Some may know the name Isaiah Twyman from his rap music — others may know the name from two previous times in the past five years where the teenager has been reported missing.
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But now the 17-year-old Scarborough boy is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree murder in last Sunday’s deadly shooting of Beck Taxi driver Christopher Jung.
“He is believed to be armed, violent, and dangerous. If located, do not approach, call 911 immediately,” Toronto Police said in a statement released Friday.
While he normally can’t be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, Homicide detectives went to a judge and “obtained judicial authorization to identify a Young Person” — an authorization that expires Nov. 3 or when police take him into custody.
The crime the teen is accused of committing his horrendous.
Officers responded to a call for a taxi cab that had collided with a fence in the area of Pharmacy and Eglinton Aves. just after 8:45 p.m.
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Driving that taxi was Jung, 73, who sources say was shot in the abdomen.
A man was seen running from the taxi but police knew that inside this cab would be all the evidence they could ever want.
“There are cameras in the car,” Beck Taxi Operations Manager Kristine Hubbard told me. “Hopefully, they will show what happened. We have offered police full support and given them all the information we have about routes.”
In other words Isaiah, you only have one move. If you are out there reading this, the best play is to turn yourself in at the nearest police station or contact a lawyer to help you surrender peacefully. Not only is the that the decent way to go, it will also mean your name and picture will be out there for the public to see for a shorter period of time.
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This young person is considered innocent until proven guilty.
Police are pursing all avenues in this case to determine just what happened here.
Video evidence has been compelling in helping police solve serious crimes in taxi’s before.
In 2006, cameras in a Beck Taxi helped investigators track down the suspect in the stabbing murder of Mahmood Bhatti. Jung’s murder was initially thought to be a stabbing as well, but then police located shell casings at the scene and later reported he was shot multiple times. His death has shaken Beck Taxi, which has thousands of drivers who service the GTA.
In the meantime, the focus is trying to locate this suspect, who previous police news releases show as a younger teenager went missing from his home twice. Some of this rap songs are also available on streaming services.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of this suspect is urged to call the Homicide unit at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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