Canton police issued a shelter-in-place for residences in the area where a woman was shot Monday night as police actively search for an armed suspect. "Police do not believe this was a random act of violence, and significant mutual aid resources are in Canton conducting a search for the suspect," Interim Police Chief Joseph Perkins said in a statement. Police responded to a report of a person shot at the Lamplighter Village apartment complex, near the intersection of Turnpike Street and Stagecoach Road, around 6:40 p.m.
According to law enforcement sources, the 66-year-old man was on a southbound F train at the Delancey-Essex Streets station at around 6:15 p.m. on Sept. 20 when he was attacked. Police said an unidentified man approached the victim from behind and struck him in the back of his head, using a closed fist. The violent blow caused the victim to briefly lose consciousness, according to authorities, though he refused medical attention at the scene.
Police are looking for a 34-year-old man in connection with a fatal shooting that happened at a commercial plaza in Toronto's east end Saturday. Toronto police responded to reports of a shooting in the Victoria Park Avenue and Sheppard Avenue E. area just before midnight Saturday, according to a news release. Officers located a man inside a vehicle with gunshot wounds, police said. Despite life-saving measures by emergency responders, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
