London 'No one should have survived what I went through': Stratford shooting victim speaks out Share IMAGES IN THIS ARTICLE MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME READERS A Stratford man shot in the head during a gun rampage that left two dead and two injured is speaking out. David Tokley will soon mark his 44th birthday inside a London hospital where he is recovering from skull and brain surgery, few expected he would survive. Wanting to show CTV News London the wound, he pointed to the staples along the right side of his skull — there are too many to count.
But David is a fan of numbers these days. Especially after police and medical officials told him they feared his number was up. "Come on, I beat the odds.
Like, who would have thought? No one should have survived what I went through. No one," he shared. The Aug.
1 incident, which Stratford police have said related to an ongoing neighbour dispute , took the life of 36-year-old Jonathan Bennett and injured Stephanie Irvine and Tokley. The shooter later turned the gun on himself. David's heart goes out to Irvine on the loss of Bennett.
He said he knew the couple well. The night of the shooting he'd been socializing at their home, just a few doors down from his. He said he left the residence and let his dog 'Max' out around 10:25 p.
m. About 20 minutes later, while bringing Max back into his apartment he was startled. "Next thing you know, all I hear is bang, bang, bang.
And I knew something was wrong. I just whipped it out the door." A.