‘Contact us. Do the right thing’: Police seek witnesses in fatal North York apartment shooting

Toronto Police Service (TPS) investigators identified a 26-year-old man as the homicide victim from last week’s shooting at a low-rise apartment building in North York.

Officers were called to a low-rise apartment building at 85 Clearview Heights in the Trethewey Drive and Black Creek Drive area just after 8 p.m. on Oct. 7 for reports of shots fired.

A victim in his 20s was located at the scene with gunshot wounds and was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he was pronounced dead.

On Tuesday, police identified the victim as 26-year-old Marvin Baah Boadu of Toronto.

Detective Sergeant Tiffany Castell of the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit led a press conference at 11 a.m., saying investigators have confirmed that Baah was shot in the stairwell.

“We have been investigating since Monday, Oct. 7, and there are very few witnesses who have come forward,” she told reporters at the scene on Tuesday.

Residents told 680News Radio they heard two or three gunshots and then saw the victim run out of the building and collapse on the ground in the rear parking lot. Good Samaritans performed CPR on the victim before paramedics arrived at the scene.

Castell said it’s unclear if the shooting was targeted, but authorities have indicated there could have been several witnesses at the time Baar was fatally gunned down, leaving investigators hopeful that someone will come forward with valuable information.

“What I know for certain based on the minimal video… is that there were many people in that parking lot. There are many people in our city who are aware of what happened to Mr. Baah,” Castell said.

It was the 72nd homicide in the city of 2024.