The Toronto police homicide unit is investigating after a body was foundalong the shoreline of Lake Ontario last week.

Police said the body of 25-year-old Ayoub Mohamed was found March 24 in Burlington. After an autopsy March 27, police deemed the death as “suspicious.”

The Toronto man had been reported missing by his family on March 13.

He was last seen at 8 p.m. on March 11, in the Eglinton Avenue West and Weston Road area.

He was seen getting into a dark-coloured SUV, possibly a dark-coloured 2019-20 Chevrolet Equinox, police said at the time.

This is the 17th homicide of the year in Toronto.

David Venn is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto. Follow him on Twitter: @davidvenn_

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