2nd person dies in hospital following Etobicoke mass shooting

A second person has died in hospital following a mass shooting in Etobicoke on Sunday night, police say.

Police say an autopsy will have to be performed to determine cause of death.

“We can’t confirm that it’s a homicide and related to the shooting until that is complete,” Const. Ashley Visser, spokeperson for the police, said in an email on Wednesday.

Five people were shot in a parking lot at the North Albion Collegiate Institute, near the corner of Mount Olive Drive and Kipling Avenue.

One of the five died in hospital that night. Police have identified that man as Delroy “George” Parkes, 61. Police said the four other injured people had either life-altering or non-life-threatening injuries.

Visser said police will not release the identity of the second person who died unless investigators deem the death to be a homicide.

Police have said a group of men were gathered at the parking lot after a soccer game, when a dark pickup truck pulled in.

Two suspects then got out and shot at the men before taking off in the truck, police have said.

Police say they do not believe the suspects and victims knew each other.

CBC News obtained surveillance video showing a police vehicle following a dark-coloured truck in the area Sunday, then chasing suspects on foot. A police source told CBC News that investigators have no direct evidence tying the truck, which was stolen, to the shooting at this time. A forensics team is also examining the vehicle.

On Monday, Parkes’s daughter and wife spoke to the media, saying he was a good man much loved by his family.

Heather Parkes, his wife, had a message for the shooters: “Turn yourself in. Just turn yourself in. It’s not fair, Our world was taken from us for no reason… I want justice.”

Investigators are still searching for suspects and are asking for the public to come forward if they have any information.