Toronto Police are investigating a shooting on a subway train at Spadina station they say sent a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the leg to hospital.
Sergeant Bill Richards said the shooting occurred on a northbound subway car after the girl and a male got into an argument.
The girl, who hasn't been identified, is currently being treated in hospital for wounds police say aren't life threatening.
The shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. near Spadina station, near the city's core.
Earlier news reports had said the girl was caught in the middle of a gun fight between two groups.
Police were called to the scene at 8:48 p.m. after reports of gunfire, where one victim, believed to be a female teenager, was found bleeding on the Northbound train.
Toronto EMS said responding paramedics found one woman bleeding from the leg. She was transported to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. EMS officials said they could not confirm that the victim had been shot.
CTV reported that the incident was believed to have started in the north end of the city and that the victim and a second female had been arguing with a male suspect and another male for most of the trip before the gunman open fired on the train full of riders making their way downtown.
Yellow police tape cordoned off the sidewalk entrances to the subway on Spadina Avenue for more than 90 minutes.
Police said the investigation is continuing.
Former Toronto city councillor Rob Davis was just about to board the train and was interviewed by television reporters. He said he saw young people running from the train and ran upstairs in the station to call police. He returned to the trains to see the young woman who had been lying in the last train. "It was pretty frightening," he said.
Subway was suspended along the north-south, Yonge-University-Spadina line between St. Clair West Station and St. George Station, according to the TTC website. However the Bloor-Danforth line, running east-west, was still running and making stops at Spadina.
Police escorted passengers who exited eastbound and westbound trains out of the station.
Police at the scene said that portion of the route would remain closed until at least Saturday morning while investigators combed the scene. Shuttle buses are running along the route.
With a report from Canadian Press