Cat shot as east-end home riddled with bullets

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Cat shot as east-end home riddled with bullets
By Kevin Connor, Toronto Sun
First posted: Sunday, May 29, 2016 03:24 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, May 29, 2016 09:27 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Toronto woman returned to her east-end home Sunday to find bullet holes in her door and her cat suffering from a mortal wound.

The shooting happened some time between Saturday evening and Sunday morning in the Logan and First Aves. area, Toronto Police say.

“We have a distraught woman. She returned home to find bullet holes in her door and her cat was shot,” Const. David Hopkinson said.

“We don’t know exactly when it happened, but it is a very unfortunate situation. We are more concerned about finding bullets in the door.”

Police tweeted Sunday afternoon that the cat had been taken to an emergency vet. It was later euthanized.
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Was cat gunman's intended target?
By Kevin Connor, Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, May 30, 2016 02:16 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, May 30, 2016 02:20 PM EDT
TORONTO - The gunman who targeted a Riverdale home over the weekend, fatally striking a cat, may have opened the screen door before firing.
Toronto Police say a woman returned to her Logan-First Aves.-area home on Sunday afternoon to find bullet holes in her front door and her cat wounded.
The feline ending up having to be put down.
Const. Caroline de Kloet says the gunfire happened between Saturday night and Sunday morning. There were three bullet holes in the wooden front door.
However, there were no bullet holes in the screen door on the outside of the wood door, leaving the impression someone opened the screen to fire the shots.
The bullet holes appear to be the size of a pellet gun.
De Kloet said she couldn’t comment on the calibre of the bullets.
“A bullet was removed (from the cat) and sent to the forensic unit for further investigation,” she said.
Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack praised the officers who passed around the hat to pay the veterinarian bill, including the euthanization.
“Thks to 55 Div officers Yan, Smith & Rinkoff for picking up vet bill to euthanize cat injured in T.O. shooting,” he tweeted Monday.
Area residents said having a shooting in the neighbourhood is unusual.
“For something like that to happen here is bizarre,” Erin Outhton said. “It’s a good place. The worst thing that goes on is a bike theft.”
A neighbour across the street from the shooting left a note by the bullet-ridden door.
“We can’t imagine how you are feeling right now ... your neighbours are thinking of you,” the note read.
Stan, who didn’t want his last name used, agreed such an event is out of character for the area.
“I’ve lived here 32 years and there has never been anything. I was talking to my wife and we wondered if it was something like those people who leave poison around for dogs,” Stan said.
“Maybe this cat was messing someone’s garden.”
De Kloet said police are working with the targeted home’s residents.
“The victim in this case is the cat,” she said.
kconnor@postmedia.com
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