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WEBVTT ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO BE THE SAME WAY. TOBIAS JONES IS IN SHOCK. >> NOT PREPARED FOR THIS, NOT AT ALL. UNTHINKABLE. GEORGE POLICE SAY HIS SON WAS : KILLED DURING WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CELEBRATORY WEEKEND IN TORONTO. >> I'VE BEEN ABLE TO DEAL WITH LOSS BUT NEVER IN MY MIND DID I EVER THOUGHT I'D HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE LOSS OF ONE OF MY CHILDREN. GEORGE TORONTO POLICE SAY : THEY'RE STILL LOOKING FOR 2 PEOPLE WHO ALLEGEDLY BEAT AND KICKED JULIAN JONES TO DEATH AS HE LEFT A BAR IN TORONTO SATURDAY MORNING. THE 26-YEAR-OLD UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE UNDERGRAD WENT TO CANADA TO CELEBRATE A FRIEND'S BACHELOR PARTY. POLICE SAY THE ATTACK WAS UNPROVOKED. >> THE ACCIDENT THE BAR AND THERE WAS AN ALTERCATION IN PROGRESS, THEY WALKED PAST THE ALTERCATION. BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE LEAVING THIS BAR AND OTHER LOCAL BARS, MR. JONES GOT SEPARATED IN FROM HIS FRIENDS AND HE WAS ASSAULT AND STOMPED ON AND WAS PRONOUNCED DECEASED ON ROUTE TO HOSPITAL. GEORGE TORONTO POLICE SAY THEY : NEED TO SPEAK TO AS MANY AS 9 PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THOSE FIGHTS. AND POLICE TELL THE GLOBE AND MAIL NEWSPAPER, THE TWO MALE SUSPECTS WERE IDENTIFIED ON VIDEO TAKEN AT THE SCENE. JONES WAS STUDYING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HUM ECOLOGY, AND WAS ON TRACK TO GRADUATE NEXT SEMESTER. HE GREW UP IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. WE SPOKE TO HIS FATHER LATE THIS AFTERNOON. >> HE HAD FAITH IN MANKIND, HE HAD FAITH THAT PEOPLE WOULDN'T DO THIS SUCH OF THING AND THEY DID IT TO HI GEORGE: JULIAN JONES WAS ENGAGED, SAID TO BE MARRIED IN NIAGARA FALLS THIS COMING SPRING.

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A man from Baltimore was killed during an attack Saturday night outside a bar in Toronto. Julian Jones, 26, was in Toronto celebrating a friend’s bachelor party when he got separated from his group while leaving a bar, according to police. A fight was already taking place, officials say, and Jones was beaten and repeatedly kicked in the head. "They exited the bar and there was an altercation already in progress. They walked past that altercation, based on a number of people that were leaving this bar and other local bars, Mr. Jones got separated from his friends and he was assaulted and stomped on and was pronounced deceased en route to hospital," said Detective Rob North of the Toronto Police Department. A number of witnesses have come forward and turned over video to police. Investigators were looking for two suspects as of Monday morning, and wanted to talk with as many as nine others who may have been involved in the deadly assault. Police are treating the death as a homicide. Officials said they plan to release pictures of the suspects, and people of interest, in the coming days if they do not turn themselves in before. "To those of you who participated in the assault of Mr. Jones, I also ask you to contact a lawyer, turn yourself into police," North said. " We will again be releasing your images as well, and it’s a matter of time before we hunt you down and bring you to justice." Tobias Jones, the victim’s father, is in shock. "(I was) not prepared for this. (It’s) unthinkable," Tobias Jones said. "I’ve been able to deal with loss, but never in my mind (did I think) I’d have to deal with the loss of one of my children." Julian Jones used to work at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and was also engaged to be married. "He had faith in mankind, he had faith that people. He wouldn’t do this such of thing, and they did it to him," Tobias Jones said. The Anne Arundel County native was studying environmental sustainability and human ecology at the University of Baltimore. He was on track to graduate next semester.