23-Year-Old Toronto Man Faces Second-Degree Murder Charge

By Staff The Canadian Press

Posted November 16, 2021 6:07 am

BRAMPTON, Ont. — A 23-year-old Toronto man is facing a murder charge in the shooting death of a man in Brampton, Ont. this past weekend.

Shortly after 4 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 13, Peel Regional Police were called to an area behind a shopping plaza near Brickyard Way and Quarry Edge Drive.

Officers discovered the body of a 45-year-old man who had been shot multiple times.

Working with Toronto Police, investigators for the Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau located a suspect near Broadview Avenue and Browning Avenue in Toronto.

Police say a search of the suspect’s home uncovered two firearms, including a loaded .22 calibre rifle investigators believe was used in the shooting,

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Carlton Brown is charged with second-degree murder, and appeared in a Brampton courtroom on Saturday, Nov. 14.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 16, 2021.