A male is dead following a shooting near Lawrence Ave. and Kingston Rd. on Sunday afternoon. The shooting is Toronto’s 90th homicide of 2018, breaking a record set in 1991.Emergency services responded to reports of gunshots around 1:30 p.m. Responding officers found shell casings inside an apartment building in Scarborough’s West Hill neighbourhood. Paramedics say they located a man without vital signs suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.At about 3 p.m. members of the Toronto Police Service Emergency Task Force drove up to the 13-storey building with sirens flashing. They entered the building with guns drawn but walked in at a leisurely pace. Additional officers could be seen on the landings of several floors inside.At about 3:30 p.m. officers led out a man in handcuffs and put him in the back of a police cruiser before driving off. He was wearing black pants and a black T-shirt and appeared to be in his 20s or 30s.Residents of the apartments said there has been violence at the building before, including a serious stabbing a few months ago.“I’ve got to get out of here,” said Paulette Walcott, who has lived at the building for eight-and-a-half years.“I’m not safe inside here,” she said, adding the situation was going “from bad to worse.”Sam Perseud, 65, spent the weekend at his brother’s house, and was shaken when he returned to his apartment to see police outside the building. A neighbour told him someone had been shot.“I said, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to get out of here now,” he said. In 14 years living at the building he said there have been many robberies and assaults.“Anything could happen to me,” he said.Toronto police Const. David Hopkinson confirmed the Homicide Unit has taken carriage of the investigation.In a statement, Mayor John Tory said the city’s “homicide total is not something anyone, including ...
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