The man charged in a shooting outside a London hospital emergency room is also facing charges from an armed home invasion and a gun-point bank robbery in the Toronto region in the weeks following the gunfire here.
London police announced late Wednesday Doneil Josiah Levy-Porter, 18, of Brampton, is charged with attempted murder and other offences in a shooting last month outside Victoria Hospital’s emergency room.
Police responded around 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 14 to a report of gunfire near White Oak and Southdale roads. While officers were heading to the scene, multiple 911 callers reported shots fired at the emergency room at Victoria Hospital, police said.
Officers arrived at the hospital to find bullets struck the building and a pickup truck that had crashed into a cement pillar. A man who entered the emergency room with gunshot wounds was treated and released the same day, police said.
Investigators determined the two cases of gunfire were linked – it is believed the victim was injured at the scene and his attacker followed him to the hospital – and released multiple images of the suspect’s vehicle.
Levy-Porter has been in police custody since last Friday after he was arrested in Brampton in connection with a violent home invasion in Vaughan four days earlier.
York Regional police responded on Jan. 6 at 3:49 a.m. to a home Vaughan, north of Toronto, where multiple suspects, at least one of them armed with a gun, had forced their way into a home. Officers found one resident with a gunshot wound and he was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Investigators identified Levy-Porter as a suspect last Friday and obtained a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest. He was arrested later that day in Brampton, police said.
Levy-Porter, who was under multiple release orders from unrelated charges at the time of his arrest last week, was also charged in a Dec. 23 bank robbery in Markham, police said.
He is charged with two counts of robbery with a firearm, pointing a firearm, aggravated assault, failing to comply with a release order, failing to comply with an undertaking and other gun-related offences.
A London police spokesperson said Levy-Porter will be charged by warrant in the London shootings when he appears next in court.
“He will not be transferred to London police custody as he is already in custody in another jurisdiction but will be transported to London courthouse for the court dates related to the London police charges,” Const. Matt Dawson said in an email Thursday.
In addition to attempted murder charge in London, Levy-Porter is also charged with discharging a firearm in a reckless manner, possession of property obtained by crime, dangerous driving, failing to comply with a release order and failing to comply with an undertaking.
Following the shooting at the hospital – one of 14 incidents of gunfire in London last year – London Health Sciences Centre’s provincially appointed supervisor said safety improvements, including installing a weapons detection system, are in the works at both of the city’s emergency rooms.