A 26-year-old man shot dead on Dec. 29 outside his family’s Scarborough home, was a kind, caring “tech nerd” who once taught English in China, his sister says.

Koshin Yusuf was driving trucks six days a week while saving to start his own company, his 24-year-old sister Ilwaad said in an interview earlier this month.

He had just finished a long day — he routinely worked 14 hours straight as a freelance trucker — and was walking into the Scarborough building where his family lives.

Toronto police say two men armed with guns approached and fatally wounded him after Yusuf parked at 400 McCowan Rd. at 3 a.m.

“He was literally just doing what he’s always done,” Ilwaad said.

“My brother was the heart of my family. After losing his father at the age of 12, he became the father figure I and his two younger brothers needed,” she said. “Whoever took my brother from my family, they did not take his memory, nor did they diminish it.”

Yusuf, who loved computers, gaming and designing things online, “was always sitting in front of a computer with headphones on,” and produced websites on the side, his sister said.

He lived in Scarborough nearly his whole life, and spent 10 years at 400 McCowan, a Toronto Community Housing building that once had a bad reputation.

The highrise north of Eglinton Avenue was home to the “400 Crew,” targeted by police raids in 2009.

Since then, many families have moved in and people “don’t see much of the issues that the building used to have,” Ilwaad said.

“I never felt unsafe” at 400 McCowan, she added, and neither did Koshin, because nothing bad ever happened to them there.

Ilwaad said her brother recently moved elsewhere in Scarborough to be closer to work, but he was staying in the building while the rest of the family was on vacation.

From 2013 to 2016, he taught English to more than 80 students while studying software engineering at Wuhan University in Hubei, China.

But since he enjoyed driving, Yusuf decided to enter the trucking industry around 18 months ago, his sister said.

Around 300 people were at Yusuf’s funeral service at Salaheddin Islamic Centre, a Scarborough mosque where the family is well known.

“It just shows how loved he is,” said Ilwaad, who started a GoFundMe account to collect funds in her brother’s name.

All the money will go to charity, either to support activities for underprivileged youth in Scarborough, or for projects in Ethiopia, the country the Yusufs hail from.

There’s a severe drought in Ethiopia, and Yusuf once spoke of his desire to help provide water to people there, said Ilwaad.

“He would want us to build wells.”

Police, meanwhile, are asking for information about the shooting and any dashcam or security footage that might help the investigation. People can call 416-808-7400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.

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There is still no description of the suspects, homicide Det. Christopher Ruhl said this month.

Daniele Gauvin, a TCHC spokesperson, said the housing authority’s Community Safety Unit doesn’t consider 400 McCowan “a high-needs area” in terms of its crime rate or security needs.

After the shooting, Gauvin added, TCHC has worked with the city’s Community Crisis Response Team to address needs for support in the building. A meeting has been organized for Jan. 7 where residents can discuss their concerns.