A second person has died in hospital following a mass capturing in Etobicoke on Sunday evening, police say.
Police say an post-mortem must be carried out to find out explanation for loss of life.
“We can’t confirm that it’s a homicide and related to the shooting until that is complete,” Const. Ashley Visser, spokeperson for the police, stated in an e mail on Wednesday.
Five folks have been shot in a parking zone on the North Albion Collegiate Institute, close to the nook of Mount Olive Drive and Kipling Avenue.
One of the 5 died in hospital that evening. Police have recognized that man as Delroy “George” Parkes, 61. Police stated the 4 different injured folks had both life-altering or non-life-threatening accidents.
Visser stated police won’t launch the identification of the second person who died except investigators deem the loss of life to be a murder.
Police have stated a bunch of males have been gathered on the parking zone after a soccer recreation, when a darkish pickup truck pulled in.
Two suspects then received out and shot on the males earlier than taking off in the truck, police have stated.
Police say they don’t imagine the suspects and victims knew one another.
Newz9 obtained surveillance video exhibiting a police automobile following a dark-coloured truck in the realm Sunday, then chasing suspects on foot. A police supply instructed Newz9 that investigators haven’t any direct proof tying the truck, which was stolen, to the capturing presently. A forensics group can be analyzing the automobile.
Newz9 has obtained two angles of surveillance video exhibiting police following a truck that will have been concerned in Sunday’s mass capturing in Etobicoke, then chasing suspects on foot. A police supply says investigators haven’t any direct proof tying the truck, which was stolen, to the capturing presently. The forensics group is analyzing the automobile.
On Monday, Parkes’s daughter and spouse spoke to the media, saying he was a very good man a lot cherished by his household.
Heather Parkes, his spouse, had a message for the shooters: “Turn yourself in. Just turn yourself in. It’s not fair, Our world was taken from us for no reason… I want justice.”
Investigators are nonetheless looking for suspects and are asking for the general public to come back ahead if they’ve any info.