An autopsy will be performed Monday on a 25-year-old man who was shot and killed near Trinity Bellwoods Park
on the weekend.
Jefflin Beals died shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday
near Queen and Crawford streets, east of Ossington Avenue, where a number of
Nuit Blanche events were taking place.
He is the city's 36th homicide, police say.
Police received several 911 calls after
neighbours heard gunshots, but when officers arrived on the scene they found a
car with bullet holes and no victim.
After a search nearby, they found
Beals lying unconscious between two houses with two gunshot wounds to the chest.
Paramedics took him to St. Michael’s Hospital on an emergency run.
Beals
was pronounced dead soon after.
“I heard cops running up my driveway,"
said a resident named Bibi. "I flipped the lights on and opened the door, and
they said, ‘Get back in. Somebody just died right next to your
house.’”
Now, police say they need the public's help.
“We do know
that there were people in the park area that night, during the early morning
hours and on the street,” said Det. Sgt. Wayne Banks of the homicide
squad.
Police also released a YouTube video, appealing for information.
Police have spoken with the victim’s family. Beals is from
Darthmouth, Nova Scotia. There are no details about possible suspects.