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Police investigating homicide in North York

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ABOVE: Police are investigating the city’s latest homicide after a body of a man has been found at an apartment in North York. As Erica Vella reports, residents say the building where the body was has had incidents with violence and crime in the past – Oct 29, 2017

The body of a man has been found at an apartment in North York and Toronto police say they are treating the case as a homicide.

According to police, the victim was found at a second-floor apartment located on Wakunda Place near O’Connor Drive around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

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“Our units arrived and they discovered a man within the residential high-rise building and he was suffering from severe trauma,” said Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook with Toronto police.

“The investigators did confirm that the victim was a resident of the building and he was found by another resident.”

The victim, who has been identified as 60-year-old Henryk Dabrowski of Toronto, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say a post-mortem investigation determined he died as a result of stab wounds to the torso.

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