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A man has been arrested in a brazen drive-by shooting death in the city’s west-end this week.

Shamoi Palmer, 23, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and charged with the first-degree murder of 32-year-old Jermaine George Titus, who was gunned down while driving his car along Weston Rd. Wednesday morning.

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Toronto Police Det. Sgt. Michael Patterson told a Thursday afternoon press conference that named Palmer as the wanted suspect that Titus was a hard-working father of a four-year-old son with no criminal past.

“His death was senseless,” he said.

“He has no gang affiliations or past criminal convictions, he appeared to be a man who worked very hard and loved his son very much.”

Police were called to the Jane St. and Weston Rd. area a little after 10 a.m. Wednesday for reports of gunfire. They found Titus behind the wheel of his car — shot to death by a man driving an SUV passing by in the oncoming lanes of Weston Rd.