London police charge 2nd teenager in Victoria Hospital ER shooting

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 2:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 12

A 16-year-old lad has been charged with attempted execution successful narration to a shooting that happened extracurricular southwestern Ontario's largest exigency department. 

The teenager, who cannot beryllium identified nether the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is presently successful custody successful a jurisdiction extracurricular of London wherever helium faces charges related to a antithetic matter, constabulary said Thursday. 

The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) was the tract of the shooting that happened astir 2:30 a.m. connected Dec. 14. A truck pulled into the exigency room bay, smashing into a cement pillar. A 2nd conveyance arrived, and aggregate shots rang out, constabulary said.

An 18-year-old antheral from Brampton was charged with six counts, including attempted murder, successful January.  Doneil Josiah Levy-Porter was besides successful custody successful a antithetic jurisdiction, charged with a location penetration and a slope robbery successful the GTA. 

The judicial process for Levy-Porter is acceptable to being successful November, constabulary said, with a preliminary hearing. 

The infirmary shooting left people scrambling for screen wrong the exigency country and renewed calls for amended information measures astatine LHSC. The hospital's interim head, David Musyj, moved to instal metallic detectors extracurricular the emergency, which are present operational.

London constabulary said the 16-year-old is complaint with the following: 

• Attempt murder.
• Occupy centrifugal conveyance with a firearm.
• Possess restricted oregon prohibited firearm knowingly not holding a licence.
• Fail to comply with sentence.