WARMINGTON: Quiet Richmond Hill area shaken by gunfire
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Those who live on Leisure Lane in Richmond Hill always felt the street was appropriately named.
It’s just down from Easy Street, after all.
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“It’s a quiet neighbourhood,” said a long-time resident. “I would walk my dog at 2 a.m. without thinking twice.”
Other sections of the GTA may have crime and criminals visit. But not here.
Until Tuesday night.
Just like that, the serene, high-end, residential street in the Major Mackenzie and Trent St. area became a shooting gallery that had York Regional Police shutting down streets.
“There goes the neighbourhood,” one longtime resident said late Tuesday.
It all started after 10 p.m.
“I thought it was a firecracker,” one resident said on twitter. “I kept hearing too much activity in front of my house — decided to look out the window. Police cars, yellow tape, pylons in front of the property next to mine. Gunfire!”
Neighbours were guessing what it could be.
“Maybe a drive-by shooting?”
Road rage? A robbery? Gang stuff?
York cops are investigating. It seems there was a car chase originally, a crash in front a house and then a foot chase where people saw a man fleeing two others wearin hoodies.
“At approximately 10 p.m., officers responded to a residence on Kerrybrook Dr., which is in the area of Bathurst St. and Major Mackenzie Dr. W. for a report of a man in a backyard who was suffering from injuries,” Sgt. Andy Pattenden said in a news release.
“When officers arrived, they found a black Audi S7 with bullet holes in it and located the victim, a 39-year-old man from the City of Vaughan who was injured, but was not shot. He was taken to hospital for treatment of his non-life-threatening injuries.”
Police are searching for “three male suspects” and a “light-coloured sedan.”
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Pattenden said: “Officers are asking any witnesses who may have been in the area at the time who have not yet spoken to police to please come forward. Investigators are also seeking any video surveillance from the area or anyone that may have captured dashcam video on the roadways in the area of any of the incidents.”
CP24’s Cam Woolley said his sources described it to him as appearing to be a “targeted” hit attempt.
This offered little relief to a stunned section of Richmond Hill not used to flashing police lights, TV cameras and gunplay.
“An officer knocked on the door,” said one resident. “He kept assuring me that it’s a very safe neighbourhood and it’s just a one-off coincidence that it happened on my street.”
So neighbours are glad things will be back to being leisurely soon.
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