Toronto police have charged three men with first-degree murder following a homicide in a Scarborough underground parking lot on New Year’s Eve.

Clinton Phil Williams, 43, was shot after walking into the parking lot at 100 Wingarden Court, near Neilson Road and Finch Avenue East in the Malvern neighbourhood, just after 6 p.m. on Dec. 31, police said.

His injuries were initially deemed serious but not life threatening, however police said his condition deteriorated later and he died in hospital.

On Monday, police arrested Ethan Lee, 20, of Toronto, Kedar Guerra, 38, of Sarnia, and Atneil Nelson, 33, of Toronto.

They are all charged with first-degree murder.

They are scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Williams was the last of 41 men, two boys and one woman killed in shootings in Toronto in 2019.

Last year was the city’s bloodiest on record for overall gun violence, with 292 people injured or killed in shootings, more than in any year in police data that goes back to 2004, even adjusted for population growth.

Despite a more-than 20-per-cent increase in the number of shootings over the previous year, 2019 saw seven fewer people killed by guns than in 2018.