Man, 21, charged with murder in shooting death of man outside North York apartment

A 21-year-old man is under arrest in connection to two shootings in Toronto, one of them fatal.

Toronto police say Brandon Turner is facing a first-degree murder charge after 23-year-old Marsell Bryan was shot and killed in the Cherokee Boulevard area near Finch Avenue East and Victoria Park Avenue at around 3 a.m. on June 27.

Homicide Det. Sajeev Nair said in an update on Thursday that more than 20 shots were fired in what they believe was a targeted shooting.

Nair added that Turner is also responsible for a separate shooting that took place at 134 Jamestown Crescent on August 25 that injured a 24-year-old man.

According to Nair Turner was one of four suspects identified in the Jamestown incident and a search of four residences and one vehicle turned up two firearms – a loaded Glock 9mm handgun with an overcapacity magazine and a Romanian Variant AK-47 with a high-capacity magazine that police allege was used in the shooting.

Nair says Turner, who is known to police, is facing more than a dozen additional firearm charges in connection to the August 25 shooting.

Nair says tests are being carried out to determine if any of the weapons recovered were also used in the Bryan shooting.

Police would not get into a possible motive for the Bryan shooting but did say that at this point “these incidents are not random.”

Nair says the search continues for a second suspect in the Bryan shooting.