A 19-year-old man, identified as Daniel Amalathas of Toronto, was found injured in a mall washroom shortly before 2 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene. A firearm was located nearby. Police have classified the death as a homicide, making him the city's 27th homicide victim this year. Officers initially treated the death as suspicious and later expanded a taped-off area in the food court before closing it. Authorities said it was not an active shooter situation and suggested only one shot may have been fired in a confined space where gunfire might not have been heard. A city councillor expressed sadness and urged residents to report information on violent actors.
A 19-year-old man found dead in the Scarborough Town Centre on Thursday was the victim of a homicide, Toronto police say. In a news release Saturday, police identified the man as Daniel Amalathas, 19, of Toronto. Amalathas was found injured in a washroom of the mall just before 2 p.m. Thursday after police responded to a call about someone being shot, the news release says. At the time, police had said a firearm was located nearby. Toronto paramedics pronounced Amalathas dead on the scene.
He is the city's 27th homicide victim of the year. Initially, police said his death was suspicious but that homicide detectives hadn't taken it over yet. But in Saturday's release, police said his death has become a homicide investigation. Police had taped off a small area of the food court after they arrived at the mall on Thursday, but expanded it later and then closed the food court. Police had told reporters that it was not an active shooter situation and as a result they did not lock down the mall.
On Thursday, police said there were no reports of gunshots. Toronto police acting inspector Baheer Sarvanandan told reporters that only one shot may have been fired and that might explain why no one reported hearing any gunfire. "It doesn't appear to be multiple shots, potentially a single shot," he had said. "This happened in a very confined space that no one knew," Sarvanandan had added. "It's a very busy mall and in that type of environment it's hard to hear."
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