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A Toronto man has been charged with second-degree murder after a man was found dead on a Scarborough street earlier this week, police say.<\/p>\n
The suspect, 28, is accused of killing Levon Byers, 32, on Monday afternoon, Toronto police said in a news release on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Byers, from Toronto, was found with a single gunshot wound on Terraview Boulevard near Victoria Park Avenue, south of Highway 401. Police had responded to a call about unknown trouble there at about 3:15 p.m. <\/p>\n
Police said Byers was pronounced dead at the scene and is the city’s 17th homicide victim of the year.<\/p>\n
Accused got out of vehicle minutes after man found dead<\/p>\n
A short time later, at about 3:20 p.m., police responded to a shooting call at a second scene at Victoria Park Avenue and Sheppard Avenue E., north of Highway 401.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect exited a vehicle in the area and was found with gunshot wounds. He taken to hospital, where he remains with serious injuries. A gun was found in the vehicle, police added.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, police said the men were found in two different locations but it is not known exactly where they were shot.<\/p>\n
The suspect has been charged with: possessing a firearm without holding a licence; possessing a restricted firearm knowingly not holding a licence; occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm; and possessing a loaded regulated firearm. <\/p>\n
The suspect is due to appear in a Toronto courtroom on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the case is being asked to contact police. <\/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":789693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-789692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789692","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=789692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}