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• Toronto man pleads guilty to murdering 33-year-old girlfriend with a hammer

  Bronson Lake has pleased guilty to the second-degree murder of his Kim Gagne in July 2021, at the basement apartment the couple shared near Albion and Weston roads.

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  Nov 10, 2022
  
• Father killed in 2018 Coronation Park shooting ‘executed’ over gold chain: Crown

  In the first-degree murder trial of Andrew Douglas, the Crown told the jury that there was bad blood between shooting victim Michael Lewis and rapper Smoke Dawg, Douglas' brother. 

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  Oct 17, 2022
  
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• Trial for couple accused in 2018 fatal shooting hears bullet hit wrong person

  Shamoi Palmer and Egypt Morgan sat two prisoner's boxes apart with plexiglass between them on the opening day of their first-degree murder trial.

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  Oct 7, 2022
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• Toronto man sentenced for murdering 66-year-old in apartment building elevator

  Karl Hoyes was arrested in a downtown Toronto homeless shelter about six hours after the attack.

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  Oct 3, 2022
• Woman killed in domestic murder left dead for 4 hours before her boyfriend called 911

  Le pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on June 7, 2022, two days after his trial by judge began. A preliminary hearing was held prior to the start of the trial.

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  Jun 29, 2022
• Son convicted of father’s murder given life sentence, psychiatric assessment ordered

  Justice John McMahon called the fatal stabbing of Kent Truman on April 15, 2019 'a tragic and extremely brutal killing.'

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  May 25, 2022
• Toronto man on trial for first-degree murder of father, a retired firefighter

  Kyle Truman has pleaded not guilty.

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  Apr 21, 2022
• Toronto man sentenced to 5-year prison term for April 2020 shooting of 15-year-old boy

  It was on April 26, 2020, when officers were called to a Toronto Community Housing Complex on Sheppard Avenue near Jane Street for a shooting.

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  Feb 22, 2022
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• ‘The pain never goes away’: Jordan Manners’ mother on 2nd student fatally shot inside Toronto school

  'I didn't want to see another family go through what I've gone through and it happened again.'

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  Feb 17, 2022
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• Toronto man sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating mother to death

  On Tuesday, almost three and a half years after his arrest, Matthew Maxwell was sentenced to 15 years in a penitentiary minus nine months for the fatal assault of his mother.

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  Jan 4, 2022