Police are investigating after a man was fatally shot and a woman was found dead in Toronto’s east end overnight.
Toronto police said they were called to the Logan Avenue and Gerrard Street East area just before midnight where officers found a man in a vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds.
Police said the man, who was identified Thursday as 24-year-old Abdiqani Abshir of Toronto, was being transported to hospital by a civilian who stopped the vehicle and called for help when the man started to have trouble breathing.
When police and paramedics arrived, the victim told emergency crews he was shot at a home on Cavell Avenue.
The victim was transferred to hospital where he later died, police said.
Crews then went to the home and found the body of a woman. Her identity has not been revealed by investigators.
Police haven’t released the nature of the woman’s injuries, but paramedics said she had not been shot.
Officers have closed part of Gerrard Street East for the investigation. The TTC tweeted the 506 Carlton streetcar was been temporarily replaced by shuttle buses.