Toronto police say the man killed in a Corktown shooting Saturday morning was attending a memorial for a friend who was himself fatally shot last month.

Police were called to a Shell gas station parking lot at Parliament St. and Richmond St. E. just after 2 a.m. Saturday after reports of gunshots.

They arrived to find the victim, whom police identified Sunday as 27-year-old Julian Weekes, “clinging to life,” suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Life-saving efforts were made by paramedics, but he was subsequently pronounced dead on scene.

After following a trail of blood, investigators were able to determine the shooting happened a short distance away outside Annie’s Bar on Queen St. E.

Witnesses reported Weekes was running and walking along Queen and southbound on Parliament and appeared to be intoxicated, police said.

In a news conference Sunday, Det. Sgt. Michael Patterson said that before Weekes was shot he was attending a memorial celebration at Annie’s that night for his friend Ceyon Carrington, who was gunned down in a Leslieville alleyway on March 23. Patterson said circumstances in the two homicides were similar, and that Carrington was also shot “by a coward carrying a gun.”