Daylight shooting marks Toronto’s 90th homicide this year — a grisly new record
A man was shot to death in Scarborough on Sunday afternoon, according to Toronto police, a slaying that marks the city’s 90th homicide this year — breaking a record that has stood since 1991.
Paramedics said the victim was suffering from gunshot wounds. He was unconscious and not breathing, and was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police said they found shell casings inside the building.
Victim did not live in building, police say
Detective Paul Worden said Sunday night that the victim was approximately 30 years old. He declined to release more information on the victim’s identity because his next of kin had not yet been notified.
Worden said investigators were continuing to canvass the building on Sunday night.
The victim did not live in the building, Worden said, but added that the deceased had acquaintances in the building and was well known to its residents.
“We do know from the little bit of surveillance video we’ve watched so far that he was with three or four other parties prior to his murder,” he said. The victim was known to police.
Police are now looking at video outside of the building.
“We do have a direction of travel of some people that were seen leaving the building shortly after the murder, and we would like to track their whereabouts,” Worden added.
A massive police presence surrounded the complex Sunday afternoon as officers canvassed units floor by floor. Members of the force’s emergency task force — effectively a SWAT unit — were also called in in the initial aftermath of the shooting.
Record broken
Sunday evening, police towed away a black minivan with no licence plates that was marked as evidence.
Worden said that the vehicle did not belong to the victim and that police do not believe it was directly involved in the crime.
Redes Sociais - Comentários