Ariyo Fakomi went into the books as Toronto homicide #0012022.
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Ariyo Fakomi, 37, was fatally shot in North York on Jan. 2, 2022. He was the city’s first homicide of the year.Whoever murdered family man Gars-Ara Kourjakian on Dec. 30, 2022 in an underground parking garage in Scarborough didn’t get the memo. The interior designer was shot to death in front of his five-year-old daughter at 5:30 p.m.
Det. Insp. Hank Idsinga said the murder rate for 2022 is about average and that his homicide unit is “staffed and well-equipped to handle 70 murders.”Toronto Police homicide Insp. Hank Idsinga.“The clearance of these murders has been steadily increasing as a direct effect of people’s perception of community safety and that helps act as a general deterrent.”
The veteran detective noted that homicide investigators saw an explosion of mental health-related homicides in 2020 and 2021 — the first two years of the COVID pandemic.“Not like we had during the height of the pandemic but it has slowed down naturally,” Idsinga said of 2022.Over the past five years, a lot of the big city murders that had previously been kept to the confines of the GTA have now spread like a cancer to smaller communities like Thunder Bay, Sarnia and elsewhere.
Idsinga added that he is particularly proud of the vexing cases put down by his cold case unit, led by Det. Sgt. Steve Smith. Two of the city’s most heartbreaking cold cases have been solved over the past few years.
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