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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.
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From Toronto Sun – Toronto & GTA
Ontario’s highest court has upheld second-degree murder convictions against the father and stepmother of Randal Dooley.
A jury convicted Tony and Marcia Dooley in 2002 of murdering the seven-year-old boy in what’s been called one of Canada’s worst child-abuse cases.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
Loud yelling, five or six gunshots and then screams shattered the early-morning quiet as a man collapsed, dying, on the pavement in front of a Bay St. condo tower early Sunday
Hours later, forensic investigation officers were in front of 1001 Bay St., at St. Joseph St., looking for clues to the 3:20 a.m. slaying. The victim was shot in the back.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. The victim has been identified as Ming Yang, 27, of China.