A man was shot and killed leaving Pick 6ix, a downtown Toronto restaurant partially-owned by Drake, over the long weekend.
Jaiden Jackson, 28, was killed while leaving a private party at Pick 6ix Sunday night at around 9 PM, according to Toronto police. The restaurant, located at Yonge and Wellington streets, is co-owned by Drake, his head of security Nessel “Chubbs” Beezer, the Sabah Nissan Group and Antonio Park.
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Jackson was leaving the bar with a woman in a pink or orange dress, heading west on the north side of Wellington street, when he was shot, according to police.
A black Honda Civic had turned left onto Wellington (the wrong way) and then made a U-turn towards the pair when two suspects, each armed, got out and started firing rounds at Jackson.
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Police say Jackson ran down a ramp into an underground parking lot where he was chased by the suspects—the two men who exited the car and the driver—who continued shooting at him. The suspects got back into the car and fled. Jackson was later pronounced dead in hospital.
Drake has not yet issued a statement on the incident. This is not the first time a shooting has been linked to one of the rapper’s events or associates.
On August 4, 2015, two people were killed and three others injured at a shooting at an afterparty for Drake’s OVO Fest held at Toronto’s Muzik nightclub.
Drake did not publicly speak about the shooting for 10 days, at which time he offered his condolences to the families of those killed in the targeted attack.
Last September, Toronto police Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux asked Drake for help in solving the shooting death of Anthony “Fif” Soares, who was killed in the city’s east end.
Soares was a friend of Drake’s affiliated with OVO.
“I certainly would encourage him through his tweets to encourage anybody within the community to come forward with regards to any information that they have that may assist in solving his friend’s murder,” Giroux told reporters. The comment garnered anger from those who felt the cops were placing an unfair burden on Drake to help a police force that has itself been criticized for discriminating against and brutalizing black men.
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