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Death can come in less than a minute in Toronto these days.

In the middle of the day, around schools and a fleeting negative encounter.

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That’s the way it was for the city’s 83rd homicide of 2018, 18-year-old Elliott Reid-Doyle.

Reid-Doyle was shot to death on Oct. 3 at 1:32 p.m. in a Scarborough strip plaza at Birchmount and Bonis Ave.

On Friday, Toronto Police released crystal clear video and images of the man they believe to be the shooter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffmpWKQf29I&feature=youtu.be

But homicide Det. Leslie Dunkley doesn’t believe the murder was a targeted hit or a settling of gangland accounts.

“The two had a verbal interaction in the parking that lasted less than a minute,” Dunkley told reporters.

“We don’t believe they knew each other prior to this. The shooting was a reaction to this interaction.”

While Dunkley said detectives are “leaving all doors open” in the case, he added police aren’t sure whether the killer was “in the area for a particular reason” or if he is a local.