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A shooting at a U.S. Consulate has thrust a neighborhood with a troubled past into the center of an emerging criminal phenomenon: young guns for hire as gig workers in the underworld economy. Outside Martha Eaton Way in Toronto. The apartment towers on Martha Eaton Way loom over an urban creek in north Toronto, a working-class part of the city where ethnic stores dominate the strip malls. Violent episodes have cast a long shadow over the neighborhood, known as “Creek” to the young people for whom the address can confer clout.
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Some remember that an 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet through his bedroom window last summer, and that a teenager was fatally shot at the pizza shop next door a year before that.
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A shooting at a U.S. Consulate has thrust a neighborhood with a troubled past into the center of an emerging criminal phenomenon: young guns for hire as gig workers in the underworld economy. Outside Martha Eaton Way in Toronto. The apartment towers on Martha Eaton Way loom over an urban creek in north Toronto, a working-class part of the city where ethnic stores dominate the strip malls. Violent episodes have cast a long shadow over the neighborhood, known as “Creek” to the young people for whom the address can confer clout.
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