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The man police believe escaped a west-end restaurant shooting more than two years ago is now clinging to life in hospital after being targeted in yet another shooting early Tuesday morning, this newspaper has learned.

Behzad Behruzi, 32, was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition with a gunshot wound to the chest just after 1 a.m. Tuesday. He remained in surgery through much of the morning.

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Police responded to reports of shots fired in the area of Reid Haven Road, near the intersection of Barwell Avenue and Alenmede Crescent, in Bayshore. Once on scene, officers found a silver Ford Focus with a window that had been pierced with multiple bullet holes.

A short time later, police believe Behruzi himself called 911 from a nearby park reporting that he had been shot. He would only identify himself as “John Smith” to a police force that has his information on record.

Behruzi was taken to the trauma centre. As police continued to scour the area, they later found a second vehicle on Barwell Avenue riddled by gunfire on the driver’s side that had crashed onto a driveway. A third vehicle — a parked blue SUV — would also be found, seemingly rammed from behind in a collision.