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We all (as in about 15-20 of us) slowly walk to the exit (Hudson’s Bay side) and met up with other people just waiting there. I heard from another bystander that he had a gun pointed at his own head. I also heard he was a young guy. We all wait in the middle of the exit thinking that the policemen had caught the guy but that’s when approximately 6-8 other policemen came. They started directing us to leave the platform and that’s when people all started heading towards the staircase that leads to the Hudson’s Bay underground bypass. At that time, I retrieved a transfer ticket (7:57 p.m.) and after 15 seconds, all of a sudden we all heard about 10-15 gun shots. That is when everyone started running up the stair case and escalators. People who were coming down were going back up, people were even running up the down escalators in which some got hurt from falling or were traumatized from the shots that they heard.

I left through the Bay and that’s when I took a picture of all the policemen outside.

Jessica Wong

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Ontario’s police watchdog said Saturday that it’s believed four officers opened fire inside a Toronto subway station, wounding a man in an incident that eyewitnesses described as sending a ripple of panic through transit riders.

Shots rang out inside the Queen subway station underneath the bustling Eaton Centre mall around 8 p.m. Friday, sending the 18-year-old man to hospital.

Subway rider Kevin Chan described a frightening and chaotic scene onboard the train before the young man was shot.