A man shot and killed in Yorkville late Monday night was a self-described tech junkie and CEO of a Toronto-based startup of a messaging platform called Vleepo.

Toronto police received a call at around 11:30 p.m., after witnesses reported a shooting and a person lying on the sidewalk at the intersection of Bay St. and Yorkville Ave. Matthew Staikos, 37, of Toronto, was found dead at the scene, police said.

The suspect fled the area in a vehicle described as a silver or grey four-door Mercedes.

Staikos’s death is the latest in a rash of shootings across the city over a 30-hour period. At around the same time Monday night, another shooting occurred near Yorkdale Shopping Centre; aA man in his 20s was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, paramedics say.

Just a day earlier, four separate shootings rocked the city. Three people were hurt and Venojan Suthesan, a 21-year-old York University student, was killed at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute in Scarborough.

No suspect information has been released for any of the Sunday night shootings.

According to police stats, there have been 162 shootings this year as of Sunday, an 11 per cent increase from the same time last year.