Toronto police’s homicide squad have now taken over an investigation in which it’s alleged a Jeep struck a man dead in the city’s west end area.
Officers responding to a fail to remain call near Black Creek Drive and Weston Road, say the suspect vehicle was travelling west in an eastbound lane just before 5:00 a.m. early Wednesday morning when it plowed through two people involved in an altercation on that road.
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The Jeep Grand Cherokee then steered into the westbound lane of Eglinton Avenue West and drove off. Police eventually tracked down both the vehicle and driver.
Thirty-seven-year-old Dario Humberto Romero of Toronto was pronounced dead on scene, while an unidentified 59-year-old woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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The driver of the vehicle, 31-year-old Anthony James Kiss of Wasaga Beach, appeared in a Finch Avenue court on Thursday facing four charges including manslaughter, impaired operation, over 80 milligrams in operation of a motor vehicle causing death, and failure to stop at scene of accident causing death.
Anyone with information is asked to call homicide at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
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