Parkdale Caught Up in a Drug Turf War

A struggle for control of the drug trade in a west-end Toronto neighbourhood led to the shooting death of a young man early Monday morning, police said Wednesday.

Sultan Dailey, 20, spent Sunday evening at a nightclub in the entertainment district. Sometime after midnight, he left with one or two friends and may have returned to his Parkdale home, near Queen Street and Lansdowne Avenue. Shortly after, he went out to the Close Springhurst parkette, just south of King Street, a few blocks away.

It was there that he was shot once in the head, dying instantly. Several hours later, passers-by found the body lying at the western edge of the park, on a footpath leading to a pair of apartment buildings on Jameson Avenue.

The parkette is a hotspot for drug deals and Mr. Dailey himself was known to officers as a dealer, police said.

"We strongly believe that Mr. Dailey's murder is directly related to drugs, drug trafficking and control of the drug trade in the Parkdale area," said Detective Renata Louhikari, one of the homicide-squad officers leading the investigation.

While police are still trying to connect the dots and identify the players in the local drug trade. Detective Louhikari said she is looking at other recent shootings in the area to see if any of them are connected to Mr. Dailey's slaying.

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Police say that a possible drug-related robbery may have led to the shooting death of a 19-year old man in Parkdale late Saturday.

Another man was injured in the shooting, which occurred around 11:30 p.m. in an apartment building on Jameson Avenue south of King Street West, Staff Sgt. David Vickers told ctvtoronto.ca.

Police say that gunfire broke out after a trio of men stormed a ground-floor balcony.

Toronto resident Christian Derro was shot in the lobby and died at the scene, police said. A 20-year-old man was also at St. Joseph's Health Centre with non-life threatening injuries. The victims were known to police, Vickers said.

On Sunday, as a friend came to the apartment complex to leave a rose for the young victim, other locals complained that the neighbourhood was plagued by violence.

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[Khakolate]

All of you young people in the struggle

fighting with others

fighting with yourself

pray that it will not take any more bullets for our future to realize their mistakes

Rest In Peace... brothers and sisters

[RoyalCompass]

@ArcticGooner do you swear? who gives a fuck you nerd faggot

[ripndipp]

hey its that fat ass brittney bitch, fucking loser.

[maziku]

used to tag a chick on dowling

[ArcticGooner]

I swear Weston is worst than this.

[TruonGuhh]

R.I.P. Christian And Sultan