Toronto police have identified the man fatally shot in an underground parking garage on Wednesday night.
The shooting happened on Yonge Street near Gerrard Street, at around 7:17 p.m.
Police said officers found a man with multiple gunshot wounds in an underground parking garage in the area.
In an update, police said life-saving measures were performed by emergency services on the victim. However, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the suspect fled the scene in a newer model silver SUV.
The victim has been identified as 27-year-old Parmvir Chahil of Windsor. Police said they believe that Chahil was targeted.
Global News has confirmed Chahil was previously convicted of aggravated assault in 2020 following a vicious attack on a 29-year-old man with autism in the bus terminal of Mississauga’s Square One shopping centre in March 2018.
On March 13, 2018, surveillance video released by investigators showed three men coming down the steps, surrounding the victim before punching and kicking him, and then walking away.
The victim’s father told Global News in an exclusive interview the beating captured on surveillance video and viewed approximately 685,000 times on the Peel Regional Police YouTube channel “a cowardly act.”
The three men were eventually all identified after an appeal was made for help from the public. The three were arrested after a Canada-wide warrant was issued for their arrests.
Chahil, who was one of the men involved in the attach, was sentenced to nine months in jail, a year of probation, a 10-year weapons prohibition and was ordered to submit his DNA to the DNA databank after pleading guilty to aggravated assault on Feb. 11, 2020.
Chahil was sentenced in November of 2020.
Meanwhile, no suspect description has been released for the fatal underground parking garage shooting.
Investigators said the parking garage is shared between two addresses on Yonge Street.
Anyone with information or who was parked in the parking garage at the time and has dash-camera footage is asked to contact police.