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TORONTO — Toronto Police say a 21-year-old man was targeted in the city’s 57th homicide of 2017.

Malique Ellis was shot several times around 10:30 a.m Sunday in an apartment building at 3121 Eglinton Ave. E.

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Police say he was followed into the building and gunned down in the hallway. While homicide detectives are on the case, they still don’t know the reason for the killing or the identity of the killer.

Could it be retaliation for another shooting five hours earlier? It’s too early to say.

A second victim was rushed to hospital after a 5 a.m. shooting in Scarborough’s Chester Le Blvd.-Langrove Terrace area. Police are asking anybody who may have witnessed the violence to call 42 Division or Crime Stoppers.

Crime specialist Ross McLean noted this is not the first shooting incident at that location this year. On April 15, 24-year-old Samatar Farah was shot to death in what Det. Jason Shankaran told the media was an ongoing dispute in the neighbourhood.

“The only thing that he did was be a resident of Chester Le Blvd.,” Shankaran said at the time.

In other weekend violence, at least six people suffered injuries after a fight broke out on Queen St. W. Police say the fight occurred early Saturday when two groups started fighting and one person pulled out a sharp item.

Police say paramedics were “swarmed” when they arrived on the scene by victims seeking medical assistance.

Police said the injuries ranged from minor to serious.