Victim identified in Thorncliffe Park shooting
Posted February 25, 2017 7:09 pm.
Last Updated February 27, 2017 10:11 am.
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Toronto police have identified the man who was killed in a shooting in Thorncliffe Park on Saturday evening.
Shoaib Asakzai, 25, was killed in the parking lot of a highrise apartment building on Thorncliffe Park Drive, near Overlea Boulevard, sometime before 6:30 p.m.
Asakzai was taken to hospital with life-threatening gunshot wounds and later died.
The homicide unit is investigating.
His death marks the city’s 11th murder of the year.