person who witnessed the incident told a Toronto radio station that the victim got off a public transit bus and was ambushed by the attacker, who then stabbed him multiple times. A Toronto Police officer at the scene of a fatal stabbing on Weston Rd. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. Two knives and paramedic material can be seen on the roadway. (Kevin Connor/Toronto Sun) The witness said the victim tried to run away but collapsed.Police have not released any suspect information.Weston Rd. from Lawrence southbound to Bellevue was closed fo

Toronto Police made a quick arrest and recovered a firearm after a man was shot in St. James Town late Tuesday.Just before midnight, officers received reports of multiple gunshots in the Wellesley and Ontario Sts. area. They found an unconscious man with a gunshot wound to his neck.“Officers were first on scene and the man was bleeding from the neck. They had to apply pressure to the wound and waited for paramedics to arrive,” Const. Jen Sidhu said Wednesday.Information from the public led police to a man, who then fled on foot.Sidhu says the man ran into a residential backyard and police set up a perimeter using the canine unit in a “high-risk take down.”The man was arrested and a firearm, which was a loaded Smith and Wesson 9-mm pistol, was allegedly recovered.Keeron Tash

Emergency crews are attending a multiple shooting in front of a bar in Greektown.A little before 10:20 p.m., police, fire and EMS were dispatched to near Christina’s restaurant on Danforth Ave. by Logan Ave. for reports of a shooting.Numerous ambulances were dispatched to the scene, where police, firefighters and bystanders attended to a number of victims seen laying on the ground.According to witnesses speaking to CityTV, at least two of the victims were young females.who reported that EMS transported at least eight patients to hospital — six to trauma centres at St. Michael’s and Sunnybrook, and one to Sick Kids.Reports on social media say as many as 15 to 20 gunshots were heard.Freelance journalist Andrew Collins reports on Twitter that patients were transported to traum