Police have identified a 28-year-old man who was fatally shot while in a vehicle outside a North York apartment building early Tuesday morning as Lawrence Errol Joel John.
John is a national of Antigua and Barbuda.
Emergency crews were called to San Romanoway, in the Finch Avenue West and Jane Street area, shortly before 6:30 a.m. for reports that multiple gunshots had been heard, Toronto police Const. David Hopkinson said.
Investigators determined that John and a female passenger were in a dark-coloured SUV outside the building when they were approached by a group of people who fired at them, according to a news release.
John was shot several times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hopkinson said a number of suspects fled the area, according to witnesses, though he did not have descriptions for them.
Pictures from the scene showed a Mazda SUV sitting in a driveway outside an apartment building with the front driver’s-side window apparently shot out, with shattered glass all over the ground.