Police are investigating after a 28-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed Saturday night, and two others were injured.

Toronto police were called to the area of Markham and Kingston roads shortly after 9 p.m. for reports of a shooting. They found three victims.

One man was shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. He has been identified as 28-year-old Stephon Kelly. Another man in his 50s was shot in the head and was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries. And a woman in her 40s was injured in the hand and was treated at the scene.

Police say they are looking for at least two suspects that may have left the scene in a silver vehicle.

Kelly is Toronto’s sixth homicide victim of 2020, and the fourth to die in a shooting.

Including him, four men and two women have been killed in Toronto so far this year. They are:

Ahmed Yakot, 21, was shot near River and Oak streets in Regent Park at 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 1. He died the next day in hospital.

Paul Anthony DeSouza, 25, was shot in a residence at 367 Military Trail in Scarborough around 2 a.m. on Jan. 11 and was pronounced dead at hospital.

Maryna Kudzianiuk, 49, was found seriously injured in an apartment building at 25 Bay Mills Boulevard, near Sheppard Avenue East and Warden Avenue, after a fire at 3 a.m. on Jan. 13. She was pronounced dead at hospital.

Safiullah Khosrawi, a 15-year-old Woburn C.I. student, was shot at Markham and Ellesmere Roads on Jan. 20. He died in hospital. Police said he “was completely innocent.” Another 15-year-old Woburn student has been charged with second-degree murder.

Giulia Matthews, 54, was found dead inside a home in York’s Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood in the St. Clair Avenue West and Atlas Avenue area on Jan. 20. Police found Matthews after they were called to conduct a wellness check. A boy has been arrested and charged with second degree murder, his identity cannot be released under the Youth and Criminal Justice Act.

*** Stephon Kelly, 28, was shot in the area of Markham Road and Kingston Road at around 9 p.m. on Jan. 25. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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