WARMINGTON: Toronto’s weekend of the gun ‘disgusting’

Дата публикации: 12-07-2026 20:26:23

'It's out of control,' city councillor says after three dead following three disturbing shooting sprees on weekend

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Move over, summer of the gun. Just call this the weekend of the gun.

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Whatever you call it, it was a deadly weekend from hell which will go down in history as Toronto’s dirty dozen of shootings.

This is not Chicago, which often has weekends like this.

This is Toronto, which is getting international news coverage for this weekend’s mayhem and carnage. Toronto Police confirm that, on July 10, 11 and 12 in the city of Toronto, there were 12 victims of gunshots over three disturbing shooting sprees.

Three shot Friday night in North York. Six shot in Toronto’s west end. Three shot in Toronto’s portlands.

That adds up to 12. Inside of that 12, three are dead.

Deputy mayor and city councillor Michael Colle.

“It has hit a tipping point,” Toronto deputy mayor and city councillor Mike Colle said. “Something has to be done.”

It all started at 11 p.m. Friday night with a “targeted” shooting at Sheppard Ave. and Jane St. W. in which 22-year-old Abdihamiim Aden was shot to death at the scene and two others in their 20s were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.

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The gunplay is concerning enough, but throw in that on Saturday, both shooting incidents were in public places. First was at the subsequently cancelled Salsa on St. Clair festival at St. Clair and Arlington Aves. where six people were shot — two of whom are dead.

Then hours later at the Rebel nightclub on Poulson St. in the Portlands, there were three people found with gunshot wounds — and five arrested. In that melee, a 13th person was allegedly hit by a fleeing vehicle and taken to hospital.

It’s actually a dirty baker’s dozen.

25-year-old charged in Rebel shooting

In the Rebel nightclub shooting, Toronto Police have charged Omar Abdul Singateh, 25, withg seven serious offences including reckless discharge of a firearm, four counts of forcible confinement and dangerous operation of a vehicle. These charges have not been tested in court.

Police are still investigating all of three of these shooting incidents.

“It’s out of control and it can’t keep going like this,” Colle said.

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While some criticized the councillor for speaking up at the media scrum at the Salsa festival, he actually deserves a pat on the back. There has been so much B.S. spewed in recent years about crime, some have a hard time recognizing the real world that is showing itself right in front of them.

“I am with Mike Colle on this one,” former Harper government cabinet minister Lisa Raitt said.

Toronto, said Colle, is better than what went on this weekend. The veteran politician who has served for decades said so much in the live media scrum in which he emotionally said enough is although and it’s time to lock some of these “gangsters” up and throw away the key for “20 years.”

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While he said this just after TPS Deputy Chief Frank Barredo talked about Toronto being a relatively “safe city,” Colle explained that he was not intending to upstage the deputy. However, he didn’t want to sugarcoat what this weekend was turning out to be.

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‘We can’t normalize it’

“This is disgusting what is happening here,” Colle said. “We can’t normalize it.”

Toronto was certainly not safe this weekend. And, Colle said, he won’t shut up about it.

“I live in the St. Clair neighbourhood and walk my dog there every day and often (I’m) out there with my grandkids, just the same as all of our constituents,” Colle said. ‘Toronto is where we live and we should not be having 12 people shot in one weekend and a community street festival shot up with families in attendance.”

Colle’s words resonate more with Torontonians than the sometime police edict to just leave your keys at the door and let the criminals do whatever they want.

“The courts need to get tougher on violent offenders who would shoot up a family event,” he said.

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Colle supports the police’s effort and certainly does not blame them for any of these shootings or crime out there. But he does believe the whole system needs to be re-thought — especially with so many violent crimes being allegedly committed by people police already know and who courts have released on conditions.

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But in addition to that, Colle believes many Torontonians are more like him in being outraged that a community event would end up looking like a warzone with innocent men and women bleeding from gunshots.

“There is no excuse for Toronto have a dozen people shot in one weekend,” Colle said. “We have to call it for what it is.”

Toronto is a city that is not as safe as people pretend it is.

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