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Police identify fatal shooting victim as 61-year-old Toronto woman

Click to play video: 'Woman in her 60s shot and killed in Toronto’s east end'
Woman in her 60s shot and killed in Toronto’s east end
WATCH ABOVE: Toronto Police Service Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga provides an update Saturday evening after Peggy Ann Smith was shot and killed near Broadview Avenue and Dundas Street East – Aug 27, 2016

Toronto police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting in Riverdale Saturday evening.

Officers were called to the area of Don Mount Court and Kintyre Avenue, south-west of Broadview Avenue and Dundas Street East, just before 6:15 p.m. Saturday with reports of the sound of gunshots.

Toronto police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting on Saturday evening as 61-year-old Peggy Ann Smith. Toronto Police Service handout

Police arrived and found 61-year-old Peggy Ann Smith in the alley behind a townhouse on Munro Street. Smith died at the scene.

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Investigators are looking to identify two men who were seen leaving the area heading north toward Dundas Street East.

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An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday.

Anyone with information is being asked to call the homicide squad at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.

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