20-year-old Toronto man charged in Waterloo pellet gun shootings

A 20-year-old man has been charged in connection with three BB/pellet gun woundings on Labour Day, 2015, according to a release from Waterloo Regional Police Services.

AToronto resident attending Wilfrid Laurier University will be in court Wednesday to face:

• Two counts of Assault with a Weapon.
• Possession of a Weapon Dangerous to the Public.
• Aggravated Assault.

According to police, at separate times on the holiday Mondaythree pedestrianswere walking along King Streetin Waterloo's University district when they were struck with projectiles from a gas-powered pellet pistol.

Shooting timeline

Police say the threeincidentstook place at various times on Labour Day, Sept. 7, 2015:

• 1:00 a.m., a 19-year-old woman was wounded in the collarbone.
• 2:00 a.m., a 19-year-old woman was wounded in the wrist.
• 5:30 p.m., a 19-year-old woman suffered serious injury to an eye. Sheis still receiving medical treatment for that wound.

Police have not said whether these incidents are related to an earlier BB/pellet shooting in August, where a driver was shot in the head on Union Street near Moore Ave.