Overview
- The victim was identified as Shivank Avasthi, 20, found with a gunshot wound near Highland Creek Trail and Old Kingston Road on December 23 around 3:34 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene.
- Police say the suspect or suspects fled before officers arrived, and a homicide investigation is underway with an appeal for information from the public.
- The University of Toronto Scarborough area was briefly locked down as officers searched the scene.
- Toronto Police recorded the killing as the city’s 41st homicide of 2025.
- In a separate case, police issued a Canada-wide warrant for Abdul Ghafoori in the killing of Indian-origin woman Himanshi Khurana, which investigators say appears to involve intimate-partner violence.