Toronto Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with a shooting that occurred over the summer which left a 46-year-old man dead in North York’s Humber Summit neighbourhood.

The 17-year-old was arrested Wednesday and is now facing second-degree murder charges, police said in a press release Thursday.

Police say shortly after 5 a.m. on Aug. 25, they received a call about a man who had been shot at 172 Toryork Dr., a commercial building near Weston Rd. and Finch Ave. W., Insp. Norm Proctor told reporters at the site of the incident. The victim died at the scene and was later identified as 46-year-old Alexis Charles.

Charles was Toronto’s 41th homicide victim of 2019.

The suspect cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

He was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, December 5, 2019, at 2201 Finch Avenue West, in courtroom 204, at 10 a.m.

Gun violence continues to be at record levels in Toronto. As of Monday, 264 people had been killed or injured in shootings this year

The combined total of injuries and deaths this year is up 27 per cent from the same date in 2018, which set the city’s record for the most homicides in a single year.

Nine fewer people have been killed by guns so far in 2019.