A 30-year-old man was killed and two others injured in a shooting on Queen Street West

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On Thursday morning, one person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting in San district of the city.

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According to Toronto police, officers were on Queen St. east of Portland Rd. responded to three shootings outside two bars near W. — Scarlett's Restaurant Bar and Mr. Wolf Club — just after 2:30 a.m.

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A 30-year-old man was taken to hospital and later died.

A 36-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man were also taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, but both survived.

“It's too early for me to tell if it was intentional or accidental,” Homicide Sgt. Trevor Grieve said later at the scene. “I say the shooting happened outside on the sidewalk.”

According to him, it is believed that the shooting was targeted.

Coroners and forensics spent much of the morning collecting evidence from two cages and dusting the doors for fingerprints.

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Sahar Delmoradi — owner of 5S Cafe on Denison Avenue, just north of the bars — said he has heard and witnessed four separate incidents of gun violence in the past five months.

One incident involved an early morning altercation between two groups of young men on the sidewalk in front of a nearby Wendy's restaurant.

“This guy was beating another one (on the ground) and he had a gun,” Delmoradi recalled Thursday. “I went inside to separate them and I saw he had a gun in his hand and I went back to the cafe.”

Before opening to morning customers, he did preparatory work in the cafe.

Delmoradi said the street was closed for the shooting, which left two bullet holes in the window of a nearby second-floor apartment — holes that were still partially covered with green painter's tape Thursday.

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“So now I think it's normal for downtown Toronto,” Delmoradi said. “Of course I'm scared and of course I'm worried. It's not safe for children or families here.”

Sabina Singh, who was visiting her daughter from Winnipeg on Wednesday, said her daughter, who was walking home with friends, woke her up and heard five gunshots around 2:30 a.m.

“There was two people who were like, 'Boom, bang,' and then there was like a pause, and then three, 'Boom, boom, boom,'” he said.

One young man who hangs out in the area said Wednesday night that he had been at Mr. Wolf's Thursday morning and was hoping to get his coat and bag back from the indie club.

He said there was a commotion inside the bar near the front doors and someone was rolling around on the floor.

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“The young lady screamed and then security turned on all the lights,” said the man, who did not want to be identified. “Someone yelled and said someone had been shot.”

At the time, he said, bouncers and security guards tried to get about 100 people inside the club out the back door before police and paramedics arrived.

The region has a history of conflict and death.

On May 6, 2023, around 5 a.m., a man was injured in a shooting at Denison Avenue and Queen St. W.

And Peter Alexandros Madimenos, 38, of Toronto, will be married in October 2022 at Queen St. V. and was shot dead in an altercation near Bathurst Street.

The front window of Wendy's had to be boarded up the next day because it was hit by a stray bullet.

And on September 12, 2022, Queen St. Three people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub on West 563rd.

In a statement released at the time, former mayor John Tory said the weekend's gun violence was “deeply troubling.”

“The death and destruction that gun violence causes in all of our communities cannot be tolerated, and I am confident that all governments will work together to do everything possible to meaningfully address gun violence and keep communities safe,” the statement said.

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