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Shawn (Buck) Vassel was nicknamed the Spider-Man Killer after scaling down 11 floors of a North York highrise apartment in an unsuccessful bid to elude police bent on arresting him for murder.

Now, Spider-Man won’t be rappelling down the side of buildings any time soon for two reasons.

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Facing charges of second-degree murder in connection with a deadly shooting in May, the 35-year-old Vassel’s in a Toronto hospital — paralyzed from the waist down — after Monday’s gun battle in the Queen St. and Ossington Ave. area.

Shot three times, bullets pierced Vassel’s right lower back, upper thigh and left lower leg.

It’s not yet known whether his paralysis is temporary or permanent.

The shooters scattered 22 9-mm shell casings on the ground and wounded two others beside Vassel, said police.

“It was an all out gun battle,” Det. Darren Worth of 14 Division said.

“At this point, there is no known connection between the shooting and the murder.”