Police identify victims in double homicide near Jane and Finch
Posted October 1, 2019 9:51 pm.
Last Updated October 2, 2019 9:36 pm.
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Toronto police have identified the victims of a double homicide in the Jane and Finch area on Tuesday night.
Delauntae Bryant, 24, and Eric Rowe, 20, both died after they were shot in the courtyard of a housing complex on Grandravine Drive.
Police say a teenage boy was also shot by the same suspects in a earlier incident, but escaped with non life-threatening injuries.
Investigators were first called to the Venetian Crescent area just south of the Jane and Finch Mall at around 8:20 p.m. for reports of shots fired. In that incident the teenage boy was shot.
Just after 9 p.m. police say the same men began firing shots at home in the area of 2010 Sheppard Avenue West. No one was injured in that incident.
About half an hour later, police say the same men shot at Bryant and Rowe. Both died at hospital.
No suspect descriptions have been released.
WATCH: Man describes moment bullets came through window, narrowly missing him
Three of the bullets went through the kitchen window of a home in the townhouse complex, narrowly missing a man who was cooking at his stove.
“I was just getting something prepared in the kitchen and then all of a sudden I heard this popping sound and I heard the window breaking … immediately I knew this was gunshots,” the man, who only wanted to identified as Marlon, explained.
He said as he was running for cover behind a sofa he heard several more gunshots.
“After that I heard three more pops and two more shots came into the house.”
Marlon, who has lived in the area with his family for almost four years, said his wife and young child were upstairs at the time.
He yelled at them to stay put until everything calmed down.
Thankfully no one was injured but the family said they are very shaken up by what happened.
