Police continue to hunt suspects in Toronto, Mississauga deaths

Police in Toronto and neighbouring Mississauga are continuing three separate homicide investigations.

There were two late-afternoon slayings Tuesday in Toronto — one in the east-end Driftwood area where 18-year-old William Junior Appiah was shot to death while he was playing basketball.

The other was the stabbing death of a teenager in an east-end housing complex on Kennedy Road, south of Sheppard Avenue. The teen, whose name has not yet been released, had been in a fight with two other men.

In Mississauga, Peel regional police are investigating the death of a 23-year-old man, Paramprit Dhinsa, who was shot and killed while sitting in a car near the intersection of Airport Road and Derry Road.

Peel police are looking for two black males suspected of being involved in the Mississauga shooting. One is described as 18 to 21 years old with a medium build, black hair and wearing a dark blue T-shirt.

The other is described as 14 to 18 with a medium build, a clean-shaven head and last seen wearing dark blue jeans and a dark shirt.

Basketball-court slaying victim targeted: police

At the basketball court at Jane Street and Driftwood Avenue where William Appiah was shot dead Tuesday, police forensic teams were still at work Wednesday.

Police says they believe Appiah, who grew up in the area but was not currently living there, had been targeted by his killers.

They are looking for three men who were wearing hooded sweatshirts and dark clothing and left the scene in a car.

The basketball court and playground where the shooting happened are right beside a Toronto community housing highrise.

Neighbour Nicole Stamp said children who live in the building were traumatized, including one boy in particular.

"He saw the body. He saw everything," she said. "He was even telling me at what time they saw the body, like 'They took the body in the night.' So for a child to be seeing these things, yes, it has a huge impact."