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A 19-year-old man wanted in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old man in a Toronto plaza parking lot earlier this month has surrendered to police.
Police said officers responded to a call of a shooting at 1:41 p.m. on Oct. 3 on 7 Bonis Avenue near Birchmount road just north of Sheppard Avenue East.
The shooting victim, identified as Elliott Reid-Doyle of Toronto, was transported to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition but later died.
Det. Leslie Dunkley said last Friday at a news conference that the suspect had entered an establishment in the plaza and was leaving when he had a brief interaction with the victim.
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“It was a verbal interaction between them, resulting in the suspect brandishing a firearm, firing shots,” Dunkley said.
“From our investigation, I can tell you we don’t believe that they knew each other prior to the incident and the shooting was a result of that interaction that they had with each other.”
Toronto police had released security footage of the suspect on Friday and he was identified on Sunday as Amal Jones.
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The accused, who surrendered to police without incident on Sunday, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
The shooting marked Toronto’s 83rd homicide of 2018.
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