Two men are dead and two others are fighting for their lives in hospital after shots rang out in Toronto’s Kensington Market area early on Sunday morning, Toronto police say.
Officers from 14 Division said they were called to the corner of Spadina Avenue and Nassau Street just before 6 a.m. for reports of shots fired.
They arrived to find four people with gunshot wounds, including two reportedly with wounds to the head.
Toronto paramedics said two people were pronounced dead at the scene and another two were rushed to hospital trauma centres in life-threatening condition.
Const. Alex Li said the victims range in age from 28 to 43 years of age.
The body of one victim was seen covered in an orange tarp on the west sidewalk of Spadina Avenue, north of Nassau Street.
No suspect information was immediately available, and detectives told CP24 they were still working to determine exactly what transpired.
“It's too early for me to address whether this was an isolated incident, but this is something investigators will be looking into,” Li said.
Spadina Avenue is closed from Dundas to College streets to allow for an investigation.
