Two gunmen fired into a Weston home after midnight Wednesday, critically injuring a woman while a senior was shot in the leg.

Police received “multiple calls” at around 12:40 a.m. reporting gunshots at 3 Conron Pl., near Weston Road and Church Street, Const. Victor Kwong said.

The bullets hit a woman in her mid-30s and a man, who police believe to be in his 60s or 70s, in his leg. The individuals were in bed at the time, police said.

The woman has life-threatening injuries and undergoing surgery while the man is in stable condition. Both were conscious and breathing when emergency units arrived, Kwong said.

The house is a two-storey, multi-residential building near the end of a cul-de-sac. It has a garage and three separate entrances, with a raised front porch on its east side.

Nicole Alexander said she’s lived in the house with her 9-year-old daughter for the past 2 1/2 years and rents a two-bedroom apartment for $1,300 a month.

It was just after her daughter had fallen asleep when she heard the gunfire.

“I was terrified,” Alexander told the Star.

She stayed in her bed for nearly 30 minutes, she said, before she heard police and ambulance sirens.

She said she doesn’t know her neighbours who were injured in the shooting very well. She said they lived in the unit adjacent to hers but she didn’t know if they were family or not.

“There’s so many people living in this house — upstairs, downstairs, on the side,” she said. “It just happened so close and so fast and I’m scared.”

Alexander showed how one bullet that tore through the door pierced an inside wall, just above where her daughter’s bike is parked and where residents leave their shoes.

“If she had been here picking up her bike or something, I don’t even want to think about what could have happened,” she said.

She described the neighbourhood as relatively safe. The shooting is the first time she can remember something troubling happening.

She’s especially concerned about her young daughter living through “inexplicable” situations like this.

She’s started thinking about moving, though she said she knows it will be tough to find an affordable place elsewhere in the city.

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“I know we’re supposed to feel safe in Canada, but as a single mom I don’t feel safe living here right now,” she said.

Staff-Sgt. Lesley Hildred said the two hooded gunmen wore all black and were spotted running away. Police found shell casings at the scene.