Two dead, two others critical after shooting near Toronto's Kensington Market: police

By Edward Era Barbacena

Toronto-Two people are dead and two others are fighting for their lives in hospital after shots rang out in Toronto's Kensington Market area early on Sunday morning, police say.

Officers from the 14 Division said they were called to the corner of Spadina Avenue and Nassau Street at about 6 a.m. for reports of shots fired.

They arrived to find four people with gunshot wounds, including two reportedly with wounds to the head.

Toronto paramedics said two people were pronounced dead at the scene and the other two were rushed to hospital trauma centres in life-threatening condition.

The body of one victim was covered in an orange tarp on the west sidewalk of Spadina Avenue, just north of Nassau Street.

No suspect information was immediately available, and detectives told CP24 they were still working to determine exactly what transpired.