Toronto police have released further details of a vehicle involved in the 2016 drive-by shooting death of a 20-year-old man in the city’s east end with the hope that the new information will help lead to an arrest in the case.
“We’re hoping that it will jog the memory of someone that’s been in contact with the vehicle just prior to the murder or after, or occupants of the vehicle,” Det. Leslie Dunkley told reporters during a press conference Thursday morning.
Police said Abdullah Farah was fatally wounded in front of the Cloud Nine cafe on Danforth Avenue in the early morning hours of April 17, 2016.
Investigators said surveillance video released from the scene indicates he was with two other men when shots rang out from a four-door sedan, which has now been identified as a 2007 white Pontiac G5.
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Officers responded and located Farah without vital signs. He was taken to hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Last year, police released images of the vehicle that passed the area in front of the cafe three times prior to the shooting.
Dunkley said police have since located the weapon they believe was involved in the shooting.
Police said Farah, who had no criminal record or known gang affiliation, was the intended target.
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He was the third person to die at that same location in the last few years.
On May 19, 2015, 21-year-old Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf was fatally shot there. At the time, Cloud Nine was called Rotana Cafe.
Two years earlier, in September 2013, an off-duty Markham firefighter Dominic Parker was fatally stabbed inside Rotana in an unprovoked attack.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Toronto Police Homicide Squad at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
VIDEO WARNING: Disturbing Content Viewer Discretion Advised: An eyewitness video shows the chaotic aftermath of a drive-by shooting outside a Danforth Avenue cafe that left one man dead.