The shooting death of a pregnant woman in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood Sunday night may have links to a gang war sparked by an armed standoff and a kidnapping at a downtown condominium last month, CBC News has learned.
Police sources have told CBC News that they are probing a possible connection between the fatal shooting of Candice Rochelle Bobb, 35, and a rivalry between two gangs; one based on Driftwood Avenue in the Jane and Finch area, and the other on Jamestown Crescent in the Kipling and Albion area.
Out for revenge
Police and neighbourhood sources tell CBC News that Gardiner, nicknamed "Pressa" referring to pressing the trigger of a gun, was attacked and beaten in jail by rival gang members and that his own gang, the Young Buck Killas, is now out for revenge.
Sources tell CBC News police have tied at least two shootings since Gardiner's arrest to his gang: a 23-year-old man shot in the head near Jane and Finch on May 13 and on May 6, a man shot after being followed from a Brampton courthouse.