Today’s modern-day “highwaymen” are more dangerous than they were in 1617 when the term was first used. Back in the day, highwaymen robbed travellers on horse and buggy. Today’s version just blast away and strike anybody travelling in modern vehicles.
It’s as gutless now as it was back then.
The latest victim of a sneak attack is 28-year-old Toronto man Terrence Agtual, who was struck in the head at 7 p.m. Saturday by a gunman travelling in a vehicle that sprayed the car he was in with numerous bullets.
“The shooting started when they were on Highway 400,” Det.-Sgt. Brandon Price, of Toronto Police’s Homicide Squad, explained Sunday night.
He believes the victims’ car was “targeted” but said it’s not clear the three men inside were.
Sometimes these ambush shooters get the wrong vehicle. Time will tell if this was the case in this instance.
Either way, Agtual will go down as Toronto’s 66th homicide of 2019. The two men travelling with him were also wounded. The driver was able to steer the grey Honda Accord off the highway and to a gas station at Finch Ave. and Jayzel Dr. to get help.
At publication, the suspect or suspects and their vehicle are unknown, other than it is believed they originated on Steeles Ave. Police have had some assistance from the public who were witness to the end result of this triple shooting, but are hopeful for more evidence.
“That is why we are making an appeal,” said Price. “We are hopeful somebody may see this and provide more information.”
Dashcam videos are helpful or eye-witness accounts. People can contact the Homicide Squad directly or go through Crime Stoppers. Police would like to solve this murder quickly.
Agtual and his friends are “not believed” to have been involved in any criminality at the time of the shooting, Price said, adding they have no information any return fire came from the Honda.
That said, he noted Agtual was well known to police. Police sources say he had been involved with a string of criminal charges for everything from drug counts to assault with a weapon, gun offences and armed robbery going back to 2010 when he was just 18 and again in 2013.
Now he is dead.
But it is how he was murdered that raises the issue of just how dangerous it can be on Toronto’s major highways and roadways.
Like the Highwaymen did back in the day, the predators lay in wait for their prey to come along before making their sudden move.
On Highway 410 alone there have been four similar shootings to this one, including one that killed innocent Jason Ramkishun, a 23-year-old who was on his way home from his security guard shift. He, ironically, was working towards his police foundations diploma with a dream to becoming an officer to help stop such criminals.
A week after his cowardly slaying, another man was shot and wounded in a car similar to the one he had been driving — and eerily the same model Agtual was in.
People being shot in cars from cars has become too common. The GTA’s 400-series highways and many roads and streets have had such incidents in recent years.
There is nothing honourable about today’s gangster Highwaymen who have killed once again.
They are just shameful murderers and criminals.
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