He can hardly stand now. At times, he stoops from a phlegm cough. They're not very good shots and somebody else is going to get hurt,' a Metro cop said. Shootings in the past seven months have wounded at least six people believed to have Tamil gang links. Police have blamed the violence on two gangs, the Scarborough-based A.K. Kannan and their larger rivals, the VVT of Etobicoke.
Police say the gangs are fighting for turf, including their share of the heroin trade.
Kannan's leader was jailed last summer for heroin trafficking. Kanna's rivals, the VVT, take their name from a Sri Lankan village. They have an estimated membership of 200, police say. Dozens of rounds were fired from the rifle and other guns during a gang firefight near a plaze on Eglinton Ave., E. at Markham Road. They also had machetes in their cars.