Toronto police have charged three men in connection to the death of a 26-year-old man killed in broad daylight at a west-end housing complex.

Det.-Sgt. Pauline Gray said Christopher Kotsopoulous was at his former home in Swansea Mews – a Toronto Community Housing complex, near Windermere Avenue and The Queensway – on Monday visiting a friend when an altercation broke out between him and five men on the complex's grounds.

Gray said several shots were fired within minutes of the fight starting, with at least one bullet hitting Kotsopoulous in the torso. He was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police said several children were playing nearby at the time of the incident and that it was a "miracle" no one else was killed.

Christopher Shaw, 21, Jeffrey Truong, 25, and Eli Goldman, 23 – who police say are all from the same west-end housing complex – are each charged with second-degree murder.

Shaw was arrested early Friday morning after police raided homes in the complex. Three guns were also seized during the raids, but police have not said if they included the gun used in the shooting.

Truong and Goldman were later arrested without incident after investigators had released their names to the public.

Monday's slaying left many residents in the housing complex in shock, many of them coming forward to share with police whatever information they had.

"I think they're tired of this," Gray said at a news conference. "I think they're tired of these young men with incredible entitlement and with guns, several guns, holding them essentially hostage."

Elena Akulova, who lives in the complex with her two children and is Goldman’s neighbour, said she was surprised by his arrest.

"(He's a) very nice man, always smiling to kids," Akulova told CTV Toronto, adding that she's now hesitant to let her children play outside.

"I try to keep them home now. It's better."

Police are still seeking two suspects who have yet to be identified.

Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide squad or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

With a report from CTV Toronto’s Tamara Cherry