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Police are looking for two teenagers wanted on Canada-wide warrants in connection with fatal, “brazen daylight” shootings that took place in Vaughan and Etobicoke earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Richmond Hill resident Sergio Lopes, 65, was killed on Jan. 26 in a Vaughan commercial plaza, while Brampton resident Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar, 37, was killed less than two weeks later at the Woodbine shopping centre.<\/p>\n
Now, police say Isaiah Thomas Badger, 19, is wanted for first-degree murder in connection with both shootings, while Jacob Wallace, 19, is wanted for first-degree murder in connection with Lopes’s death in Vaughan.<\/p>\n
The men are considered armed and dangerous, York Region police say.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s shocking to me that we\u2019re standing here with two 19-year-olds wanted for first-degree murder,\u201d said York police Det. Jonathan Nauman during a joint news conference with Toronto police on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Shootings were targeted, police say<\/p>\n
Lopes was shot multiple times on Jan. 26 as he was exiting his business in a commercial plaza in Vaughan around 1:08 p.m., Nauman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Lopez was a respected member of his community, a loving father and husband,\u201d he said. \u201cHis loss was deeply felt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nandakumar died after being shot while seated in his car in the parking lot of Woodbine Shopping Centre on Feb. 7 around 3:26 p.m., Toronto police Det. Sandra Arruda said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who knew him described him as kind, generous, and always willing to help others,\u201d\u00a0he said. \u201cHe maintained strong connections with others in the GTA.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police believe the shootings were targeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a motive, our connection to both homicides seems to only be that we share the same suspect,\u201d said Arruda, noting that in both shootings stolen vehicles were used.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is being asked to contact Toronto police or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-512907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brampton","8":"tag-brampton","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}