Canada-wide arrest warrants issued for 7 men in deadly shooting in Toronto

Six men from Toronto and a Mississauga man are wanted by police on Canada-wide arrest warrants for second-degree murder in connection with a deadly shooting near the border between the two cities.

Toronto Police said on Tuesday they have one man in custody and the hunt is on for seven others after Anthony Taylor, 28, was gunned down at around 8 p.m. on May 31 inside an apartment building near Queen’s Plate Drive and Rexdale Boulevard in Toronto’s west end.

Officers responding to a gunshot call found Taylor suffering from a bullet wound. While life-saving measures were performed, he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said in a news release, noting the death was Toronto’s 12th homicide of 2026.

Ernest Gyamfy, 30, of Toronto, was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with second-degree murder.

Anthony Taylor, 28, was shot to death in Toronto’s west end on May 31. (Photo: Toronto Police)

On Tuesday, police revealed the identities of seven additional suspects in the slaying.

Justin Nichol, 23, of Mississauga, and Toronto residents Dejohn Marlin, 23, Kobina Ackon, 30, Gideon Addae, 24, Lincoln Picart, 35, Daniel Addae, 23, and Kyondre Davis, 23, are each wanted on a second-degree murder charge.

Gideon Addae and Picart are additionally charged with possess firearm without a licence and possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.

(Image: Toronto Police)