Peel Regional Police investigated 16 homicides in 2017 – six in Brampton, nine in Mississauga, and one that happened on the side of a highway somewhere between Brampton and Sault Ste. Marie.

Six of those murders remain unsolved, including four of the six in Brampton.

The vast majority of the victims – nine – were shot. Two were stabbed, one asphyxiated and the others died of “trauma” or “blunt force trauma.”