A 16-year-old is facing an attempted murder charge in connection with a shooting at a downtown Tim Hortons Sunday evening. Detectives say they also tracked another teenager who was at the Tim Hortons when the shooting happened, but wasn't directly involved. Youth crime down, but violent youth crime risingGun violence numbers are surging in Hamilton, with 23 shootings so far this year. Of those 508 people, 220 were charged with a violent crime, while 56.7 per cent received an "extrajudicial measure" instead. Girt said that rise in violent youth crime was largely as a result of "low-level assaults."

Source: CBC News May 14, 2019 18:11 UTC