Following a shooting near rap star Drake’s home earlier this week, a person was arrested by authorities on Wednesday after attempting to break into the rapper’s home.
Toronto Police Service officers were called to Drake’s home around 2 p.m. on Wednesday after a person “attempted to gain entry to the property,” police spokeswoman Ashley Visser confirmed to USA TODAY in an email.
Police could not release the person’s identity because the person was arrested under the Ontario Mental Health Act, meaning the incident is not being treated as a criminal matter. Under the law, authorities can take an arrested person to a doctor for examination if officers believe the person is “obviously suffering from a mental disorder” that could cause serious bodily harm, according to the Ontario government website.
It is not known whether Drake was at home at the time of the trespassing.
USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Drake for comment.
The incident followed a shooting outside Drake’s home on Tuesday morning that left the rapper’s security guard injured.
Drake: Police: Security guard shot in rapper’s house in Toronto
Security guard shot in Drake’s Toronto home
The shooting occurred outside Drake’s home around 2 a.m. Tuesday. When Toronto Police Service officers arrived at the scene, they found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, according to Inspector Paul Krawczyk of the Toronto Police Service’s Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force.
The victim was a security guard standing outside the gate. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries and a suspect fled the scene in a vehicle, police said.
Police confirmed to City News in Canada that Drake was not the injured person, but would not confirm whether he was at home at the time of the shooting.
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Police did not initially release a description of the suspect or the vehicle. The incident in the “One Dance” rapper’s neighborhood occurred while the 37-year-old was making headlines for a highly controversial feud with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar that has been going on for several weeks and has spawned numerous diss tracks.
In Lamar’s diss tracks, the rapper from Compton claimed that Drake had a secret daughter, was addicted to gambling and drugs, that his record company had sex offenders on its payroll and that he was supposed to be sitting in a “cell” with Harvey Weinstein.
Meanwhile, Drake claims that Lamar physically abused his fiancée, that Lamar’s child may not be his and that the Californian rapper is leading a double life full of infidelity.
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