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Police seized a vehicle that was at the hospital, then began searching the area around Frank Ryan Park for evidence related to the shooting. It’s not known what led them to identify that area as where Talal had been shot.

Less than two hours later, around 8:44 a.m., a man walking his dog found what he reported as an unconscious man on the driveway at 903 Tavistock Rd. Patrol officers responded to the residential area, in the same area where they were already searching for evidence in Talal’s shooting, and found Abdulrahman Al-Shammari, dead outside the front of the home. Abdulrahman had been shot once in the chest.

Police were alerted to the third victim after Abdulrahman’s white Mazda 3 was left running on Wayne Avenue East and Aylen Ave near the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway. The man inside, Dirie Olol, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the forehead.

Insp. John McGetrick said the body was found after a neighbour phoned police around 12:30 p.m. after seeing the car untouched for several hours. Its windshield wipers were still on as police peered inside Monday afternoon.

The veteran officer said the string of violence in one day shows the city is “not what it used to be.”

“We had a record number of homicides in the city last year, and I’m not going to say this is a trend, but the number of shootings in the city and a day like this is, quite frankly, horrific,” he said.

The victims are known to police, who continue to piece together what transpired in the early morning hours Monday that led to multiple shootings.