Gun Policy News
Canadian Teen's Slaying Kindles US-Style Gun Control Debate
17 January 2006
Washington Post Foreign Service
TORONTO — Jane Creba, 15, was browsing the Boxing Day sales with her older sister when she started crossing the street to look for sneakers. She stepped into a spray of gunfire between rival teenage gangs in the middle of the busy downtown shopping district.
Creba died from a single bullet, and six other people were wounded. The Dec. 26 incident climaxed a year of sensational shootings here, propelling the issue of gun violence to the top of the national debate... (GunPolicy.org)