has been charged with first-degree murder <\/a>in the case, police said.<\/p>\nDet.-Sgt. Stacey McCabe told reporters that the motive for the fatal shooting remains unclear.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe he was there to kill somebody. How he chose that person, I don\u2019t know,\u201d McCabe said. <\/p>\n
She said the suspect was on campus for about an hour prior to the incident and investigators do not believe he was a student at the university. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like people who interacted with him at any point to contact us,\u201d McCabe said, adding that police have already spoken to a number of witnesses.<\/p>\n
She said the trail, known as \u201cthe valley,\u201d was a well-populated path that was utilized by students, staff, and members of the surrounding community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe recognize that this incident caused a great deal of fear and concern for students, staff and members of the community, particularly those that use this trail,\u201d McCabe noted. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe do want to reassure the community that the person responsible is in custody.\u201d <\/p>\n
She said the accused was out on parole for firearms offences at the time of the shooting and he was taken into custody by police on Dec. 28 for a parole violation. <\/p>\n
She called the homicide \u201ca deeply tragic case.\u201d <\/p>\n
Avasthi was a third-year international student at the university, McCabe added. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was young, bright and had his whole life ahead of him,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts remain with his family, friends, and classmates, and everyone affected by his loss.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police give an update on an arrest made after the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man near…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-499501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115855239844944382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Toronto Police released an image of 20-year-old Shivank Avasthi as the victim in an alleged fatal shooting near the University of Toronto\u2019s Scarborough Campus on Tuesday. Toronto Police released an image of 20-year-old Shivank Avasthi as the victim in an alleged fatal shooting near the University of Toronto\u2019s Scarborough Campus on Tuesday. <\/p>\n