{"id":705107,"date":"2026-05-31T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:09:14","slug":"toronto-police-seek-suspects-after-27-year-old-fatally-shot-steps-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705107\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police seek suspects after 27-year-old fatally shot \u2018steps from home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A 27-year-old Toronto man is dead after a shooting in North York late Friday night, which police are saying is not believed to be targeted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto police say they were called to the area of Sheppard Avenue West and Magellan Drive at about 10:15 p.m. for reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and began life-saving measures before he was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim, identified as Hussein Elmi, 27, of Toronto, later died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference Saturday, homicide investigators said it remains early in the investigation and have not ruled out any possible motives.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe this was a targeted incident,\u201d Sgt. Jason Davis said, adding it is too early to determine whether the shooting was gang-related.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said a dark-coloured vehicle pulled up before the shooting and the suspects were on foot when the incident occurred, with the victim just steps from his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gentleman was tragically almost home. I have no indication that he had any interaction with the suspects at this time,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with dashcam footage, surveillance video or other information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 27-year-old man tragically lost his life last night and every little bit of information matters,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>The family of the victim has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Davis said investigators are also aware of reports of gunshots in the area earlier this week and are looking into whether there is any connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur role right now is to find those responsible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers remain highly visible in the area as the investigation continues and are asking anyone with dashcam footage, photos or videos to contact authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 27-year-old Toronto man is dead after a shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,2169,44,3302,80129,80130],"class_list":["post-705107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-crime","tag-toronto-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705107","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=705107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}