Residents at the Scarborough building home to the city’s 90th murder say it was just another in a string of hellish incidents at the Toronto Community Housing complex.
Police were called to 4175 Lawrence Ave. E., near Kingston Rd., at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday for the record-setting murder.
Cardinal Licorish, 23, of Ajax, was found shot to death in a stairwell.
Residents say the building is a violent drug den, where they live with bed bugs and homeless squatters defecate in stairwells. On Monday, building management was repairing the locks on two apartments on the eighth floor that had been kicked in over the weekend in apparent robberies.
Brenda Muscott’s door was one of them. She said it was nothing new.
According to her, the murdered man, who went by the nickname Gucci, was involved in drugs and she would let him stay with her on occasion.
“No one knew his real name,” she said. “I’m in shock, but I don’t have any emotions any more and I can’t cry.”
One resident, who didn’t want to be named for fears of being beaten up, said that crack users run the building.
“People sleep in the stairs and it stinks of urine. There are cameras in the building but nobody does anything. This is like living in the East Detention Centre,” the man said.
“People sit right in front of the building and get drunk and fight. I don’t come out of my apartment after 5 p.m. because that is when the crazy starts.”
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