Sammy Yatim’s shooting death by a former Toronto police officer was a homicide, a coroner’s inquest has found more than a decade after his death.

Yatim, 18 at the time, died in a downtown Toronto hospital after he was shot several times while alone on a streetcar and holding a small knife on July 27, 2013.

His cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest, the inquest has found.

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  • @krnl386
    1•3 months ago

    I remember reading about this on line 1 on my way to work…

    I always found it odd the way convictions worked in this case, i.e. it was only the second volley of shots, fired after the victim was already down, that resulted in the attempted murder conviction.