Toronto police have confirmed remains found at a park in the city’s northwest belong to 2013 homicide victim Rigat Ghirmay.
Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux told Global News Thursday a forensic pathologist and a forensic anthropologist determined the skull and bones found in a garbage bag by a man walking in the park on Wednesday afternoon near Weston Rd. and St. Clair Ave. are those of Rigat Ghirmay.
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Police said further forensic testing on the remains will be conducted.
“The remains are going to continue to be examined and the doctors have indicated to me that the cause of death, if one is even going to be able to be determined, is pending,” Giroux said.
Giroux added officers will be returning to the park area on Friday to conduct a ground search.
“It’s an evidence-based search that I’m doing only because of the fact that human remains were found in that park and just in the interest of completeness, the uniform officers will search that park,” Giroux said.
Ghirmay, 28, died in May 2013.
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Giroux said Zekarias and Ghirmay were involved in a relationship around the time she died.
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He is currently serving a life sentence after being convicted of the first-degree murder of Mighisti Semret in 2015.
Semret, a 55-year-old hotel cleaner, was murdered in October 2012. She was stabbed multiple times in an alley off of Bleeker St. while walking to her Cabbagetown home.