Police said they received reports just after 2 a.m. about a fire in the laundry room of a building on Balliol Street, south of Davisville Avenue.
Fire crews put out the fire and a man’s body was found in the laundry room, Toronto police said. He had obvious signs of trauma, but police didn’t reveal a cause of death.
By late afternoon on Thursday, police identified the victim as 52-year-old Peter Elie of Toronto.
Homicide investigators are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a “person of interest” and have released his photo. He was last seen wearing a dark jacket with red-and-black checkered pajamas. If they see him seen, the public should call 911.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
Elie is the Toronto’s 26th homicide victim of 2020.
Including him, 21 men and five women have been killed in Toronto so far this year. They are:
Ahmed Yakot, 21, was shot near River and Oak streets in Regent Park at 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 1. He died the next day in hospital.
Paul Anthony DeSouza, 25, was shot in a residence at 367 Military Trail in Scarborough around 2 a.m. on Jan. 11 and pronounced dead at hospital.
Maryna Kudzianiuk, 49, was found seriously injured in an apartment building at 25 Bay Mills Boulevard, near Sheppard Avenue East and Warden Avenue, after a fire at 3 a.m. on Jan. 13. She was pronounced dead at hospital. On Jan. 18, police charged 37-year-old Ricardo Mirabelles of Toronto with first-degree murder. He was shot dead by police near Scarborough Town Centre on that day.
Safiullah Khosrawi, a 15-year-old Woburn C.I. student, was shot at Markham and Ellesmere Roads on Jan. 20. He died in hospital. Police said he “was completely innocent.” Another 15-year-old Woburn student has been charged with second-degree murder.
Giulia Matthews, 54, was found dead inside a home in the St. Clair Avenue West and Atlas Avenue area on Jan. 20. Police found Matthews after they were called to conduct a wellness check. A boy has been charged with second degree murder. His identity cannot be released under the Youth and Criminal Justice Act.
Stephon Kelly, 28, was shot near Markham and Kingston roads at around 9 p.m. on Jan. 25. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s were also shot, and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Jalen Colley, 21, of Brampton, and Tyronne Noseworthy, 19, of Toronto, and Joshua Gibson-Skeir, 20, of Brampton were shot in an Airbnb at 85 Queens Wharf Road, just south of Fort York Boulevard, at around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 31. Police say the shooting took place within a condo unit, and the adjacent hallway on the 32nd floor. Police say evidence suggests this was a murder-suicide. They have not clarified who the two homicide victims were.
Thomas Michael Alcott, 29, was found unconscious and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the area of Danforth Avenue and Greenwood Avenue at around 3 a.m. on Feb. 5. he was pronounced dead in hospital.
Deandre Campbell-Kelly, 29, was found suffering from gun shot wounds after a shooting in front of 546 The West Mall, near Rathburn Road and The East Mall on Feb. 7. He was pronounced dead in hospital. Police arrested Alyshia Smith, 19, and Anthony Johnson, 23, both of Toronto, on Feb. 10 and charged each with first-degree murder.
Hang-Kam (Annie) Chiu, 64, was pronounced dead after a man attacked her with a hammer in the area of Sheppard Avenue East near Markham Road on Feb. 21. Saad Akhtar, 30, turned himself in on the same day and charged with first-degree murder. The charge was later upgraded to murder — terrorist activity.
Ashley Noell Arzaga, 24, of Toronto, was pronounced dead after a stabbing at a massage parlour on Dufferin Street, south of Wilson Avenue, on Feb. 24. Two others were found with stab wounds outside. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with first degree murder and and attempted murder. She’s remembered as a “loving mother, daughter, sister, cousin and friend” whose smile and laugh was “contagious to everyone around” her.
Theepa Seevaratnam, 38, of Toronto was shot to death on March 14. The victim and another woman were found suffering from gunshot wounds in the area of Brimley Road and Pitfield Road. Steadley Kerr, 28, was arrested March 30 faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
Birchfield Matthews, 43, died in hospital after he was stabbing in an apartment March 15, in the area of Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue West. Kenroy Samuel, 29, of Toronto, was arrested near the scene and charged with second degree murder.
Dobroslav “Bobby” Manchev, 51, shot and killed in front of 51 Comstock Rd., near Eglinton Town Centre in the evening of March 18. He was a former organized crime figure who was convicted in 2001 of impersonating a police officer in drug ripoffs. Joseph Paquet, 48, of Toronto was arrested March 29 and charged with first-degree murder.
Mamadou Drame, 25, of Toronto, died in hospital after he was shot near Ryerson campus in the evening of March 21. Police say there was an altercation between the victim and a suspect they’re looking for.
The body of Ayoub Mohamed, 25, of Toronto, was found found along the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Burlington on March 24. He had been reported missing by his family on March 13. He was last seen at 8 p.m. on March 11, in the Eglinton Avenue West and Weston Road area.
Kamalakannan Arasaratnam, 58, of Toronto, was beaten to death shortly after 3 p.m. on April 5 after an argument at a restaurant near Finch Avenue East and Bridletowne Circle, west of Warden Avenue.
Nazirullah Abdul-Rashid, 16, of Toronto, was shot and killed inside a car at 5 Leaside Ave., near Millwood Road and Overlea Boulevard on April 5 at about 10:40 p.m.
Farook Alibhai, 65, of Toronto, was assaulted at a residential building near Progress Road and Markham Avenue on March 29. He died April 5 from a head injury. Nathaniel Ottley, 36, of Toronto has been charged with manslaughter.
Lindsay John Templeton, 37, of Toronto, was shot and killed on April 8 at St. Clair Avenue West and Winona Rd. He was found at the back of the building with “multiple gun shots wounds.”
Paul Morgan, 79, of Toronto, was found inside his home at 42 Howard Ave. on April 14 with “obvious signs of trauma.” He used his earnings as a top Toronto oral surgeon to support the less fortunate, says a friend. He opened up his North York home to a diverse group of youths, many of them Indigenous artists and musicians, including some who had been in trouble with the law. Makoons Meawasige-Moore faces a charge of second-degree murder.
Djuro Orlovic, 72, of Toronto, was pronounced dead on scene at 340 Royal York Rd., near the Gardiner Expressway, around 6:20 p.m. on April 21. He had obvious signs of trauma. Janusz Rusin, 73, of Toronto, was charged with second degree murder. The incident occurred at the Edwards Manor for adults living with the effects of a brain injury.
Jeremiah Ranger, 15, was shot and killed on April 26 after he and another boy got into the back seat of a white SUV in North York. Police released video of the pair scrambling out of the vehicle after the shooting. Police said Jeremiah died about 20 metres from the vehicle. Three people have been charged with second-degree murder. Tyler Young, 22, of Cambridge, was arrested with the assistance of Waterloo Region police on May 1. Hannah Gaudet, 20, surrendered along with her boyfriend, 23-year-old Seymour Young — Tyler Young’s older brother on May 4.
Daniel Boima, 23, of Toronto, was shot and killed on May 2 at about 10:45 p.m., in the Lawrence Avenue East and Warden Avenue area. Police found Boima with a gunshot wound in front of a house and rushed to hospital where he died.
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