Canada - Matthew Staikos, 37, Toronto/yorkville - Gunned Down May 2018

[Wondergirl]

Police call tech CEO's Yorkville slaying an 'unprovoked attack'
Matthew Staikos, 37, was shot to death from behind earlier this week
CBC News · Posted: Jun 01, 2018 1:18 PM ET | Last Updated: June 2

Matthew Staikos, who died in a brazen shooting in Toronto's upscale Yorkville area on Monday night, was a tech entrepreneur who sold his first company to BlackBerry. (Matthew Staikos/Twitter)


A Toronto homicide detective says a 37-year-old tech CEO was completely defenceless when he was shot to death in upscale Yorkville on Monday night.

Matthew Staikos was shot to death at close range as he was walking on Yorkville Avenue around 11:30 p.m. on Monday. Police say a lone gunman approached Staikos from behind, opened fire, then fled the area in a silver-coloured four-door Mercedes.

Det. Omar Khan called the killing an "unprovoked attack on a defenceless man" at a news conference where he also released surveillance video of the getaway car.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1947719938605551

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[Wondergirl]

It has been speculated that the Mercedes is a 2013 and newer E-63 Class.

There would not be many of those in the Province of Ontario, IMO.

This kind and respected soul was heinously assassinated at the intersection of Toronto's equivalent to Rodeo Drive. Why???

Just absolutely horrific.

LE has WAY more video. Upon doing a google streetview walkabout, there are countless cameras visible.

I can't imagine that there would be a motive other than pure evil.

 

[dotr]

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  WATCH: Police call Yorkville fatal shooting an
  Investigators have said that Staikos was shot from behind at close range on Yorkville Ave.
  
  
  The shooter got away in a silver four-door Mercedes.
  
  
  Police have released surveillance video of the getaway vehicle.
  
  
  The suspect is described as a black male, about 5'10" with a slim to medium build, mid-20s to late-30s.
  
  
  
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[Dushi]

Has there been anything more about this?
Was it totally random?
Was it a robbery?

The car/vehicle is not an uncommon one
Lots of wealth in Ontario.
And lots of very expensive cars on the road

 

[Dushi]

Khan said it appears the suspect intended to shoot Staikos but it is unclear at this time whether or not the suspect and victim knew each other and whether the incident was a “targeted” shooting.

Fatal shooting in Yorkville was ‘unprovoked attack on defenseless man’: police

 

[dotr]

Delete.

 

[Dushi]

Police earlier released a video that showed Staikos walking alongside another man on Yorkville Avenue when a man jumped out of the passenger side of a parked Mercedes, and then followed the two men to a place not in view of the camera. Seconds later, the man is seen running back to the Mercedes and the car then flees southbound on Bay Street.
Toronto police release new surveillance video in murder of tech CEO

The shooter only shot one of them.
Sounds targeted JMO

 

[Wondergirl]

Police earlier released a video that showed Staikos walking alongside another man on Yorkville Avenue when a man jumped out of the passenger side of a parked Mercedes, and then followed the two men to a place not in view of the camera. Seconds later, the man is seen running back to the Mercedes and the car then flees southbound on Bay Street.
Toronto police release new surveillance video in murder of tech CEO

The shooter only shot one of them.
Sounds targeted JMO

Do you have the link for the original video?

Matthew was heavily into exotic cars, and for some reason this sticks out to me as the biggest motive.

I wonder if he raced cars also, as a past time. I have found references to F1 and other car events. He owned a Mercedes and I think his family owned 2 x Mclaren Sports cars.

Matthew Staikos (@matthewstaikos) • Instagram photos and videos

 

[Wondergirl]

Examples of the driving aspect.

Matthew Staikos (@matthewstaikos) • Instagram photos and videos

 

[Dushi]

Do you have the link for the original video?

Matthew was heavily into exotic cars, and for some reason this sticks out to me as the biggest motive.

I wonder if he raced cars also, as a past time. I have found references to F1 and other car events. He owned a Mercedes and I think his family owned 2 x Mclaren Sports cars.

Matthew Staikos (@matthewstaikos) • Instagram photos and videos

The only video of the car that i have seen is the one in the first post

 

[Dushi]

“Khan said there is no doubt the gunman intended to kill Staikos, but he would not say whether the Belleville-area native was targeted.”

“As far as a motive is concerned, I don’t want to speculate,” he said. “There’s no reason to believe (the gunman and Staikos) knew each other,” the Sun reported.

Khan noted that a “male companion has been ‘very cooperative’” and there was no event that provoked the violence.

Greek-Canadian Tech Entrepreneur’s Murder Was “Uprovoked” - The National Herald

He intended to kill him but unsure if it was targeted?
It feels targeted

 

[Dushi]

Khan says investigators are trying to put that together, and hinted they have more information than was released on Friday. "We have collected a lot of video," he said.
Police call tech CEO's Yorkville slaying an 'unprovoked attack' | CBC News

CBC News

interesting comments

 

[Wondergirl]

Khan says investigators are trying to put that together, and hinted they have more information than was released on Friday. "We have collected a lot of video," he said.
Police call tech CEO's Yorkville slaying an 'unprovoked attack' | CBC News

CBC News

interesting comments

Really not alot being released at all.

I wonder if LE are overwhelmed with all the murders in Toronto as of late?

