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‘Complete stranger’ with cache of guns arrested in Toronto killings of international student and 35-year-old man, police say

A Toronto man has been arrested in the shocking daylight killings of Indian international student Kartik Vasudev, 21, and 35-year-old Elijah Eleazar Mahepath, victims police say were “apparent strangers” to the man who allegedly shot and killed them downtown last week.

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Easier access – Police make arrest in two seemingly random homicides, suggest suspect may have been planning other shootings

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a pair of seemingly random shootings that they say targeted two “completely innocent” men just going about their lives.

The first shooting took place outside the Glen Road entrance to Sherbourne Station at around 5 p.m. on April 7, resulting in the death of 21-year-old Seneca College student Kartik Vasudev.

Richard Jonathan Edwin, 39, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Earlier coverage – Harris said the suspect was last seen on foot south on Glen Road and is described as a Black male who stands approximately five-foot-six to five-foot-seven with a medium build.

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