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An 18-year-old faces six charges, including attempted murder, in a brazen shooting outside the emergency department at Victoria Hospital.
Doneil Josiah Levy-Porter, 18, of Brampton is charged in the shooting in which shots struck the hospital and a pickup track crashed into a concrete pillar outside the emergency room on Dec. 14, London police said Wednesday.
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Levy-Porter is charged with attempt to commit murder using a firearm, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, dangerous operation of a conveyance, discharging a restricted firearm or a prohibited firearm in a reckless manner, failing to comply with release order and failing to comply with an undertaking.
Levy-Porter is charged by way of warrant because he is in custody in another jurisdiction on unrelated charges, police said.
London police officers responded on Dec. 14 at around 2:30 a.m. to a confrontation and possible gunfire near White Oak and Southdale roads.
As officers were heading to the scene, several 911 callers reported shots fired at the emergency room at Victoria Hospital on Commissioners Road, police said.
Officers arrived to find gunfire had struck both the building and a pickup truck that had crashed into a cement pillar. Police said they found evidence a gun had been fired multiple times.
A man who entered the emergency room with gunshot wounds was treated and released the same day.
Investigators believe that following the initial altercation at White Oaks and Southdale roads, the man drove himself to the hospital, followed by the shooter.
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Det.-Insp. Sean Travis, who oversees investigative services, said investigators believe the man was shot before he arrived at the hospital.
Police called the shooting a “targeted and isolated” incident, but a senior officer said it was “very fortunate” no one at the hospital was struck by stray rounds.
Police released images of a suspect vehicle – a four-door Hyundai Sonata from 2018 or 2019, grey or silver, with a sunroof – in the days following the shooting and asked anyone with information to come forward.
In the wake of the shooting, David Musyj, the supervisor of London Health Sciences Centre, said safety improvements, including installing a weapons detection system, are in the works at both London emergency rooms, though he conceded the measures would not have prevented the Dec. 14 gunfire.
Hospital officials are also exploring improvements to the exterior facades at the emergency rooms, he said.
Musyj, who said he was on the scene at the emergency room soon after the gunfire, praised “the resilience” of emergency room staff.
“Dealing with people with gunshot wounds is not typical, but it happens,” he said in the aftermath of the shooting. “They did not miss a beat. It was spectacular to watch it unfold. They were calm.”
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