Terrence Agtual of Toronto was just weeks out of prison

Two months before Terrence Agtual was statutorily released from prison this fall for a violent crime, he was found with an eight-inch metal shank in his prison cell, according to parole board documents.

Agtual had a violent record, “entrenched criminal values,” and was still using drugs while serving his latest prison sentence, his October 2019 decision revealed.

Agtual, 28, barely had time to enjoy his freedom before he was fatally shot in the head last Saturday by a gunman who sprayed the car in which he was a passenger on Hwy.  400.

Toronto Police Homicide Det. Sgt. Brandon Price told the Sun the shooting began when the vehicle was still on the highway, and the victim’s car was “targeted,” although it isn’t clear if all three men inside were the intended prey.

Two others in the car were also wounded, but the wounded driver managed to pull his Honda Accord off the highway and into a gas station at Finch Ave. W. and Jayzel Dr.

No arrests have been made.

Agtual was serving a six-year, eight-month and 13 day sentence for pistol-whipping and robbing a marijuana drug dealer in October 2013, his latest parole board documents state.

He and an accomplice ambushed the dealer in the back of his Don Mills apartment building and stole his pot

Agtual broke the victim’s jaw in plain view of two undercover cops, who were conducting an unrelated investigation. The cops chased and tackled him.

Agtual, who was under a lifetime weapons ban at the time, tossed the gun into a treed area, the documents say.

The recent parole board decision stated Agtual’s latest offence, possessing a shank in prison, “demonstrates his ongoing tendency to hold onto violent ideologies.”

Agtual used guns during several crimes but was not a known gang member. He “gravitates toward criminal associates,” the decision states.

He was released on conditions barring him from consuming alcohol or drugs and consorting with criminals.

“You have struggled to remain crime free while under community supervision. Within  five months of completing your last sentence (three years for possessing a  restricted weapon in 2010), you committed your index offences (the 2013 robbery),” the decision states.
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