Drake’s security guard was shot near to the rapper’s $6.7 million mansion in a drive-by shooting, reports say.
The incident unfolded in the upscale neighborhood of Bridle Path shortly after 2am, as a 48-year-old man was rushed to hospital after being found in the street badly injured.
It is unclear if the artist was home at the time of the shooting. A suspect fled the scene in a vehicle, and reports indicate they are still at large.
Sources told the Toronto Sun that the victim was Drake’s security guard, and witnesses said he was shot in the chest during a ‘drive-by shooting.’
A shooting outside rapper Drake’s Toronto mansion left one man seriously injured. The artist was not believed to be home at the time
Drake purchased the Toronto home (pictured) in 2015 for a reported $6.7 million
A police perimeter was set up around the mansion after the victim was found with serious injuries in the street shortly after 2am
The area around Drake’s mansion, built by the star in 2015 for a reported $100 million, was restricted by a police perimeter amid the ongoing investigation.
The victim, who is 48-years-old, was found several streets away, and his injuries have been described by officials as serious, but non-life threatening.
He was raced to Sunnybrook Hospital and received emergency surgery, with one of the wounds believed to be to the upper chest.
Around an hour earlier, a man was shot dead and a woman was injured in another shooting in Oakwood Village, around nine miles away. It is unclear if the two shootings are related.
The location of the shooting at Drake’s Toronto mansion comes amid his ongoing feud with rival rapper Kendrick Lamar, who used the same mansion to taunt Drake this week.
As the two men have released ‘diss tracks’ against each other the last few weeks, Lamar shared the cover for his track ‘Not Like Us’, featuring Drake’s mansion covered in markers for a sex offender app.
Sources told CP24 that Drake has offered to cooperate with investigators as they probe the shooting.
The location of the shooting at Drake’s Toronto mansion comes amid his ongoing feud with rival rapper Kendrick Lamar, who this week shared the cover for his track ‘Not Like Us’, featuring Drake’s mansion covered in markers for a sex offender app
There is no evidence at this time that the shooting was related to the rapper’s viral feud.
The suspect in the shooting fled the scene, police said, and investigators have yet to release any descriptions of either the gunman or the vehicle.
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