Gunshots ring out on Mississauga street ... again
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Gun weary residents on a Mississauga street are petrified and sick to death of living in a shooting range.
Gunfire erupted early Thursday for the second time in 24 hours on Acorn Pl. — a neighbourhood near Hurontario St. and Eglinton Ave. E. where bullets fly all too often.
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On the short residential street there were two incidents on gun violence in 2017, two in 2018, four in 2019 and three already this year.
One woman who lives with her three kids on the street believes the shootings are tied to a turf war and the gun violence won’t end until all the gang members have killed each other.
“They are looking for certain people and don’t care who else is around,” the woman said Thursday, explaining she didn’t want to be named because she fears “they will come and get you.”
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“This is the worst it has ever been,” she said. “I’ve moved my kids beds away from the windows.”
The woman alleges the gangs call each other out on social media and in music videos posted on YouTube.
One YouTube video by Blocka 905, clearly shot on Acorn Pl., raps about “feds watching” and how the only thing to do is sell drugs.
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The woman wonders why cops don’t look into such videos. She also wishes there was more of a police presence in her neighbourhood.
Another woman drove up to a police cruiser parked at the scene Thursday morning to share her thoughts.
“There is more to this than just shootings. Watch the (neighbourhood) cameras,” she told officers, before asking if there are ever undercover officers working in the area at night.
“I’ve lived here 11 years and I’m shaking every time I come home,” she said. “It’s scary man,”
Police — who won’t speak to ongoing investigations that may involve turf wars — say officers responded to the most recent call for shots fired on Acorn around 12:50 a.m. on Thursday.
“Two male occupants of a dark-coloured vehicle confronted two (male) adults,” Const. Bancroft Wright said. “They exited the vehicle and shots were fired at the men (on the street) who ran from the scene.”
“The (shooters) returned to the vehicle and fled the scene,” he added.
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Wright said no one was hit by the gunfire but multiple shell casing were recovered on the street.
Police are looking for a dark-coloured, four-door Honda.
Wright said it’s too early to say if the shooting is connected to a driveby shooting that occurred across the street early Wednesday.
That shooting saw a vehicle with two shooters open fire on a vehicle with two occupants that was parked at an apartment building around 1 a.m.
The victims’ vehicle was riddled with bullet holes in the aftermath and a stray bullet pierced a nearby first-floor apartment window. But the vehicle’s occupants managed to escape injury.
“We have had a number of incidents at the location including this back-to-back shooting,” Wright said.
“Both incidents (on Wednesday and Thursday) are being investigated by the same FIS (Forensic Identification Services) Unit,” he said.
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