Toronto police investigating shooting near Drake's mansion

Toronto police are currently investigating a shooting that took place near Drake's luxurious mansion in the Bridle Path neighbourhood early Tuesday morning. 

At approximately 2:10 a.m., police responded to reports of a shooting near Bayview Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East. One man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the gunfire. 

SHOOTING:
Bayview Ave & Lawrence Ave E
2:09 am
- reports of a shooting
- police o/s
- man transported to hospital with serious injuries
- suspect fled in a vehicle
- unknown description#GO978573
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— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 7, 2024

Police say the suspect fled in a vehicle, although no descriptions of both the suspect and the vehicle involved were provided. A source confirmed to CBC Toronto that the investigation is centred at the rap star's 50,000-square-foot mega-mansion. 

Toronto police have since taped off the "Family Matters" rapper's home, and the investigation is ongoing. 

Drakes front door is taped off by Toronto police. pic.twitter.com/OTL0fl0UPC

— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) May 7, 2024

The shooting comes amid an escalating rap beef between the Toronto rapper and Kendrick Lamar, who used a satellite view of Drake's Bridle Path mansion covered in U.S. sex offender registry map pins for the cover art of his diss track, "Not Like Us."

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