Police identify suspect wanted in Yorkdale mall shooting
Posted August 31, 2018 5:45 pm.
Last Updated September 1, 2018 8:50 am.
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Toronto police have identified a suspect wanted in connection with a shooting at Yorkdale mall on Thursday afternoon.
Officers were called to the mall for the sound of gunshots just before 3 p.m. on Thursday. Police say two groups of men were involved in an altercation at the mall and two gunshots were fired, prompting the evacuation of the popular North York shopping centre.
Police say 20-year-old Zion Sankar-Beharry was last seen in the Warden Avenue and Steeles Avenue East area at 5 p.m. Thursday. He is considered armed and dangerous.
No one was injured in the shooting. Paramedics treated three patients for distress and one was transferred to hospital.
The incident was the latest in a string of high-profile shootings in the city this year. In July two people were killed in a rampage in Toronto’s Greektown. A month earlier, two young girls were wounded in a shooting at a playground, and days later a woman on her way home from a funeral died in a drive by-shooting police called indicative of a “street gang subculture.”
