Dawn stands behind her bathroom window inches away from where the bullet smashed through the glass Saturday, Toronto. (Stan Behal/Sun Media)

TORONTO - Dawn was at a friend's memorial service when a bullet sailed through her bathroom window, pierced a hole in her blue shower curtain and lodged in the wall above her toilet.

The 47-year-old woman couldn't help but think yesterday that had she been rinsing shampoo from her hair when the Weston gunplay broke out, as she was when she noticed the 20-mm bullet hole next to her head, she wouldn't be alive to talk about it.

"I could have been shot in my head for doing nothing, for being in my apartment," Dawn said of the Friday night gunfire that left her so scared that she didn't want her last name published. "What's going on in Toronto? I used to feel really safe in Toronto. Not anymore. Not anymore."

DRIVE-BY SHOOTING

The bullet, which remained so deep in Dawn's second-floor apartment wall that police left it behind as a souvenir, was just one of about 10 slugs investigators believe were fired during a drive-by shooting at Weston Rd. and Victoria Ave., south of Lawrence Ave., at about 9:30 p.m. Friday, somehow sparing any injury.

One vehicle sprayed with bullets was being driven by a man who sped away from the scene and drove straight to 12 Division police station with his shot-up vehicle, Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. John Matthews said. It was unknown if he was the target.

A 2002 black Mercedes ML500 sitting in the lot of Wholesale Auto Brokers across from Dawn's apartment also took a few bullets. "Someone was coming to buy that car today," manager Baber Hussain said, standing next to a swept-up pile of shattered glass.

A TTC bus was going south on Weston when the driver heard the sound of gunshots, Sgt. Patrick Newman said.

It wasn't until Keele subway station that a bullet was found lodged in the metal framing of the bus, above a passenger-side window, Newman said.

This, 24 hours after a stray bullet flew through the window of a TTC bus in the Jane St. and Sheppard Ave. W. area, striking a 25-year-old passenger in his shoulder.

"We could have had several homicides as a result of this gunplay at Weston and Victoria," Newman said. "There's no conscience in these shootings. These people don't have any consciences whatsoever."

Many residents on the small, dead-end Victoria Ave. said yesterday they are too scared to walk outside at night, especially with kids.

"We're fed up," said one mother. "It's just getting too much. Too much ... This is the ninth or tenth time since summer I've heard gunshots."

Six months ago and just up Weston Rd., a five-year-old girl survived a bullet to the chest after a gunman opened fire during a barbecue on Bellevue Cres. "Give it up, please," Dawn said in a message to Friday night's gunman. "It's not worth it to spend the rest of your life in jail, for what, killing a baby or a child or a mom or a dad"

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-1200 or Crime Stoppers.

TAMARA.CHERRY@SUNMEDIA.CA