Victim identified, man arrested, in city’s latest murder

Posted February 21, 2011 2:20 pm.

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Toronto Police have identified the city’s latest murder victim.

Okene Thompson, 20, died in hospital on February 16. He was shot in the Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue area around 5:30am just days before, on February 13.

Kirk Vernal, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder.

Thompson’s death marks the city’s 11th homicide of 2011.

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