Police are seeking two suspects after a 29-year-old man was shot in the head in Toronto’s west end, marking the city’s 62nd homicide of 2009.

On Tuesday at 10 p.m., Toronto police responded to a call reporting the sound of gunshots in the Gilmour Ave. and Dundas St. W. area.

The deceased was identified as Kenneth Mark of Toronto.

A 23-year-old American man who turned himself in to police on Friday, Dec. 18 is now facing a first degree murder charge.Binh Nguyen walked into 53 Division police station, near Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, at about 6:20 p.m. and confessed to killing his 19-year-old girlfriend.

Police attended the couple’s second-floor apartment near Huron and College streets where they found the woman’s lifeless body.

Officers have charged a 26-year-old man with second-degree murder after a woman’s body was found in a west end apartment.

Antonia Catherine Zammit, 62, was pronounced dead in a unit at 3725 Dundas St. West, near Scarlett Road, around 3am.

Toronto’s homicide tally for the year rose to 59 early Wednesday after at least two people were shot, one fatally, in a fracas at a west-end bar.

Police cruisers flooded the area in response to a 3 a.m. trouble call at Classic Cocktails Bar and Grill on Wilson Avenue, near the intersection of Highways 400 and 401.

The woman who was shot dead just feet away from her two-year-old daughter last night has been identified as a well-known business owner in Toronto’s Columbian community.

Laura Rios, 45, was outside her white pick-up truck at her Weston Rd. apartment building, north of Lawrence Ave., when gunshots rang out at about 8:45 p.m.

The city’s latest murder victim has been identified.

Detectives say Kirk Matthews, 24, was targeted and likely the victim of a drug deal gone bad.

26-year-old Spring Phillips was found dead in her 27th-floor Wellesley St. E. apartment on Saturday. Police have arrested a man she had met just days earlier.

Levi Aggek, 33, is charged with second-degree murder.

Toronto police are seeking the public’s help after a shooting left one man dead and three others wounded at a highrise building near Jane Street and Highway 401 late Thursday.

A lack of working security cameras at the apartment building is posing a challenge for the investigation.

Police said shots were fired around midnight in the 15th-floor stairwell at 30 Falstaff Ave., prompting residents to call 911.

A Pickering man swept up in a May 2004 gang counter-offensive by police has died from gun shot wounds suffered early Sunday.

Alton Reid, 35, was shot during a birthday at the Atlanta Banquet Hall on Ellesmere Rd., Toronto Police said.

Police said hundreds of people were at the party at the time of the shooting.

It’s not clear whether drug kingpin Shane Kelter was in Toronto for business or pleasure last weekend.

What homicide detectives know for sure is that a hit man was waiting for him outside an upscale condo building early Sunday morning.

Police have identified Alex Rundle, 28, as Toronto’s 52nd homicide victim in what they’re describing as a “violent attempt at a home robbery” in a quiet residential enclave on Wincott Drive on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 17.

At a news conference at police headquarters Wednesday afternoon, Det. Sgt. Pauline Gray of the Homicide Squad said police responded to a radio call for a home invasion in progress at 129 Wincott Drive at around 7:30 p.m.

Robert Flagiello was a “great guy” with a “big heart” and he died Wednesday night exhibiting both of those qualities, said his uncle, Domenic Flagiello.

The 18-year-old had just left a recording studio in the Oakwood Ave. and Vaughan Rd. area with a bunch of friends around 8:30 p.m. when gunshots rang out and he ushered his group back into the studio, making sure everyone was in.

On Saturday, November 7, 2009, at 11:05 p.m., police responded to a stabbing call at the New Generation Restaurant, 493 Bloor Street West.

It is alleged that:

• the victim and the accused were co-workers at the restaurant,
• the two men became involved in an argument that escalated,
• the accused stabbed the victim.

The victim was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. The victim has been identified as Ming Yang, 27, of China.

Toronto police have charged three men with first-degree murder in the killing of a Don Jail inmate.

Jeffrey Munro, 32, of Toronto was confined and beaten to death in his cell around 8 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Toronto police detectives say they have located the young roommate of a frail retired dentist found murdered in their Annex apartment, calling him an ‘‘important witness’’ in the case.

