A caller’s tip led police to the “likely” scene of a high-speed ambush and driveby shooting that killed three men early Sunday morning.

Police closed Kipling Avenue from The Queensway south to Evans Avenue today, July 24, after investigators found shell casings and projectiles on Kipling southbound between the Gardiner Expressway off-ramp and Evans Avenue.

Homicide Det.-Sgt. Dean Burks told reporters at a news conference held near the location that it would be “a very significant finding” in the case if firearms testing confirmed the area as the scene of the triple shooting.

Police are asking anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity in the area of Kipling Avenue and The Queensway on Sunday around 3 a.m. to call homicide detectives at 416-808-7400.

The driver of a gold-coloured Nissan Pathfinder carrying three men who were murdered early Sunday morning navigated through a hail of gunfire and shattered glass during a driveby shooting before abandoning the vehicle and his dying friends on Lunness Road, in the Brown’s Line-Horner Avenue area of Alderwood.

He fled on foot, scared for his life, police said.

The drive-by shooting killed Adrian Bannerman, 29, Aaron MacDonald, 20 and Kurt Charles, 27, all fathers of young children who lived in Etobicoke.

Investigators searched a stretch of Brown’s Line, just past the Evans Avenue overpass, where the Pathfinder’s driver said a black SUV pulled up close to the Pathfinder’s passenger side, its occupants firing multiple bullets.

But police found nothing — no spent bullet casings and no shattered glass.

Despite that fact, Burks said the driver remains a victim and a witness. Police do not consider him a suspect.

Detectives expect to re-interview the Pathfinder’s driver in coming days, Burks said.

“He’s a very, very lucky individual,” Burks said, speculating how the Pathfinder’s driver wasn’t also killed in the hail of gunfire.

The identity of the 9-1-1 caller, who directed police to the SUV abandoned on Lunness Road, remains a mystery.

Police have yet to determine a motive for the killings.

Burks said the four friends were at Fluid Nightclub on Richmond Street West from late Saturday night until early Sunday morning. Police believe the suspects were also at the club. But there was no altercation between the two groups, Burks said.

Police are going through surveillance video from both the entertainment district, and any traffic cameras or surveillance video from businesses in the area of The Queensway and the Kipling Avenue south Gardiner offramp.

Friends of the dead men told The Guardian earlier this week the men were not gang members, and were killed in cold blood.

Burks said he couldn’t “corroborate or deny” any gang connection of the victims.

“This isn’t necessarily about the background of the victims,” Burks said of the ambush killings. “Our focus is on getting the suspect or suspects off the streets.”