Where are the parents? 12-year-old boy has been charged with seven offenses including attempted murder.

Established in 1834, it was the first local police service created in North America and is one of the oldest police services in the English-speaking world.

Emergency crews responded to calls about a shooting near Mortimer and Donlands avenues in East York around midnight Monday, a Toronto paramedics spokesperson said. A youth was taken to hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.

At about the same time, officers responded to a call about a vehicle theft in the area of Donlands Avenue and O’Connor Drive.

Authorities said they tried to stop a vehicle and shot at it before the driver hit an officer and fled the scene, police said. A Toronto police officer was taken to hospital with serious injuries, which are not considered life threatening, according to the police post.

After police found the vehicle again, the driver was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, as well.

Three people — two 12-year-olds and a 13-year-old — were in the vehicle, which was stolen.

Four police officers — two each in two police vehicles — tried to stop the driver of the stolen vehicle. The driver tried to flee, during which “there was contact made with a police officer and that vehicle.  Multiple shots then fired at the stolen vehicle. The driver took off and abandoned the car at Floyd and Donlands avenues a short distance away before being arrested on foot later.

One youth who was in the car is still at large.

The boys will not be identified due to their age.  They will be punished and will eventually be released.  Is this incident the first step for a career criminal?  Where were the parents. What are the chances that this is a single parent situation