Etobicoke
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Toronto Police Charge Rushon Powell, 25, With First-Degree Murder and Shakurwa Jeffrey, 25, With Accessory After the Fact to Murder in the Death of Marcus Charles, 32, and Say Devondre Hall, 25, Is Wanted on a Canada-Wide Warrant for First-Degree Murder (October 5, 2026)
Toronto police say Rushon Powell, 25, is charged with first-degree murder and Shakurwa Jeffrey, 25, with accessory after the fact to murder in the death of Marcus Charles, 32, found in a burning vehicle near Reesor Road in Scarborough. Devondre Hall, 25, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder.
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A Man Was Shot Inside a House on Botfield Avenue at Twenty Minutes to One in the Morning and Walked Out of the Record Nameless: Toronto Police Have a Victim in Hospital With Serious but Non-Life-Threatening Injuries, No Suspect Information of Any Kind, and No Release (October 1, 2026)
A man was found inside a home in Etobicoke with a gunshot wound early on October 1 after Toronto police were called to the Kipling Avenue and Burnhamthorpe Road area. Police describe his injuries as serious and non-life-threatening and have released no information on possible suspects.
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The Car Was Shot Up, It Hit a Tree, and Whoever Was Driving It Was Gone Before the First Officer Arrived: Toronto Police Close International Boulevard at Half Past Four in the Morning and Are Looking for a Driver They Cannot Describe (October 1, 2026)
First reported Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 6:52 a.m. Eastern by Codi Wilson of CP24 and CTV News Toronto. At approximately 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 1, 2026, Toronto police found a vehicle that had struck a tree at International Boulevard and Carlingview Drive in Etobicoke, near Toronto Pearson International Airport. Police said the vehicle…
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Forty-Two Days After He Was Shot in the Face Walking to Work, the Man Has a Name and the Street Has Another Set of Bullet Holes: Edward Chikosa Is Identified as the Kipling and Finch Victim, and a Neighbouring Doorway on Silverstone Drive Was Hit on Sunday Night (September 29, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s August 18, 2026 briefing on two shootings in one pocket of Rexdale. The man found with a gunshot wound in north Etobicoke that morning has been identified for the first time, by himself rather than by police: Edward Chikosa, a generator technician and father of two, shot in the face outside…
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One Car Was Rented and the Other Was Stolen: Toronto Police Name Mohamud Kheyre, 30, as the Second Man Shot Dead and Burned, Six Days After the Fires, and Still Will Not Say the Two Killings Are One File (September 27, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 25, 2026 briefing identifying Marcus Charles. The second man found shot dead inside a burning vehicle in Toronto has been identified as Mohamud Kheyre, 30, in a Toronto Police Service release published Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 2:53 p.m. Eastern under case number 2026-1994013, with an image released. Six days…
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A Fingerprint Gave Them the First Name in Four Days, and It Belonged to a Man From the Same End of the City Where His Car Was Burned: Toronto Police Identify Marcus Charles, 32, and Say Both Victims Were Targeted (September 25, 2026)
Toronto Police Service news release published Friday, September 25, 2026 at 12:42 p.m. Eastern under case number 2026-1994013, with reporting by Codi Wilson of CTV News Toronto and CP24 updated at 1:10 p.m. Eastern. Follow-up to this site’s earlier September 25, 2026 briefing. One of the two men found dead inside burning vehicles in Scarborough…
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They Were Shot Before the Cars Were Lit: Autopsies Turn the Scarborough and Etobicoke Vehicle Fires Into Two Homicides, and Toronto Police Still Will Not Say the Two Are Connected (September 25, 2026)
First reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 10:06 a.m. Eastern by Codi Wilson of CTV News Toronto and CP24, updated at 12:43 p.m. Eastern following a Toronto Police Service news conference. Follow-up to this site’s September 24, 2026 briefing. Autopsies have determined that both people found dead inside burning vehicles in Scarborough and Etobicoke on…
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There Was a Body in Each Car: the Homicide Squad Was Notified the Morning of the Scarborough and Etobicoke Vehicle Fires, and the Two Scenes Are Ninety Minutes Apart at Opposite Ends of Toronto (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 22, 2026 briefing on two overnight vehicle fires in Scarborough and Etobicoke, which recorded no injuries because the early account it was built on carried none. This file was originally reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 6:27 a.m. Eastern by Codi Wilson of CP24 and CTV News Toronto, updated at…
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Eight Rounds Into the Front of a Closed Pizza Shop at Twenty Past Four in the Morning: Gunfire Damages a North Etobicoke Business Near Humber College Boulevard, and Toronto Police Have Published Nothing (September 1, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 6:50 a.m. EDT by CP24, in a piece by Codi Wilson, and carried later the same morning by CTV News Toronto at 12:08 p.m. EDT in a report by Steve Ryan. Toronto police were called at approximately 4:20 a.m. Tuesday for gunfire in the Humber College Boulevard and…
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Seven Counts Off One Stop, and the Last of Them Is Failing to Comply With a Release Order: Toronto’s Public Safety Response Team Charges Audric Salau, 18, With Carrying a Loaded Prohibited Firearm Near Dixon and Kipling (September 1, 2026)
The Toronto Police Service published this file on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 9:43 p.m. under case 2026-1824714. Officers with the Public Safety Response Team were in the Dixon Road and Kipling Avenue area of north Etobicoke on Monday, August 31, 2026 at approximately 7 p.m. working an unrelated investigation when, the force alleges, they…