Updated: August 23, 2025 at 5:02PM EDT
Published: August 23, 2025 at 4:59PM EDT
The death of a man at Scarborough Town Centre earlier this week has been a homicide, Toronto police say.
In a news release on Saturday, police identified the victim as 19-year-old Daniel Amalathas.
He was located unconscious in the washroom near the lower-level food court on Thursday afternoon. The 19-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
Scarborough Town Centre shooting Emergency services are in the entrance of a washroom at Scarborough Town Centre responding to a shooting on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.
He is the city’s 27th homicide victim of 2025.
The cause of death has not been released, but police previously said he had been shot. When officers found Amalathas, a firearm was discovered near him, police said.
“There was no sound of gunshots or active shooting. This happened in a very confined space that no one knew,” Acting Insp. Baheer Sarvanandan told reporters on Thursday, noting that it appears a single shot was fired.
No suspect information has been released.
Homicide investigators are asking anyone with information to contact them at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).