Toronto police have solved a cold case from 1991 through DNA testing, positively identifying the man responsible for killing 43-year-old Herbert Boone.
Police announced on Friday that former Toronto resident Kevin Walsh, who was 46 at the time of the killing, was the person who killed Boone.
Walsh died in 2007, police said.
On April 16, 1991 at around 3:04 a.m., officers responded to a 911 call for an unknown trouble at 149 Dundas Street East, which is just east of the Yonge-Dundas area.
Boone was found suffering from multiple stab wounds inside of an apartment and died at the scene.
“The Toronto Police Homicide Cold Case Unit has positively identified the person responsible for the murder through further DNA testing of evidence,” police said Friday.
If Walsh were alive today, he would have been charged with second-degree murder.
Global News reached out to Toronto police for further information on the murder, including what type of DNA testing led them to solve the case and what the relationship was, if any, between Boone and Walsh.