Gerald Robert Brown, 67, was discovered by a family friend on Wednesday afternoon in a Victorian home at 114 Bedford Road, near Bloor Street and Avenue Road.

A 24-year-old man is dead after being shot in a parking lot in northwest Toronto’s northwest.

Kevin Phouthonesy was with his girlfriend sitting in his green SUV parked in front of a townhouse on Sentinel Road, in the Keele Street and Finch Avenue area, when he was shot at about 11:30 p.m.

Just before 8 last night, Anne sat in her apartment at the back of McClintock Manor, a seniors’ residence on Pape Avenue near the Danforth, watching The Simpsons. Gary Taitt stood on the fire escape at the nearby Re/Max Hallmark Realty.

“I heard two big bangs,” Anne says. “We don’t get a lot of that around here. I thought it was somebody banging on the balcony.”

Police have arrested a suspect just over a week after 26-year-old Richard Durant was gunned down in front of a west end sports bar.

The deadly gunfire broke out in front of Tom’s Sports Bar and Café at 1146 Davenport Rd. just after 11:30pm Oct. 30.

The 44th homicide victim of 2009 has been identified as 29 year old Andre Daley.

Andre Daley suffered multiple gunshots to the body this past weekend while at the First Choice nightclub in the Keele/Sheppard area. Three other men were injured in this incident and one remains in critical condition.

The Toronto Police Service reports that 27-year-old Chris Skinner was killed in the early morning hours of Oct 18.

Police were called to the Adelaide St E and Victoria St area at 3 am to investigate a report of an injured pedestrian.

Police said in a press release that an altercation took place between Skinner and the occupants of a black SUV. Skinner was knocked to the ground. The attackers then returned to their vehicle and ran Skinner over with it.

Toronto police have identified the city’s latest homicide victim. 19-year-old Bernard Christian Derro was shot on Saturday, October 10, 2009 outside his friend’s apartment building in the Jameson Avenue and King Street West area.

A suspect hunted by police in the beating death of a 71-year-old homeless man has surrendered to Toronto homicide detectives.

He is charged with first-degree murder in the bludgeoning of Donald Constantine Jackson, who was attacked at Pine Hills Cemetery in Scarborough on Sept. 12. Jackson died in hospital six days later.

A 23-year-old Toronto father with a criminal past has had any chance of a future snuffed out by murder.

Sheldon Anthony Henry is Toronto’s 40th homicide victim of 2009 — and the second of the long weekend.

He had been part of the Canadian Training Institute’s “Breaking the Cycle” program, an attempt to help youth to steer clear of crime by connecting them with criminals attempting to change their own lives. His own rap sheet includes weapons, drug and assault convictions, to name a few.

The gunshots rang loud and clear at Front and Sherbourne Sts. in the wee hours yesterday.

Tak-tak, tak-tak-tak tak.

Minutes later, Jerry C., who lives in the neighbourhood, heard police sirens. “There were cruisers and at least two ambulances,” said Jerry, who peeked out of his window. “We didn’t know what had happened.”

He found out hours later that a 21-year-old man had been shot and killed.

Toronto police have identified homicide victim number 38. He is 30-year-old Jamie Hull.

He is the same person police had recently been seeking in connection with a death threat against a woman and her family.

Toronto police homicide detectives said they still don’t know what prompted a drive-by shooting in Rexdale that killed a 34-year-old man on Sunday afternoon.

Bishen Golaub was shot outside a housing complex on Mount Olive Drive, in the Kipling Avenue and Finch Avenue area, shortly before 2 p.m.

Tevane Sean Lennon begged for his life as he looked down the barrel of a gun.

The 22-year-old father of a three-year-old girl was gunned down on Sultan Pool Dr., in the Martin Grove Rd.-Finch Ave. area, at 10:53 p.m. Monday as he was cycling home.

He was carrying groceries and apparently exchanged words with someone at neighbouring Melody Park Public School. When he reached Sultan Pool, he spoke to a man leaning on a car.

A Toronto man who was arrested four years ago in a sweep against the Ardwick Blood Crew and who has a lifetime ban from possessing weapons is now charged in last week’s murder of another young man at a Scarborough housing complex — a killing believed to be a botched street robbery.

Zabiullah Mojaddedi, 22, the city’s 35th murder victim of the year, was gunned down Aug. 5 while trying to stop a robbery by two gunmen in a parkette on Gilder Dr., northeast of Midland and Eglinton Aves., Toronto Police claim.

The latest homicide victim has been identified as 17 year old Patrick John Smith. Police responded to a shooting on George Street near Victoria and Shuter. The victim and the suspect charged were in an apartment together when a handgun accidentally discharged. Quincy Thomas, 18 has been charged with manslaughter.

Homicide detectives have released the name of a man who was gunned down outside a hotel in Yorkville Saturday.

Wesler Fabian, of Ottawa, died after being shot outside the Howard Johnson Hotel on Avenue Rd., just south of Davenport Rd. around 4:30 a.m.

Fabian, 25, was found in a laneway that led to a small back parking lot. He was surrounded by several shell casings.

The Toronto police homicide squad is investigating the shooting death of a young man who was found in a hydro field in the city’s north-west end late Sunday afternoon.

Police believe Nerio Valdez, 17, was targeted by up to four suspects who trapped him on a pathway in a hydro field in the Provence Trail and Cabernet Circle area near Martin Grove Road and Steeles Avenue.

Sebastian Herrera was “a good guy who didn’t deserve to die,” says a friend who was with him the night he was gunned down in a Toronto alley.

Herrera, 23 and between jobs, was celebrating a friend’s birthday with his girlfriend and two pals at the Brunswick House, a popular bar in the Annex, on Friday night.

At about 1 a.m., Herrera and his girlfriend went to retrieve something from his car.

Police are asking Scarborough residents to check their lawns and sidewalks for weapons investigators believe may have been dumped after a Sri Lankan male was killed in an afternoon swarming yesterday.

Around 12:30 p.m., the victim, who has since been identified as 19-year-old Annushath Indrakanthan, was attacked outside a Daisy Mart in a strip plaza on Bonis Ave., near Birchmount Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E.

As many as five men beat him with several weapons, including a hammer, and stabbed him.

Silliphant said about five loud explosions sent him rushing to find out what was “causing all the commotion” and several people at a birthday party next door to take cover. He said partygoers were already starting to assist a youth who had collapsed outside his neighbour’s large home in the Port Union Rd. and Highway 401 area.

“They were standing over the guy that was shot,” Silliphant said.

Insp. Randy Carter said Toronto police were called to the house at around 2 a.m., where they found Tevon Mitchell, 18, suffering from gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital, where he died.

Consuelo Valencia-Russo was supposed to get her hair done Tuesday morning, but she missed the appointment. That afternoon, the 44-year-old French teacher didn’t pick up her son from school.

But when she never came home that night, the family knew something was horribly wrong. Yesterday evening, their fears were confirmed.

Valencia-Russo’s body was found in the trunk of her silver Toyota Corolla. The car was found in a parking lot behind a high-rise apartment building on Jane St. near Chalkfarm Dr.

Kristian Thanapalan never stood a chance.

The 22-year-old, looking forward to beginning his studies at York University in September, was swarmed by as many as 25 men and beaten to death with baseball and cricket bats early Saturday, according to a friend who escaped with only minor injuries.

Two men are dead, two were in custody yesterday — and police want to question many more.

Toronto’s 24th and 25th homicide victims of the year had spent the night on the Enterprise 2000 party boat before meeting their fate early Sunday morning.

Despite the small number of witnesses who came forward, investigators were certain yesterday that Andy James, 26, and Brandon Ramdeen, 27, were knifed in a Cherry St. parking lot after the boat docked because of an argument that started during the cruise.

Two men are dead, two were in custody yesterday — and police want to question many more.

Toronto’s 24th and 25th homicide victims of the year had spent the night on the Enterprise 2000 party boat before meeting their fate early Sunday morning.

Despite the small number of witnesses who came forward, investigators were certain yesterday that Andy James, 26, and Brandon Ramdeen, 27, were knifed in a Cherry St. parking lot after the boat docked because of an argument that started during the cruise.

Toronto police have issued an arrest warrant in connection with the city’s 23rd homicide of the year.

The body of a man was found behind a furniture store at 1168 Caledonia Rd., just after 7:30 a.m.

