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Three Dead In East Toronto, Crossbow Found Nearby: Police

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 25 Aug, 2016 11:17 AM
    TORONTO — Paramedics say three people have been pronounced dead in east Toronto.
     
    Police say a crossbow was found nearby.
     
    Neither police nor paramedics could confirm whether the crossbow was used in the incident, but paramedics say two men and a woman have died.
     
    Const. Jennifer Sidhu says there were other "things" found in the area that could have been used in the incident.
     
    Paramedics say they're assessing two other patients, but couldn't provide details on their age, gender or condition.
     
    Police say a man has been taken into custody.
     
     
    PREVIOUS INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE IN CANADA THAT INVOLVED A CROSSBOW
     
    Three people died Thursday in an crossbow incident at a home east of Toronto. The following is a list of other crossbow incidents in Canada:
     
     
    — In December 2010, 24-year-old Zhou Fang shot his father in the back with a crossbow then crushed his skill with a hammer, at a public library in Toronto's east end.
     
    — In July, a Mission, B.C., father was charged with attacking his son who was shot in the forearm with a crossbow. 
     
    — In November 2007, a 26-year-old man was charged with murder and attempted murder after his mother was killed and father was injured by a crossbow in St-Cesaire, Que.
     
    — In October 2002, a dairy farmer was shot in the back and injured with a crossbow in St.-Bonaventure.
     
    — In August 1998, a man asleep in his Hamilton home was shot in the head and injured by a man who fired a crossbow.
     
    — In 1998, Edward Stuart Walker shot a pregnant Stephanie Celestine Thomas with a crossbow, then stabbed her 46 times in Central Saanich on Vancouver Island.
     
    — In September 1994, Yvon Gosselin was driven to a gravel pit near Terrace, B.C., where he was killed with two bolts from a crossbow.
     
    — In May 1995, a man armed with a crossbow entered the Winnipeg Convention Centre shortly before then-prime minister Jean Chretien arrived to deliver a speech. The suspect was arrested.
     
    — In January 1993, B.C. Institute of Technology student Silvia Leung, 22, bled to death in the campus parking lot in Burnaby after being hit in the shoulder by a crossbow.
     
    — In November 1991, Ottawa lawyer Patricia Allen was killed with a crossbow by her estranged husband Colin McGregor.

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