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Toronto Craziness
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus replied on Wed Aug 25, 2004 @ 8:28pm |
 Coolness: 121005 | woah
Toronto police free woman, kill hostage taker [ CTV.ca ] News Staff Shock, horror and disbelief filled the heart of Toronto's financial district as police ended a hostage taking by shooting the gunman dead. The dramatic and tragic incident was carried live on local TV. It tied up throngs of morning rail commuters at the downtown Union Station, and brought several city blocks to a virtual standstill. The trouble began shortly after 8 a.m. in a food court in the nearby TD Centre office complex. Police were called after a 45-year-old man from the east-end community of Ajax tried to shoot his estranged wife in the head. Police have not released the name of the man, but unofficial reports identified him as Tony Brooks. "He fired shots in her direction but did not hit her," Toronto police said in a statement. "She started to run away but she tripped and fell over. He approached her and started assaulting her." The woman, who was on her way to work, wasn't badly hurt and needed a few stitches to her head. She was being kept in a downtown hospital for observation, police said. Hundreds watched hostage ordeal After that, a police officer spotted the man as he walked away. He ended up grabbing a woman passing by and holding her hostage in front of Union Station. "She didn't really move around, she just did whatever he said," a witness told CTV affiliate CFTO News. Austin Delaney, a reporter for CFTO News, says the suspect was very calm. "He put a shotgun to her head and stood by a hot dog vendor and didn't say really anything to the hostage at all," Delaney said. Reports say all this went on for about 50 minutes. Police yelled "Drop the gun! Drop the gun!" but the man would not comply. "I was dumbfounded. I didn't believe it," said Susan Cormier, who works in a stockbrokers' office. "It's what you see on television. It doesn't happen in real life," she told the Canadian Press. "He just grabbed her," said a newspaper seller called Dave. "Everybody else left the area and more police came." Police opened fire Concerned the situation would escalate and others could be hurt, a police marksman fired. Witnesses said the sharp crack of the shot was clearly audible, and left witnesses in shock as police moved in to secure the area. "I just saw the guy falling down and that was it," a man told CFTO news. "Witnesses told me that he (the hostage-taker) just stepped back for a split second, and the police saw their moment and an officer close by fired the shot," Delaney said. The hostage, a woman in her early 20s whose name was not released, walked away from the scene, traumatized but otherwise unscathed. Police held red sheets around the body to prevent onlookers from seeing the man until he was taken away in an ambulance, at which point fire crews moved in to clean up the area People said it was hard to believe what they'd seen happening. "Like you see (such things) in a movie and you're all cool," one man said. "It's not cool. It's not cool at all." 'No choice,' chief says Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino commended his officers for setting the woman free and ending the crisis. "We had a situation that is very, very volatile, extremely dangerous. There was no choice," Fantino said. Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is looking into what happened. The unit is called in whenever there is serious injury or death involving police. Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, where the man's wife was taken after the first attack, released a statement from her family asking for privacy. "We came close to losing a family member. We are asking that you respect our privacy at this time. Our main concern is for our family member to get the appropriate care." Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty expressed relief that the hostage was unharmed. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lady replied on Wed Aug 25, 2004 @ 9:08pm |
 Coolness: 182500 | i decided they have funny looking cows |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Wed Aug 25, 2004 @ 10:18pm |
 Coolness: 276405 | Was he black? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Wed Aug 25, 2004 @ 11:42pm |
 Coolness: 68945 | yeah he was black |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 12:27am |
| Coolness: 276405 | oh.. I was trying to be silly. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ashtraygirl replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 1:07am |
 Coolness: 89455 | way to be racially insensitive katie.
you bitch. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flatlinedive replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 1:21am |
 Coolness: 63875 | today was a crazy day in the news |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 10:17am |
 Coolness: 471775 | as always
they just choose what to tell us everyday's crazy |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 12:23pm |
| Coolness: 276405 | IM SOOOOWAAAYYYY!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flatlinedive replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 5:34pm |
| Coolness: 63875 | Originally posted by G-SPY...
as always they just choose what to tell us everyday's crazy i completely agree |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 5:40pm |
| Coolness: 71405 | what the fuck do people learn about people crashing getting shot killing each other? what the fuck does that teach people? what ideas does that reinforce within humanity day in day out? like what the fuck. this is too fucking stupid. spend 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4... never learn a fucking thing on that stupid box except selfishness, vanity, stupidity, accident, violence, hurt, inanity, etc.
like Tonight's top story. train crashes into car. three killed. ok. so slow the fuck down at train intersections. aren't you glad you learned that tonight on the fucking news??? mercy me oh my... sometimes you may get a laugh or two laugh. watch a murder. see someone fall. crack a selfish joke. laugh. sometimes its just silly laugh. thats ok i guess. but fuck taking up precious brain space... stupid stupid stupid |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DAVETOTHEGRAVE replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 5:45pm |
 Coolness: 49755 | woah! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BA_Baracus replied on Thu Aug 26, 2004 @ 6:58pm |
| Coolness: 121005 | the hostage was also black |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Violence_Inc replied on Fri Aug 27, 2004 @ 10:11am |
 Coolness: 174060 | i love toronto. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JAItuDLAIRdunDJ replied on Sat Aug 28, 2004 @ 5:17pm |
 Coolness: 69595 | I Don't Want To Go To Torontoooooooo!!!
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