A 15-year-old Indian-origin boy was shot dead by unidentified assailants here.
Andrew Naidoo was shot dead on Sunday while he was talking to his friends outside his home in northwest Toronto.
He was shot several times, Globe and Mail newspaper reported. At least 10 shots were fired, police believe.
His brother and mother frantically tried to revive him before he was taken to a hospital.
"I was saying to myself, 'What on the face of the Earth is this? What is this?' I was trying my best to see what I could do, and then the paramedics came and took over," Alythe Ford, a retired nurse, said.
Andrew succumbed to his injuries at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's trauma unit. He was Toronto's 23rd homicide victim in 2011 and the youngest.
Andrew's family emigrated from Guyana, but his father died several years ago, and Andrew lived with his older brother and sister and his mother.
He had had brushes with the law, but they were minor, the newspaper quoted a police source as saying.
Homicide detectives said there were multiple suspects in the shooting, and possibly a second victim who may have fled the scene, along with the killers.
Andrew's family is "devastated", said Detective Peter Trimble of the homicide squad.
"It's a 15-year-old boy....it's terrible, it's
absolutely terrible."