Confrontation between two men leaves one dead in Moss Park shooting
A video viewed by the Sun shows two men exchanging punches on the sidewalk before one shoots the other
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First there were a flurry of punches, then a single gun blast and a man lay dying on Sherbourne St. in Moss Park.
The entire 40-second interaction occurred Wednesday night on the sidewalk outside the Salvation Army’s Maxwell Meighen Centre and a Dollarama store.
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A woman in a long puffy jacket standing outside Moss Park Arena — at Queen St. E. and Sherbourne St. — on Thursday showed the Sun the video of the shooting captured on her phone, but would not share it out of fear of street repercussions.
The video shows two men — one tall and skinny wearing a long dark coat and the man who finally shoots him, much shorter and wearing a shiny puffy jacket.
The shiny jacketed man approaches the taller man and they start arguing — about what, it’s not known — while a few people stand around watching and others walk by on the sidewalk.
Suddenly, the man in the puffy jacket punches the taller man, pushes him, and then walks south along the sidewalk. The taller man moves quickly after him and starts throwing punches from behind, hitting him in the head multiple times.
At that point, the puffy coat man calmly turns around, standing his ground, and reaches into his jacket. then bam, there is a flash from a handgun and the tall man stumbles backwards reeling, before falling to the ground in front of a huge brown metal box that houses phone and internet cabling.
Toronto Police responded to the shooting and paramedics took the man via an emergency run to hospital, where he later died.
The victim has been identified as Lyle Pounall, 43, of Toronto.
He is the city’s third homicide of the year following the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy in The East Mall and Rathburn Rd. area of Etobicoke on Tuesday.
A few people exchanging cigarettes Thursday morning at the scene said they thought they knew the man who was shot and said he always walked his pit bull dog, named Bo, in the area.
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The speculation was that the man’s dog possibly bit the shooter recently, but that was just street talk and not confirmed by Toronto Police.
Outside the Dollarama the morning after there were no yellow tape or evidence markers, but rather an excavation crew and members from Enbridge Gas fixing up a newly installed gas main. Behind them on the wall there were burn and scorch marks.
People in the area told the Sun that last week a woman, possibly with mental health issues, started a fire right in front of the gas main trying to keep warm.
As the Enbridge team was excavating, a large pile of burnt debris from the fire was seen piled up along the wall.
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