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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 02:59 PM Aug 2016

3 Dead In Apparent Crossbow Attack In Toronto

Source: Huffington Post

TORONTO — Paramedics say three people have been pronounced dead in east Toronto. Police say a crossbow was found nearby.

Const. David Hopkinson told CBC News that at least one victim had been struck by a crossbow bolt.

Paramedics said 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.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/08/25/crossbow-toronto-dead_n_11703556.html

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Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
2. Very sad for the friends and families of the victims.
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 04:05 PM
Aug 2016

Checking some links, crossbows have some history in Canada as weapons of mayhem.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
3. There's a lot weird about this story.
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 06:15 PM
Aug 2016

A crossbow? People killed in Toronto? "Other things" found in the area?

6chars

(3,967 posts)
4. hate crime? (NRA-free country version)
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:06 AM
Aug 2016
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/man-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-crossbow-attack-1.3045249

A 35-year-old man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with Thursday’s crossbow attack.

In a news release Friday, police said Brett Ryan, of Toronto, is facing three counts of first-degree murder after three people died on a residential street in Scarborough on Thursday.

“It’s a very quiet neighbourhood, it’s a very peaceful neighbourhood and everybody gets along so this is not normal,” resident Faiza Siddiqui said.
 

ansible

(1,718 posts)
5. Crossbows were once banned by the Vatican in the middle ages for being so dangerous
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 11:51 AM
Aug 2016

These are no toys at all, they were the equivalent of guns before gunpowder was invented in being easy to use by anyone

Eugene

(61,592 posts)
7. Convicted bank robber charged in Toronto crossbow deaths
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 06:09 PM
Aug 2016

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS | Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:44pm EDT

Convicted bank robber charged in Toronto crossbow deaths

A Toronto bank robber known as the "fake beard bandit" was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three people were killed in a crossbow attack in the city's east end, police in Canada's largest city said on Friday.

Brett Ryan, 35, who appeared in court briefly on Friday, was arrested in 2008 for committing robberies in disguise, police said. He was charged with more than a dozen counts of robbery and later convicted.

Two men and a woman died in the driveway of a house on Thursday.

One of the people who was killed made a 911 emergency call before dying, according to a local newspaper report, which said the suspect had also been wounded.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-toronto-crossbow-idUSKCN1111PU
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