Overview
- Police say the victim arrived at a hospital just before 5:30 a.m. with gunshot wounds and was later pronounced dead.
- Toronto’s homicide unit has taken carriage of the case and is leading the investigation.
- Authorities are asking anyone with information or footage from the area to contact investigators.
- Initial reports described a downtown response near King Street and Spadina Avenue around 4:47 a.m., a detail later tempered as officials clarified the evolving information.
- Police also reported a separate early-morning shooting that left another man in serious but non-life-threatening condition, with no indication the two incidents are linked.