Police have identified the victim of a 'very brazen' daylight shooting in the city's downtown core as 21-year-old Toronto rapper Houdini.
TORONTO -- Police have identified the victim of a “very brazen” daylight shooting in the city’s downtown core as 21-year-old Toronto rapper Houdini.in the area of King Street and Blue Jays Way.
Word of Houdini's death spread quickly on social media on Tuesday night. Several posts and comments were written online honouring his life and the mark he made on Toronto and Canada's hip-hop music scene. “He was an independent rising star widely considered on his way to ‘making it’ in the music industry and appreciation for his music already extended way past the GTA,” Plunkett said. “Very few Canadian hip-hop artists have been able to achieve the views and streams independently that Houdini did, which makes the fact that he didn’t get to take his career to the next level even more devastating.
He said the fatal shooting is believed to be a targeted attack as initial evidence obtained at the scene indicated that the suspects were waiting in a vehicle for around 40 minutes prior to gunfire erupting.
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