Toronto stabbing victim identified as international student: police

Police are investigating after a stabbing in Toronto left an international student dead.

Toronto police said on June 25, at around 7:10 p.m., officers received a report of a stabbing in the Eglinton Avenue East and Brimley Road area.

Police said there was an altercation involving two men in a parking lot.

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Officers said a man was located with “signs of trauma.”

Police said the man was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Officers have now identified the victim as 28-year-old Ifeanyichukwu Oseke, a student from Nigeria.

Police are searching for a man with medium length, dark hair. He was seen wearing a light-coloured tank to, pants and shoes.

According to police, he was seen getting into a dark coloured sedan which headed south on Brimley Road from Eglinton Avenue East.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers.