Toronto police have identified the man who was shot and killed in broad daylight while driving in the Humber Summit area in Etobicoke on Wednesday.

Police responded to multiple reports of a shooting around 11 a.m. at Islington Ave. and Milady Rd. When they arrived on scene they found a man in the driver’s seat of a dark-coloured Dodge Journey suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead a few minutes later, police said.

Kevin Boakye, 24, from Toronto was identified as the victim by police on Thursday. Police said he is originally from Ghana and was a father of two.

Boakye was the only person in the vehicle at the time, homicide Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux said in a news conference Thursday afternoon.

Police believe the attack was targeted. “I think they were looking for him. Or else they received some information that he was in a certain place at a certain time,” Giroux said.

Boakye was known to police, but did not have any known gang affiliations, police said.

Minutes before Boakye was fatally shot, Giroux said Boakye was sitting at a red traffic light on Duncanwoods Dr., one intersection north of where Boakye would be found by police, waiting to turn left onto Islington Ave. to go south.

A vehicle driving west along Duncanwoods Dr. pulled up to the passenger side of Boakye’s car and the driver fired numerous shots, Giroux said.

The shooter’s vehicle is described as a newer model, silver or grey Hyundai Elantra and was last seen racing north on Islington Ave.

Boakye, injured, accelerated through the red light and drove south on Islington Ave., police said.

“The deceased drove 300 feet on the boulevard knocking down and uprooting trees and metal sign posts,” Giroux said, adding the victim then drove diagonally across all four lanes of Islington Ave., mounted the east sidewalk and drove through a chain-link fence and some bushes of a residential home.

There were no other injuries reported.

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Boakye is the city’s 59th homicide of the year.

The homicide unit is appealing to any witnesses to come forward and contact police at 416-808-3100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477). Specifically, the individual who was in the car directly behind Boakye while waiting for the red light at Duncanwoods Dr. and Islington Ave, police say.