Overview
- Police responded to reports of gunfire at an apartment building near Jarvis Street and Dundas Street East and found a woman with a gunshot wound inside a unit at 251 Jarvis St.; she was given life-saving care and taken to hospital where she later died.
- Toronto’s Homicide and Missing Persons Unit has taken over the investigation and officers arrested a man in connection with the incident but have not laid any charges.
- Investigators are working to establish the full circumstances of the shooting and whether the arrested man and the victim knew each other while police notify the woman’s next of kin.
- Authorities say they have been gathering evidence from the apartment and speaking with potential witnesses as part of the active probe.
- Police are urging anyone with information or video footage to contact the Toronto Police Service or Crime Stoppers to assist the ongoing investigation.