“Investigators have identified Edward Scheniman, 41, as wanted in this homicide,” police said in a news release. The release said he is “extremely dangerous.”

A man in his 70s was found dead in a west-end apartment yesterday after a man allegedly confessed at a downtown homeless shelter to his killing.

The bizarre murder unfolded after police were called to the Good Shepherd on Queen St. E., just east of Parliament St., around 11 a.m. to talk to a 23-year-old man who had “confessed” to the slaying to “a brother”.

The man directed officers to the grisly discovery soon after, police allege.

The man was taken into custody at the mission while officers from 12 Division were dispatched to a 19th-floor condo at 85 Emmett Ave., near Jane St. and Eglinton Ave. W. Once there, they found the victim suffering from “several” stab wounds, police said.

Toronto police have identified the city’s latest homicide victim.

Ayoob Abdulgadir Aden, 16, of Toronto, was stabbed and killed on Sunday near Dixon Road in the west end.

Police were called at about 5 a.m. after reports of gunshots.

Robert George Brown was doused with gasoline and set on fire. The 44-year-old man was attacked in his backyard during an argument with another man. The victim managed to extinguish the flames, but died later in hospital.

A man has been charged in the fatal stabbing of his sister at a home near Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue in Toronto on Wednesday.

Jamila Hassan, 27, died after being rushed to hospital.

Toronto police spokeswoman Const. Wendy Drummond said police were called to a home just before noon after reports of a woman “possibly without vital signs and a man there with injuries as well.”

Homicide investigators allege the 46-year-old man got into an argument at a relative’s Ashdale Ave. home, near Coxwell Ave. and Gerrard St. E., “which led to a physical altercation,” on May 9.

“(Jolicoeur) was struck, he took himself to hospital and was treated for his injuries,” Toronto Police Const. Wendy Drummond said.

He later suffered a heart attack, went back to hospital and died May 15.

Residents in the area near the city’s latest shooting death say people likely know who killed Adrian Johnston but possibly fear meeting the same result themselves.

“People know but people are not talking. People are scared for their life, for their family, protection-wise,” resident Horace Sharp told CTV Toronto on Wednesday.

Police are looking into the circumstances of the city’s latest murder, one they believe stemmed from an argument inside a west end rooming house.

Samuel Oliveira Junior, 46, was knifed in the chest overnight near the intersection of Brock Ave. and Dundas St. West. He was found lying on the street at about 2:30am Tuesday, and apparently lacked vital signs at the time.

EMS crews performed CPR on him and rushed him to St. Michael’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A young man waiting for a bus home last night is Toronto’s latest homicide victim — and the third to be gunned down in the city’s west end in less than two weeks.

Jarvis St. Remy, 18, was waiting for a bus after a night of watching TV at a best friend’s apartment on Dundas St. W., west of Scarlett Rd.

Two people walked up as he stood alone on the north side of Dundas, before shots were fired around 10:45 p.m., Toronto Police said.

Police believe it was a targeted hit aimed at a 29-year-old waiting at a bus stop. And now that  shocking daylight shooting near Jane and Eglinton at the dinner hour Wednesday has turned into the city’s 15th homicide.

Omar Waite died in hospital from his wounds Thursday, but who targeted him and why remains a mystery.

Officers knocked on Mitchell’s door around 8 p.m. on Tuesday to deliver the news. Lewis had been shot in an alley just off Dunraven Dr., near Keele St. and Rogers Rd.

Witnesses reported hearing him shout, “Don’t disrespect me,” before shots were fired at 6:30 p.m. Lewis was struck in the back and buttocks and later pronounced dead in hospital.

By yesterday morning, two young men, 18 and 17, were in custody. One was apprehended near the scene next to a dumpster. A gun was also recovered.

Toronto police have released the name of the 19-year-old man who was stabbed this morning in Leslieville.

Michael Minott, 19, was pronounced dead at hospital around 2:30 a.m. Friday.

The victim was stabbed repeatedly inside an apartment on Jones Ave., just south of Dundas St. E. The apartment is the home of Minott’s girlfriend. The suspect has two young children with the woman.

A Scarborough woman stabbed to death in a domestic dispute had recently separated from her husband, a police source has confirmed.

