posted April 11, 2001 08:40 PM            

Oh well - let the criminal scum kill each other of they want - as long as they dont hurt any innocent bystanders ...

http://www.island.lk/

Toronto, April 10 A war between two Tamil gangs has escalated with a brazen mid-afternoon shooting on the off-ramp of one of Canada’s busiest highways, leaving the leader of one group wounded. According to police sources, the leader of the AK Kannan group was injured yesterday after rival VVT gang members opened fire on his car using a shotgun and various semi-automatic weapons.

Police are searching for at least three members of the VVT gang. King Chen, a witness driving home from work at around 1:30 p.m., suddenly found himself in a surreal scene at the intersection of Finch Ave. E. and Gordon Baker Rd., at the off-ramp of Highway 404 north. He spotted men stepping out of their red van with ``very long guns.’’

``Bang, bang, bang! They were shooting,’’ said King Chen, shivering from shock and the cold drizzle. ``I’m thinking, am I crazy? What’s happening?’’ Chen had just stumbled into the midst of a gun battle between two bitter rival Tamil gangs. Chen slammed on his minivan’s brakes. But there was nowhere to go. He panicked. In front of him there was a hail of gunfire and at least 15 shots were fired.

``I couldn’t just drive into the middle of a war,’’ Chen said. The rear window of the target vehicle, a black Ford Probe, shattered and the car was now screeching toward Chen, driving the wrong way in the lanes running east on Finch. Gunshots were still being fired at the fleeing car.

The car slammed into the passenger side of Chen’s vehicle, punching in the sliding door. It reversed, and in its escape collided with two other cars. Another vehicle was hit by bullets. The gunmen sped off in their red Toyota Sienna in the opposite direction and escaped. Police are also looking for a green 2000 Dodge Caravan. Miraculously, no one was killed in the fusillade.

The victims, three males, were stopped by a patrolling officer near Finch and Skymark Dr. moments after the shooting as they attempted a U-turn, police said. The male driver had a cut on his finger, either from shattered glass or from being grazed by a bullet. A slug had also grazed his shoulder, said Sergeant Ed LaFosse of 33 Division. One woman, a passing driver, was taken to North York General hospital with minor injuries after her car was struck by the fleeing victims.

``It happened on a main street. In the middle of the day. People opened fire on a vehicle,’’ LaFosse said, counting the bizarre elements. ``That’s not near the norm for this city.’’ Police blocked Finch Ave. from Don Mills Rd. to the northbound ramp at Highway 404 to sort the scene out, slowing the Don Valley Parkway north to a crawl.

Motorists driving along Finch found their route backed up for miles. Misshapen cars littered the area near the intersection, where during the rush hour investigators were taking photographs, videos and measurements, numbering the spent cartridges scattered on the wet pavement.

Police sources suggested the incident began somewhere on Highway 401 before the shooting took place on the Highway 404 off-ramp. Last September, a 50-page report by the Canadian Tamil Youth Development Centre suggested that fighting between the two gangs had diminished with the arrest of two of the gangs’ leaders.

But police say the war has worsened. There have been several incidents in the last six months. In October, two teenagers were shot to death in a Scarborough parking lot and two others were hurt.

posted April 11, 2001 09:09 PM         

Toronto, CA is the next war zone.
Those who harbored Terorists will learn a lesson the hard way.