Tanya Wilson was locking up her tattoo shop on the Danforth, heading out for dinner with a friend.It was just before 10 p.m.She heard shots.âI thought it was firecrackers.â She pauses. âNo, thatâs not true. I thought it was shots.âBecause we think that way now in Toronto, at the sound of hard cracks. Not firecrackers, not a car backfiring. Bullets.Wilson glimpsed a white man with longish hair, the shooter, and hastily pulled back inside. âHonestly, it was all happening so fast, I didnât know what to do.âSuddenly, two people outside were banging on the front door, pleading to be let in.In her panic, Wilson at first feared these individuals might have been allied with the gunman in some way, trying to force themselves into her business, Skin Deep.Then she saw the blood.Both the older woman and a younger man had been struck.âThey were freaking out, crying, âThereâs a man with a gun!ââWilson hustled them indoors. Put each in one of her tattoo chairs and set about applying first aid, first fashioning a tourniquet above the bullet holes. Both â a mother and her adult son, sheâd learn â had been hit in the leg, below the knee.âI know how to handle blood,â Wilson told the Star. âI put on my medical gloves. Mostly itâs just using common sense.âShe turned off the lights, hoping anybody outside would think it was empty. Then all of them huddled for the half-hour before paramedics discovered them.Read more: Woman dead, 13 injured in Danforth shooting rampagePhotos: Deadly Danforth shooting rampageFour hours later, with the victims removed by ambulance, Wilson and her friend were still being held on the premises, waiting to be interviewed by police.A block away, her tattoo teacher, Trevor Boucher, had pulled up in a vehicle, trying to talk his way past a police cordon on Logan. But only cops and first responders were being allowed through. Even those ...
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