Sep 11, '24
''After more than 30 years, Toronto police say they are now close to solving the murder of an East York arcade owner who was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat on Christmas Eve, 1988.
Police previously said 50-year-old Nick Gournis was working late at the arcade he owned and operated on Kingston Road, near Victoria Park Avenue, when two robbers entered the business and attacked him.
“We believe that between about 10 p.m. and midnight that two people had actually entered his premises and proceeded to try to rob him and unfortunately, it looks like they resorted to extreme violence in order to exact their toll,” Det. Sgt. Steve Smith told CP24.com on Wednesday.''
Now decades later, thanks to advancements in technology, Smith said the cold case unit is in the process of putting together an offender profile based on DNA found at the scene.
“A lot of these older cases… DNA wasn't really a thing back then, and if it was, you needed large portions of DNA to develop a profile,” Smith said.
“There's a lot of cases that we can go back to and utilize evidence that was at the scene to develop profiles of the offender.”
He added that police who previously investigated the homicide already put together a solid list of persons of interest.
Cold case unit hopes to soon solve the 1988 murder of an East York arcade owner
After more than 30 years, Toronto police say they are now close to solving the murder of an East York arcade owner who was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat on Christmas Eve, 1988.
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Police previously said 50-year-old Nick Gournis was working late at the arcade he owned and operated on Kingston Road, near Victoria Park Avenue, when two robbers entered the business and attacked him.
“We believe that between about 10 p.m. and midnight that two people had actually entered his premises and proceeded to try to rob him and unfortunately, it looks like they resorted to extreme violence in order to exact their toll,” Det. Sgt. Steve Smith told CP24.com on Wednesday.''
Cold case unit hopes to soon solve the 1988 murder of an East York arcade owner
After more than 30 years, Toronto police say they are now close to solving the murder of an East York arcade owner who was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat on Christmas Eve, 1988.
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“A lot of these older cases… DNA wasn't really a thing back then, and if it was, you needed large portions of DNA to develop a profile,” Smith said.
“There's a lot of cases that we can go back to and utilize evidence that was at the scene to develop profiles of the offender.”
He added that police who previously investigated the homicide already put together a solid list of persons of interest.