A young man has been shot to death in Etobicoke and police are worried others might be in danger as well.
Police found 20-year-old Jamie Hilton lifeless in the hallway of a Dundas Street West apartment building next to the elevators. He was suffering from several gunshot wounds.
An ambulance rushed him to the trauma centre at St. Michael's hospital but he was soon pronounced dead.
Police rushed to the Dundas and Islington Avenue area building Saturday night around 8:50 p.m. after getting a 911 call about sounds of gunshots at the scene.
A short while after police found Hilton, a second man walked into a nearby hospital with non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Police say he is not a suspect but a victim and eyewitness.
Through their investigation, police say they've found the apartment where the shooting occurred but the tenants of the apartment -- a man and woman in their 40s -- were not inside when they went in.
The tenants are "absolutely not" suspects in the murder, said Det. Sgt. Steve Ryan of Toronto police homicide squad, though detectives do believe they were inside the apartment at the time of the shooting.
Police say they are concerned about the well-being of the tenants and are asking for anyone who might know of their whereabouts to call police.
"We believe the couple are key to our investigation," Ryan said speaking to reporters. "Our first priority is to see that they are safe. The next is to see what they saw."
The apartment building is well-known to police as it is frequented by drug dealers. However, homicide detectives are not saying if this incident was drug related.
In the meantime, the victim's grief-stricken family told CTV News Hilton had never been in trouble with police before. He might have just been at the wrong place at the wrong time.
"He's a good kid, I don't know what happened," said Hilton's mother, Jullette Douglas, speaking to CTV News.
Hilton's girlfriend was with his family Sunday as they gathered to comfort one another. They appealed to the killer to surrender to police.
"Whoever did this, they know what they did and we just say to them, turn yourself into the police," said Hilton's uncle, Denzel Reid.
This is Toronto's 71st homicide of the year.
With a report from CTV's Jim Junkin
