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Toronto Police Service: Eric Osawe was shot once by Toronto Police Service Officer David Cavanagh during an early-morning police raid at his apartment in Etobicoke. The raid was conducted by the Emergency Task Force and Guns and Gangs Squad. Two months later, Cavanagh was charged with manslaughter in Osawe's death.
Police said that Lee was holding a liquor bottle at the time of the attack and that the theft of the alcoholic beverage was likely a motive for the attack. [11] Police also said they do not believe the victim knew any of the attackers. [11] Lee lived in Toronto and was an immigrant from Hong Kong. [3]
At 10:30 pm on July 26, Sammy Yatim boarded a Toronto subway train [11] and transferred to a streetcar on route 505 Dundas around 11:45 pm. [12] Sometime afterwards, he drew his 12 cm (4.7 in) switchblade knife, [4] approached a passenger, [5] and told other passengers to remain on the streetcar, reportedly acting aggressively towards other passengers. [13]
The 2006 Ontario terrorism case is the plotting of a series of attacks against targets in Southern Ontario, Canada, and the June 2, 2006 counter-terrorism raids in and around the Greater Toronto Area that resulted in the arrest of 14 adults and 4 youths (the "Toronto 18"). [1]
In 1984, Kelly was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife Jeannette Kelly by throwing her from the 17th floor balcony of The Palace Pier high-rise on Sunday, March 29, 1981, in Toronto, Canada. He stated to police that he had seen his wife on the balcony, reaching out over the rail to investigate a rattle.
The Toronto Police Service was founded in 1834 as Toronto Police Force or sometimes as Toronto Police Department, when the city of Toronto was first created from the town of York. Before that, local able-bodied male citizens were required to report for night duty as special constables for a fixed number of nights per year on penalty of fine or ...
After an investigation (profiled in The Detectives on CBC Television in 2018), [9] Stewart Poirier was charged with the arson and convicted; he was sentenced to ten years in December 2012. [10] Poirier died of natural causes on February 10, 2013, while incarcerated at the Joyceville Institution.
Woodbine Building Supply was a hardware store on Toronto's east-end Danforth Avenue owned by Magno with his two brothers, Frank and Carlo, and started by their father years before. For several years the company had struggled to compete with a nearby Home Depot , and its owners had frequent disputes with local residents; it had been fined ...