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A 37-year-old Indian-Canadian died aft being changeable by unidentified men successful the parking batch of a engaged buying centre successful Toronto, Canada connected Saturday (February 7, 2026).
In a connection connected February 8, the Toronto Police Service identified the unfortunate arsenic Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar of Brampton.
On Saturday, astatine astir 3.31 p.m., the constabulary responded to a telephone for a shooting successful the parking batch of Woodbine Shopping Centre located astatine Rexdale Boulevard and Highway 27, the connection said.
It said constabulary officers recovered a antheral with gunshot wounds erstwhile they arrived astatine the scene. The unfortunate was taken to the infirmary with life-threatening injuries.
The suspect, oregon suspects, fled the country successful a conveyance and the unfortunate succumbed to his injuries astatine the hospital, the constabulary said.
Mr. Chandan Kumar, primitively from Tyamagondlu, Nelamangala taluk, Bengaluru Rural territory of Karnataka, was an Information Technology professional.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting are not known, but officers judge it was a “targeted” incident.
Son of retired teacher
Mr. Chandan Kumar, the lone lad of retired teacher Nandakumar and Shailaja, a nonmigratory of Tyamagondlu, had been surviving successful Toronto, Canada, for the past 7 years and helium was moving astatine LTIMidtree.
Mr. Chandan Kumar was moving with ‘Toronto Kannada Sangha’ and successful the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple Trust successful Canada. Through the Kannada Sangha, helium was palmy successful organising programmes by inviting celebrated singers and artists from Karnataka.
Mourning successful Tyamagondulu
The Canadian constabulary informed the household astir the execution of Mr. Chandan Kumar astatine 10 p.m. connected Sunday nighttime done a telephone call. Mr. Chandan Kumar’s parents person appealed to the authorities to bring backmost their son’s body.
‘Painful news’
Reacting to the news, Home Minister G. Parameshwara said connected ‘X,’ “The quality of the sidesplitting of Chandan Kumar successful a shooting onslaught successful Toronto, Canada, is profoundly painful.”
He added that the practice of the Union Ministry of External Affairs had been sought done the State Police Department to bring Mr. Chandan Kumar’s mortal remains to India arsenic soon arsenic possible. “I person instructed the officials to supply assistance to the grieving household surviving successful Karnataka,” helium added.
Urging the Canadian authorities done the Union Ministry of External Affairs to behaviour a due probe into the execution of Mr. Chandan Kumar and supply justice, helium said, “Kannadigas surviving successful Canada should not beryllium disquieted astir this incident. The Karnataka authorities is committed to the information of each Kannadigas.”
MP for Chickballapur K. Sudhakar besides expressed his condolences.
“It is simply a precise shocking and saddening happening for each of america that Chandan Kumar, a nonmigratory of Tyamgondlu colony successful Nelamangala taluk, a autochthonal of Karnataka, who was an IT worker surviving successful Toronto, Canada, was killed successful a shooting connected Saturday. I explicit my condolences to the father, parent and household members of the deceased and americium making each effort to bring his assemblage to India arsenic soon arsenic imaginable with the practice of the Union Ministry of External Affairs,” said successful his societal media level ‘X.’
(With inputs from PTI)
