TORONTO – Ten people will in court on Saturday to face charges in connection with a string of robberies including the one at Thistletown Collegiate on Thursday.
Search warrants were executed and arrests made.
Four men, said to be in their 20s and some wearing masks, pulled into the parking lot of Thistletown Collegiate Institute on Thursday in a stolen Toyota and robbed students, police said.
The suspects robbed two female students of their cellphones at gunpoint just outside of a school entrance around noon. The robbers then targeted a third male student who was shot at when he ran away. The bullet missed the teen and hit a parked car.
Superintendant Ron Taverner said he hopes the arrests brings peace to the community.
“The quick arrests have alleviated some of the fears in the community and in the school,” he explained.
Police also said these same suspects are connected to other crimes, including two after the incident at the school.
“We feel like confident that we’ve ended a huge crime spree,” Taverner said.
The same suspects are also connected to more than 20 other robberies in Peel and York region.
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These aspiring rappers must be put away forever, make an example of them.
The advantages of having saudi laws. once you get caught the hand’s gone!
So we should emulate barbarians? Rubbish. In case you didn’t notice, they still have theft in Saudi Arabia, even with the barbarian punishments. Not in my Canada.
These thugs MUST be charged with attempted murder, throw these turds in the bowl and flush them.
i totaly agree with a working guy.20 yrs is good enough
Unfortunately when and if the culprits do get caught, our lovely justice system will most definetly will give them a wave with the finger and say “now don’t do it again” and then let them go
This is what the parents have been doing for years.
How can the school be at the “Islington and Kipling area” when they’re long streets that do not cross? Not useful info for us to avoid an area that is effectively the entire Etobicoke/Rexdale zone. Come on, you can do better than that!
Correction: The school is in the Islington and Elmurst area, north of the 401.
I dont get it.. some kid’s cell phone was stolen, so they shut the school down? This doesn’t make sense
The school was ‘locked down’ because an intruder brandished a firearm (& then took a shot). Students & Staff rush to the safety of a lockd classroom while police comb the area for the suspects. This is a standard operating procedure that is in place to keep students safe after an incident such as this.
There was a shot fired but nobody was injured.
Bad aim does not excuse attempted murder.
Any time a gun is fired at a living thing, it is a safe assumption killing is intended.
That is after all what guns are for. (And I enjoy guns FYI. Love target shooting.)