The husband came and went from the family’s apartment on Eppleworth Rd., near Kennedy Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E., the source said.

Police went to the first-floor apartment after receiving a call for a domestic disturbance shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday. They found Pamela Okee Apoko dead, and a man wielding a knife.

The owner of a scrap metal business in the city’s north-west end was murdered, police said today.

The body of Rajeswaren Saravanamuthu, 39, of Toronto, was found yesterday after Toronto Police were called to the industrial unit at 147 Norfinch Dr. around 3 p.m.

Police towed a high-end Lexus SUV from the Hwy. 400 and Finch Ave. scene around 9:30 p.m. yesterday, but would not say how it was connected to the case.

Toronto’s latest homicide victim was shot in the chest and struck by a car which then fled the scene of the murder, according to surveillance video taken from a security camera outside a Scarborough restaurant.

The Little Ochie Restaurant, located on Kennedy Road near Lawrence Avenue, was equipped with security cameras inside and outside of the premises, Det. John Biggerstaff told reporters Thursday morning.

The cameras captured Kaser “Kerry” St. Louis coming into the restaurant shortly before 3 a.m. with a group of friends. A short time later, St. Louis and his friends were seen getting into an altercation with another group of men who were sitting inside the restaurant.

A Toronto father had to drive to a morgue Friday to identify his son, 22-year-old Daniel Da Silva — the city’s ninth homicide victim of 2009.

Police found Da Silva behind the wheel of his $80,000 BMW sport utility vehicle on Friday evening.

He had been shot several times at close range. A passenger had jumped out of the vehicle, fearing he too might have be shot.

Toronto’s eighth homicide victim of 2009 has been identified as Peter Bowen, 20, of Toronto.

Bowen was found last night around 7 p.m. suffering from gunshot wounds to the chest. He was lying in the driveway of 345 Driftwood Ave. near Jane St. and Finch Ave. W.

Bowen was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Toronto police say drugs and robbery are the motives behind the city’s latest homicide.

Det. Sgt. Dan Sheppard told reporters at a morning news conference that a surveillance camera captured two people leaving a Scarborough building minutes after entering the complex from another entrance. In the same time span, a 30-year-old man was gunned down in his ground-floor apartment.

The victim, Alexis Eracleous, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

The shooting happened just after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at 11 Antrim Crescent,  in the Kennedy Road and Highway 401 area.

Toronto’s latest murder victim is a 26-year-old man who checked himself into hospital after being involved in a shooting over the weekend.

Jahmelle Grant, a Toronto resident, was shot outside a clothing store on Weston Road, near Lawrence Avenue, Sunday morning just after 7:30 a.m.

A man who narrowly avoided being struck by a bullet that fatally wounded his friend earlier this week is co-operating with authorities, but hasn’t illuminated a motive for the killing or led police to a suspect.

The witness contacted investigators after 23-year-old Basil Bryan of Toronto was shot to death Tuesday. The two were walking south along Keele St., outside an auto body shop near Eglinton Ave. W., when shots rang out around 10:30 p.m.

Kevin Boateng may have had his run-ins with police, but behind his tough facade was a warm heart, a “lovely boy,” his heartbroken family said tonight.

The 18-year-old was found dying on busy Davenport Rd., just east of Old Weston Rd., less than a kilometre away from home, just after 11 p.m. Friday.

By Toronto homicide records, he will be remembered as the fourth to be slain this year. But to his family, he was simply a love of their life, stolen away too soon.

A neighbour who said he was “upset” about the slaying of an elderly woman in her apartment the day after her death is now charged with her murder.

Mohammad Hamade, 41, who lives two doors down from the site of Toronto’s third homicide of the year, spoke publicly last week about Marion Lyons, 81.

Toronto police confirmed this afternoon that Evelyn Alfaro Mendez, found slumped behind the wheel of her SUV Sunday night, is Toronto’s second homicide victim of the year, following an autopsy this morning.

The autopsy revealed that Mendez died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Johnny Gewarges Youkhana, the city’s first murder victim of the year, argued with a man who would be his killer inside a North York massage parlour.

The angry killer walked about the spa lobby early yesterday holding a handgun in his right hand, in plain view of patrons, staff and a surveillance camera.

But no one called the police.