The fatal shooting of a man and the wounding of another at Yorkdale Shopping Mall tonight has prompted police to isolate thousands of people and their cars in the mall’s huge parking lot. Toronto Police Service has announced that it will be many hours before vehicles are able to come and go freely at the mall and they have advised people who must leave to do so without their cars. The victim is said to be a man and as the Toronto Sun suggests he may have been shot as many as ten times. The second man is said to be in Sunnybrook Hospital in serious but stable condition. There is no information on who they are or even if they knew each other. Radio and television reports indicate that stranded shoppers are angry at being denied the opportunity to leave. There is also apparently widespread tweeting among the thousands of people who know the mall expressing their fears about violence there. The shootings took place about 8.20 outside the Sears store on the south side of the mall.
