MISSISSAUGA - A man shot dead near a bus stop in Mississauga Wednesday night was the victim of a targeted hit, police say.
Peel Regional Police responded around 10 p.m. after shots were fired outside an apartment building on Mississauga Valley Blvd., at Elm Dr.
Officers found 28-year-old Shane Thomas, of Mississauga, on the ground, near a bus shelter, Const. Rachel Gibbs said Thursday. Emergency personnel performed first aid, but Thomas died at the scene.
Gibbs described Thomas as the intended target and said he was hit multiple times. She called it an “isolated” incident with “no threat to pubic safety.”
As of late Thursday morning, yellow police tape cordoned off 1547 Mississauga Valley Blvd., and a cluster of triangular evidence markers could be seen sitting on the ground, around the shelter.
Resident Nasrine Arghavani Fard, 33, heard the shots and saw the rescue effort through the trees that pepper the front of the building.
“I heard gunfire six or seven times,” said Arghavani Fard. “They always do fireworks here, so I thought at first they were fireworks, but then I heard a car speed away.”
Arghavani Fard also said she saw police “trying to massage (the victim’s) heart.”
Stanislaw Bartczak, 68, also heard the shots.
“Maybe five or six,” he said. “I turned my lights off. I was scared.”
Members of Peel police’s major collision investigation team were at the scene, but Gibbs couldn’t say if a vehicle was involved
This was one of three shootings in Peel Region Wednesday night.
Around the time of the Mississauga Valley shooting, police were called to the Fair Oaks Place- McMurchy Ave. area of Brampton after shots were fired into a home.
Then, around 11 p.m., officers were called to the Dundas-Hurontario Sts. area, after shots were fired into a second floor apartment unit.
No injuries were reported in either shooting.
Toronto Sun
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