Toronto police have arrested a suspect wanted in connection to an east-end shooting that injured a woman and her pet dog early Wednesday morning.
Police say a 23-year-old man was arrested on a bus en route to Ottawa Wednesday afternoon. The man was arrested without incident.
Just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, several schools were temporarily closed after shots were fired in the city’s east-end, leaving a woman and a dog injured.
Seven nearby schools were placed in hold and secure mode during a police investigation in central Scarborough for part of the morning.
Police said a woman suffered a gunshot wound to the knee at a home on Woodgarden Crescent, near Morningside Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East, and was rushed to hospital.
The dog—a two-year-old Mastiff named “Duchess”-- was also taken for treatment for a small bullet wound.
Both the woman and the dog are expected to survive.
Peter Secor, Heron Park, Joseph Brant, William G. Miller, West Hill and West Hill Collegiate public schools, and the St. Malachy Catholic junior school, were temporarily placed in hold and secure mode as police hunted for the shooter.
The schools have since reopened.
