Home Invasion
 

Police killed one man and arrested another after a violent home invasion in Markham Thursday morning.

Officers descended on the scene of a residence on Steele Valley Rd. near Bayview and Steeles Aves. at about 5:15am.

When they arrived they confronted two suspects in the front of a home, at least one of whom was armed with a gun.

Shots rang out, one of them hitting and killing one of the suspects as he tried to flee in a white pickup truck. The other fled the scene.

That led to a massive manhunt involving Emergency Task Force officers from Toronto, York and Durham forces, including the Durham police helicopter.

“I was on my morning walk and I went to see what was going on,” one area resident recalled. “I saw someone running across the street. Then, the next thing I knew another gentleman came running down and said that this person matched the description of the suspect. Within minutes police cars were in the area.”

Police set up a perimeter, shutting the intersections of Bayview and Steeles and Proctor Ave. near Bayview, and fanned out across the area.

At about 8:30am they tracked the second suspect, whom they’d considered armed and dangerous, to a second house nearby where he'd apparently broken in in order to hide. He’d apparently made a cellphone call to his girlfriend at one point, saying he was in trouble.

The man was arrested following a dramatic takedown that saw the suspect climb out of a second storey window onto the roof.

It's unclear whether he was armed when he was taken into custody. Suffering non-life threatening gunshot wounds from the initial confrontation with the cops, he was transported to hospital.

According to a spokesperson for the Toronto Police, two teens inside the second house called 9-1-1 to let them know that the suspect was inside.

"(Residents) were good enough to get on the phone and did a good job, so we were able to arrest this person as he came out of the door," the officer described.

There’s no word yet on charges. The suspects were apparently known to police.

Two people living in the home involved in the invasion were taken to hospital, suffering from minor injuries.

The province's Special Investigations Unit has been called in to probe the incident. The S.I.U. looks into all matters involving police and civilians that result in serious injury or death.


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Well, I've now heard on the radio that the girlfreind of the dead home-invader is trashing the police for shooting and killing the suspect. She's making a lot of noise and I even heard the racism word, but can't find any articles about it.

My views? I'm glad the fucker is dead. The police did a fantastic job of responding to home invasion call and I'm sad that the other guy was only wounded.

These disgusting acts are becoming commonplace in our city and the police need to send a message like this.

Your city? Fuck man, it's happening all over the country. I heard that there was a home invasion somewhere in Northern Alberta that involved an assault on a pregnant woman.

Is she on fucking drugs??? what can her rationale possibly be???

I bet she thinks it's okay to burst into somebody's house, their refuge, their private place, and invade their sense of security at their most vulnerable, and violently demand what ever. fuck.

To bring a gun to a crime is bad enough. A home invasion is tantamount to a terrorist act. It just doesn't have politcal overtones.

But for her to trash the police???? And to use a racism excuse???? I actually do believe she is on drugs. I can't believe that she would really support her boyfriend's endeavours otherwise...

Drugs is a possibility.

But the way I look at it, is that there are lots of idiots in this world. And the media loves them because it causes phone calls from people saying "what the hell that girlfriend is a retard" and "what are you talking about? The girlfriend is totally right!"

I tend to just ignore things like this and just hope that rational heads prevail.

1 down............too fucking many to go.


*bastards*

It happens every time a black man commits a heinous crime and the cops shoot him. It's "obviously" the racist cops fault, and a the guy breaking into people's houses and terrorizing them has nothing to do with anything - and the sad thing is much of the black community actually believes crap like that.

As far as I'm concerned, the cops should shoot more violent criminals caught in the act.

You're all a bunch of racists.

Surely you must realize by now that it's society's fault that guys like this have to resort to crime in order to afford their BMW's and their gold jewelry. It's just not fair.

Work for it you say?

Come on now, you can't be serious, you just don't understand the plight of the poor urban Underprivileged youth today.

We need to address the root causes of this issue.

Throwing these poor misunderstood and marginalized youth in jail, or worse yet, shooting them solves nothing.

Except repeat offenses I guess

Just wait till the Toronto Star comes out on Tuesday.

Don't feel all alone. It seems to happen in every country where law-abiding citizens can't own guns. The bad guys love that arrangement.

The laws didn't seem to give the criminals a problem in this case, either. That's why they're criminals.