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On what should have been any other Monday, 15 year-old Safiullah Khosrawi was shot on his walk home from school in Toronto’s east end. The suspect: Another 15 year-old at Khosrawi’s own school.

Police aren’t willing to say that Khosrawi was the intended target of the shooting, he may have simply been killed while trying to get home. Det.-Sgt. Andy Singh said that Khosrawi was not known to police at all, had never been in trouble.

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The same can’t be said for the suspect, who cannot be named under the Youth Justice Act.

“This male is known to police,” Singh said of the accused. “We have identified with the accused, some gang ties.”

Police aren’t willing to say this shooting was gang-related but given that the accused has ties, they are investigating with an open mind. The family of the deceased, meanwhile, is in shock.

“He didn’t have an issue with anybody. Now I don’t have a brother anymore,” said Safiullah’s brother, Ahmad.