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By a 5-1 vote, the council approved changing the zoning of the nearly one-acre, vacant lot from Neighborhood Commercial to C-17, which clears the way for the gas station that many nearby residents opposed during a public hearing

A man who was gunned down in what police have called an indiscriminate attack in northwest Toronto was remembered Saturday as a quiet and respectful man who was working hard to support his family in Ghana.

Dozens gathered at the Driftwood Community Centre in North York to remember the life of an innocent father killed in a random shooting.

A vigil is happening this weekend for Adu Boakye, the 40-year-old man from Ghana who was recently killed in a shooting in North York.

The weekend shootings in North York brought fresh attention to public safety concerns, which have been fanned in the past year after several unrelated instances of random violence

Police find no link between shooting victims in Toronto

TORONTO - Two people who were shot at the same intersection in a northwest Toronto neighbourhood in less than a day were innocent victims who were attacked "indiscriminately," police said Tuesday.

A 39-year-old father of four from Ghana has been identified as the man killed in one of two seemingly random shootings in northwest Toronto over the weekend.

Residents in a northwest Toronto neighbourhood said they were feeling uneasy Monday after two people were shot while waiting for buses at the same intersection less than a day apart.

Toronto police say two victims who were shot near a north Toronto bus stop last week were hit "indiscriminately" while going about their day.At a news conference Tuesday, Det. Sgt. Phillip Campbell said 39-year-old Adu Boakye was walking by a bus shelter near Jane Street and Driftwood Avenue when he was fatally shot Saturday afternoon.Boakye was "innocently going about his business," Campbell said, as was the 16-year-old boy who was shot in the same area and sent to hospital ...