Security guard shot outside Drake’s mansion in Toronto

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By Herb Scribner

May 8, 2024 — 8.23am

A information defender moving astatine Drake’s mansion successful Toronto has been hospitalised with superior injuries aft being changeable extracurricular the residence.

The unfortunate was lasting extracurricular the home’s entranceway erstwhile the shooting occurred, Toronto constabulary inspector Paul Krawczyk said astatine a quality league extracurricular Drake’s palatial residence. The shooting was captured connected video, helium said, but the shooter fled, and a motive has not been determined.

Drake was not thought to beryllium harmed successful the shooting.

Krawczyk said helium couldn’t corroborate whether Drake was location during the incidental but said the rapper’s squad has been cooperating with the investigation. There is nary denotation that the shooting harmed Drake, who has been progressive successful an progressively hostile, extremely nationalist rap feud with Kendrick Lamar.

Police were called astir 2am Eastern clip to the intersection of Lawrence and Bayview avenues adjacent the upscale Bridle Path neighbourhood. The unfortunate was reportedly transported with a gunshot wounded to Sunnybrook Hospital, wherever unit declined to remark to The Washington Post.

It’s unclear wherefore constabulary initially responded to that intersection, which is astir a mile from Drake’s mansion. Several hours later, Canadian quality organisations showed a dense constabulary beingness extracurricular Drake’s home, with CTV News reporting that the country had been taped disconnected with caution portion successful the courtyard.

The shooting comes amid a heavyweight feud betwixt Drake and Lamar. Over the past respective days, the 2 rap giants person traded idiosyncratic insults done songs, disparaging each other’s household members, careers, upbringings and lifestyles.

Lamar’s astir caller dis track, Not Like Us, utilized a outer representation of Drake’s mansion arsenic its screen art. The opus accused Drake of paedophilia, among different unsupported claims. After the opus dropped, Gizmodo reported, immoderate radical manipulated Google Maps to use mendacious labels to the mansion and different homes successful the area, including “owned by Kendrick” and “ChildMOE-lester.”

Drake himself has often mentioned his location determination successful his songs, including with his ain 2021 way 7am connected Bridle Path. He besides offered a circuit of the residence successful his Toosie Slide euphony video. Representatives for Drake declined to comment.

The mansion was a peculiar 1 for Drake, who told Zane Lowe successful an interrogation with Apple Music successful 2016 that the location would “change my life,” calling it his “life’s work.”

Drake’s residence was reportedly built with information successful mind. When helium archetypal purchased the 2 acres of onshore successful 2015, Drake’s squad started filing exemption paperwork truthful they could physique what the Fader described arsenic an “insane” mansion, featuring a hoops court, spa retreat, gym, basement pool, rooftop terrace and 5 bedrooms. In 2019, the metropolis of Toronto allowed the rapper to physique information walls doubly arsenic precocious arsenic bylaws allow, according to the National Post.

Despite the accrued security, a pistillate with a weapon allegedly assaulted a information defender extracurricular the mansion successful 2021, according to the Toronto Sun. The pistillate was arrested extracurricular the mansion, but it’s unclear whether charges were filed.

In 2018, a antheral was fatally changeable astatine Drake’s Pick 6ix nine successful Toronto, CTV News reported. Drake was allegedly astatine the edifice that day, but it was unclear whether helium was determination astatine the clip of the shooting, according to CTV.

Three years earlier, 2 radical died from a shooting astatine an after-party pursuing Drake’s OVO Fest performance successful Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. Drake, who seldom speaks retired connected governmental matters, condemned the shooting successful a blog post.

“I americium plagued and pained by the unit that continues to escalate successful our city,” helium wrote successful 2015. “I look into the eyes of truthful galore young radical and I privation to spot them each radiance arsenic agleam arsenic they perchance tin successful this lifetime. I promote my procreation to amusement arsenic overmuch worth and gratitude arsenic you tin for the lives we person been gifted.”

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