Matthew appears by all accounts, to have been cherished and above reproach for his character, but I can't help but wonder if he didn't pzz off the wrong person.

Again, it seems he was heavily involved in car racing, both in Canada and Greece. Big time $ invested by these parties. Is there a motive related to those circles? How will LE ever get to the bottom of such intricacies if there was? Seems damn near hopeless at this point.

That guy should NOT have been executed point blank. Did you see his brother in the global video at the crime scene? Absolutely gut wrenching.

Rest in peace, Matthew. I hope they get the murderers. There are certainly more than one.

JMO

 

[Dushi]

What witnesses recounted, however, made it sound like an execution, the gunman firing at Staikos from close range, then jumping into a silver Mercedes that sped away southbound.

Detectives can’t say or don’t know if the victim had been targeted, whether he might have been acquainted with the shooter who took his life, plunging family and friends into shock and grief.

Opinion | In Toronto, no neighbourhood is immune to violence

 

[Dushi]

But just beneath the heartfelt distress of some locals who commented to the media afterwards, there was also a whiff of indignation — not over the murder, exactly, but that it should have occurred in so pleasant and tony a milieu. As if such low-life street violence is an interloper thereabouts. They couldn’t have imagined such a thing.

Opinion | In Toronto, no neighbourhood is immune to violence

 

[always reading]

A hired hit?

 

[dotr]

Dec 9 2018
Did same brazen hitman kill mob scion, two Toronto businessmen?
"The Toronto Sun has learned that cops are eyeing a possible connection between the slayings of mob scion Angelo Musitano, veterinary technician Mila Barberi, and the brazen murders of real estate entrepreneur Simon Giannini and tech executive Matthew Staikos."
"Giannini and Staikos had no known links to organized crime.

But in each of the above cases, there are disturbing similarities.

The hitman was cool, quick and deadly."

"In each case, the shooter was a black man described variously as between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10."

"Cops arrested alleged hitman Jabril Abdalla, 27, of Hamilton, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Musitano and Barberi. Two of his alleged accomplices remain at large.

Abdalla is black and was free at the time of each of the murders."
"Canadian mafia doyen James Dubro told the Sun it isn’t unusual for traditional organized crime to farm out its dirty work."
“The mob farming out work to street gangs and the like is not as unusual as it seems,” Dubro said."
"Some of those involved were ridiculous people,” Dubro said.

He added that the traditional organized crime families are finding it hard to find reliable killers and sometimes a bit of cocaine or some cash will do the trick."

 

[Wondergirl]

Dec 9 2018
Did same brazen hitman kill mob scion, two Toronto businessmen?
"The Toronto Sun has learned that cops are eyeing a possible connection between the slayings of mob scion Angelo Musitano, veterinary technician Mila Barberi, and the brazen murders of real estate entrepreneur Simon Giannini and tech executive Matthew Staikos."
"Giannini and Staikos had no known links to organized crime.

But in each of the above cases, there are disturbing similarities.

The hitman was cool, quick and deadly."

"In each case, the shooter was a black man described variously as between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10."

"Cops arrested alleged hitman Jabril Abdalla, 27, of Hamilton, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Musitano and Barberi. Two of his alleged accomplices remain at large.

Abdalla is black and was free at the time of each of the murders."
"Canadian mafia doyen James Dubro told the Sun it isn’t unusual for traditional organized crime to farm out its dirty work."
“The mob farming out work to street gangs and the like is not as unusual as it seems,” Dubro said."
"Some of those involved were ridiculous people,” Dubro said.

He added that the traditional organized crime families are finding it hard to find reliable killers and sometimes a bit of cocaine or some cash will do the trick."

Wow, I totally missed this, thanks Dotr.

 

[dotr]

Dec 21 2020
HUNTER: Mafia expert predicts we should 'expect more blood' in 2021 | Toronto Sun
''Cops say Mila Barberi was in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was shot to death in a gangland hit gone awry. ''
''He expects there will be some loose ends from the Musitano family. These mobsters will join other crime groups — “or they will be eliminated”.

As the battle over Ontario rackets raged from Montreal to Mexico, the criminal landscape had been shifting.

For instance, the traditional Mafia has outsourced its killing to street gangs in deals for cash, guns or drugs.

And there are a multitude of newer players which could mean multicultural mayhem, Dubro said.

Dubro noted that a number of the next generation N’drangheta gangsters are recent immigrants from Italy trying to carve out their slice of the Canadian vice pie.''

 

[dotr]

Jan 11 2021
'Nobody' relative accused of harassing murder victim's family, ex-homicide cop | Toronto Sun
''A decorated former Toronto homicide detective is going public with the onslaught of vile harassment and abuse his family and that of a murder victim has allegedly suffered at the hands of a conspiracy nut relative.

David Perry, who investigated some of this city’s most high-profile murders, told The Toronto Sun on Monday that Gerald (Guy) Brummell, 57, has tormented his relatives, ex-wife, cops, judges and an army of others who have upset him.''

Making the harassment even worse, the family is that of Matthew Staikos, who was murdered in Yorkville on May 28, 2018. The case remains unsolved.

“His father, Nick Staikos, retained my services and the services of my company to assist his family with a number of matters related to the murder of their son,” Perry told the Sun.''