Police are searching for two suspects after a man was shot to death in the Junction area Tuesday night.
Officers were called to the scene at Gilmour Avenue, just north of Dundas, around 10pm and found 29-year-old Kenneth Mark on the ground. A TTC bus driver reportedly called in the crime.
Mark was apparently leaving a pizza store en route to work at an area Wal-Mart when he was shot in the head.
"He was inside the pizza store, and he came out and was walking northbound and the suspects ran up behind him and shot him in the head. He had a walkman on, he probably didn't hear them coming or see them coming," reveals Detective Hank Idsinga.
Mark was rushed to hospital where he died.
Investigators are now trying to track down two suspects, one of them armed, who are described as black, about 20 years old, who were wearing dark clothes at the time of the crime.
Family and friends describe Mark as a gentle giant, whose nickname was the 'big teddy bear'. He often looked out for kids in the neighbourhood and according to family had no criminal history.
"Ken was not involved in any criminal activity whatsoever," said his grieving brother Sean Mark. "He had never been, it's just ridiculous what happened. There's no way I can explain it, I can't, there's no words, I can't."
Police haven't revealed a motive, but sources have told CityNews that he may have been targetted after preventing several young men from bringing a gun into the St. Clair Avenue apartment complex he lived at.
Mark worked the night shift at Walmart for the past five years, and employees there are understandably shaken.
He is the city's 62nd homicide victim of the year.
If you have any information that could help investigators, call the Homicide Squad at (416) 808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at (416) 222-TIPS.