Boy missing after double shooting is found
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | 9:16 PM ET
CBC News
A seven-year-old boy believed to have witnessed a double shooting in his Toronto home was found late Wednesday, police said.
Calvin Richardson was found at about 7:30 p.m. ET with his father in the same apartment building in the city's northeast end where his home is located, said Toronto police Staff Sgt. Al Scott.
Calvin Richardson, 7, was found late Wednesday, a day after a double shooting in his home that he's believed to have witnessed.
(Toronto Police Service)
Police said late Wednesday evening the boy was at the station, as was his father, Clemant Clive Serjue, who is under arrest but has not been charged with anything.
Earlier in the day, Toronto police had pleaded for anyone with information about the boy's whereabouts to come forward, saying they were concerned about his safety after the shooting on Tuesday afternoon.
"Our focus on this investigation is not the shooting and what occurred. We're focusing on where can we find this seven-year-old kid," Toronto police Det. Harold Chow said earlier.
Two men wounded in shooting
A few hours after the shooting, police received an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be Calvin's father who said the boy was safe.
Tuesday's shooting at a ground-floor unit near Lawrence Avenue East and Pharmacy Avenue shortly after 2 p.m. ET left two men injured, one with gunshot wounds to the leg and another to the stomach.
Witnesses reported hearing at least five shots fired, then seeing the two shooting victims trying to flee the scene in a car, but crashing into a tree.
A short time later, a woman believed to be the child's mother ran out of the building in a panic, witnesses said.
"She was running across the street yelling, 'Help! Help! He's going to kill me!'… And then she stopped a random car and got in and they drove away," one witness told reporters.
The man who picked her up in his vehicle told reporters he drove her to a parking lot and then called 911. When officers arrived, he said, they took statements from both of them and then drove the woman to the police station.
"She told me that her husband and son quite possibly … might have been shot," said the man, who asked not to be identified.
