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Body Dumped on Toronto Highway After Deadly High Speed Shootout

by Rob Walker | September 9, 2008 at 12:05 pm | 354 views | 7 comments | 19 recommendations

A man was shot dead and his body dumped on one of Canada's busiest highway after a high speed carchase Tuesday afternoon.

Someone driving a gold lexus drove off after the shooting, and dozens of police and emergency personnel have blocked off the eastbound side of the highway.

The shooting is thought to be a reprisal for the fatal mid-day shooting that killed an 18-year-old man yesterday.

A man was reportedly shot dead and dumped onto Highway 401, near Keele Street.

Traffic is backed up along the eastbound collectors lanes of the highway, as police, ambulance and fire crews cordoned off the crime scene.

Broadcast media are reporting that a body was dumped.

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Body dumped at 401, Keele; traffic chaos follows shooting
Reports say person shot in car and then shoved out onto the highway
Sep 09, 2008 06:09 PM

Traffic remains backed up for kilometres as all eastbound collector lanes of Hwy. 401 at Keele St. are closed after a body was dumped out of a moving car following a shooting.

Reports say that a shooting occurred in a car and that the body of a man was dumped out on the highway.

Witnesses reported seeing a woman with a handgun in a champagne-coloured Lexus fleeing the scene.

Police said the Lexus was found in a parking lot behind a building on Armel Court, in the Albion Rd. and Islington Ave. area.

Firefighters were called to a extinguish what appeared to be an engine fire. Other than that the vehicle did not appear to be damaged, the Star's Jim Wilkes reports.

Police quickly sealed off entrances to the parking lot and the building and examined the vehicle as officers searched the bushes around the building.

Crowds of curious onlookers peered through a black iron fence until a heavy downpour made them scatter.

No suspect has been detained at this time.