Too late to edit this post, sorry- had not meant to include a link to a different murder beside HS's name on the above wiki list, but now that it is done, intrigued by the date of this man's murder & vaguely recall it referenced somehow with this case.FWIW..
''While homicide rates in Toronto were relatively low for several years, they started to increase in 2016 until Toronto experienced the highest homicide rate among major Canadian cities in 2018;[14] in that single year, the city surpassed the homicide rate of New York City.[4] Homicide rates declined again in 2019; when compared across major metropolitan areas, the Greater Toronto Area ranked ninth in Canada with a homicide rate of 2.26 per 100,000.[15]''
- This page was last edited on 27 July 2023, at 22:10 (UTC).
- Crime in Toronto - Wikipedia
''Today, the multicultural face of Toronto is well reflected in the city's underworld, which includes everything from Jamaican posses to Eastern European bratvas to American biker gangs. The genesis of many foreign criminal organizations in Toronto has often been linked to the drug trade, as with the large influx of heroin and various Asian triads during the 1970s,[131] or cocaine and South American cartels in the 1980s.[132] These criminal groups, however, occasionally have a political bent as well, as with the Tamil organized crime groups such as the VVT and rival AK Kannan gangs, which warred with each other in the city's streets during the 1990s and early 2000s over the brown heroin trade.[133] In recent decades, Toronto has also seen an infiltration of major American street gangs such as the Bloods, Crips, and Mara Salvatrucha.''
- Toronto Homicide Victim List 2017 - Homicide Canada
- December
''57- Malique Ellis
58 – Ninon (Nina) Hardie
59 – Kwsie Blair
60 – Jayanthy Seevaratnam
61 – Mark Young
62 – Honey ShermanUpdate: Toronto Homicide 61 - Man shot to death inside a Toronto Community Housing building - Homicide Canada
63 – Barry Sherman
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64 – Dean Lisowick
65 – Selim Esen
66 – Andrew Kinsman,
Probably unrelated but one never knows, 3 targeted murders within day/s?.. started a thread, fwiw, imo, speculation etc.
CANADA - Canada- Mark Young, 52, fatally shot in a possibly targeted shooting, 25 Henry Lane Terrace near St Lawrence Market, Toronto, 16 December 2017
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/esplanade-homicide-victim-1.4453867 'Mark Young, 52, was shot to death early Saturday. Police say he may have been targeted in the shooting. (Toronto Police) Toronto Police have identified a man killed in a weekend shooting near St. Lawrence Market. Mark...
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