A woman named Danielle Kane together with her boyfriend was having dinner at an Italian Restaurant on Danford Avenue. They heard sounds like fireworks down the street. The wait staff of the restaurant told us that there was a gunman in the area and we should go inside. A terrified woman entered the restaurant and announced that a person was injured outside. The boyfriend of Kane, who works as an emergency room nurse, went out and provides first aid to the injured person. Kane also decided to go out of the restaurant and help her boyfriend.
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According to Kane, I have taken one or two steps out of the restaurant when I saw a person across the street. The man had his arms down and suddenly he raised his arm up with a gun in his arms. Then Kate realized he was the gunman. The gunman started firing. In a few minutes Kate became one of the 15 victims of the shooting and claimed the lives of an 18 year old woman named Reece Fallon and Juliana Kozis a 10 year old girl. A bullet hit the stomach and diaphragm of Kate and shattered an area of her spine. Her boyfriend together with other bystanders transferred Kate inside the restaurant and immediately provided first aid on Kate. Finally the paramedics and police arrived and brought Kate immediately to the hospital for further treatment and she was scheduled with 3 surgeries.
According to the police, after the shooting incident, the gunman named Hussain died after he shot himself to the head.
The spokesperson of Kane’s family and also a cousin said, the family is completely shocked by the shooting incident and it would be a long road to recovery for Kane. She cannot do things that she loves to do like hiking and dancing. She now faces one of the challenges in life and heavily sedated in the intensive care unit at a hospital in Toronto. She is expected to survive and a possibility that she can never walk again.
The family of Kane is grateful for the first responders who provided first aid, emergency room staff and the trauma surgeon, Dr. Najma Ahmed who saved the life of Kane.
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