Stories of Murder in Toronto's Gay Village
Akim Fleming and his partner Rajiv Ralph were murdered on February 27, 2024 near their 111 Hickory Tree Road home. Both men were shot in the early morning hours. A black SUV, or possibly 2 vehicles, were seen fleeing the scene. The two men were shot at around 4:40 a.m. just 500 metres from their … Read more
Julie Berman was an internationally known trans rights activist living in Toronto. Fifty-one-year-old Berman was found in her Brunswick Avenue and Harbord Street area home on Sunday, December 22, 2019. Police had been called to the scene, where they found her suffering from “significant” face and head injuries. She was pronounced dead in hospital. Berman … Read more
On the night of Tuesday, December 15, 2015, Donna Maloney was wrapping Christmas presents at her home on McGill Street in downtown Toronto. She heard screams, the Crown told a jury in May 2018. She went to her door. She saw a man standing over another man and stabbing him. “What are you doing?” Maloney … Read more
The body of Allan Lanteigne, 49, was found still dressed in his coat, face down in the front foyer of his home on March 3, 2011 just before 3:30p.m. He had been beaten to death. Lanteigne was a caterer and an accounting clerk at the University of Toronto and, when he did not show up … Read more
On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 4, 2009, a family friend went to check on Gerald Robert Brown at his home on Bedford Road in Toronto’s Annex. She had not heard from him in days, the National Post reported. His entrance, at the back of the house, was unlocked. She found his body and called … Read more
Christopher John Andrew Skinner was 27 when he was purposefully struck and killed by an SUV on October 28, 2009. He was killed in Toronto’s Entertainment District at Adelaide St. East and Victoria Street and police immediately began searching for CCTV and security video footage from businesses in the area. He was engaged and planning … Read more
On Monday July 14, 2008, sixty-four-year-old William Ross Magill was pronounced dead at his home on 40 Delisle Avenue. He had been stabbed. Magill, how usually went by Ross Magill, had been a gifted interior designer prior to his three-year descent into sex and drugs and alcohol. Friends said he had begun to bring home … Read more
On Friday, June 2, 2006, Toronto police responded to an emergency call at a 10th-floor apartment on Strathmore Boulevard, near Coxwell and Danforth avenues. CityNews reported that police were called after reports that a man was unconscious. Inside they found Lawrence Callahan, 64. He had serious head wounds, CityNews reported. The Star reported “obvious signs … Read more
Although it took the jury less than four hours to acquit Ivan Mendez-Romero of killing his lover Janko Naglic, and no other person has ever been charged, Toronto police consider Naglic’s murder to be “case closed.” Naglic, 58, was murdered on October 27, 2004 and found in his home on Balliol Street. Naglic was renowned … Read more
Police Constable Glen Wilson was the first officer into the 17th-floor apartment on Jackes Avenue, near Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue East, on Tuesday, January 6, 2004. He described what he found to the jury at a murder trial in February 2006, the Toronto Star reported. A 78-year-old man lay face down on the … Read more
At about 6:58 a.m. on Friday, January 19, 2001, Toronto police were called to 1 Spadina Crescent, a University of Toronto building north of College Street. A caretaker had found a man on the second floor. Emergency crews tried to save him. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Det. Ken Taylor, the lead homicide … Read more
At 12:45 a.m. on Tuesday, May 23, 2000, a Toronto police cruiser spotted a black 1998 Volvo near police headquarters at Bay and College streets. The Toronto Star reported that the driver ran when he saw the cruiser. Officers stopped him a few blocks away, at Toronto General Hospital, at University Avenue and Gerrard Street … Read more
A phone call brought police to an apartment on Tyndall Avenue in Parkdale on Saturday, April 29, 2000. Inside was the body of James Campbell, 63. The Toronto Star reported that his sister had found him and that police believed he knew his attacker. James Thomas Campbell was known as Jimmy. The Star spelled it … Read more
July 7, 1999 was seventy-two-year-old Hugh Sinclair’s last day alive. Sinclair was murdered in his 42nd-storey apartment at 44 Charles Street West in the Manulife Centre. His murderer would be convicted before his body was found. Sinclair was a retired Sun Life insurance company employee and an avid antiques collector. He met Timothy Culham, 29, … Read more
On Friday night, May 30, 1997, a lawyer directed investigators from the Metro police homicide squad to an apartment. In the bathroom they found the body of James Edward Detzler, 54. The lawyer acted for Steven Todd Craig, 26, of Dundas Street East. The apartment was Craig’s home, the Globe and Mail later reported. Craig … Read more