Man, 18, shot dead in townhouse complex walkway

Man, 18, shot dead in townhouse complex walkway. Toronto police officers guard the perimeter of a murder scene on Driftwood Avenue Sunday evening, as the investigation goes on around the victim's body. A man was gunned down on a townhome development walkway.

Police are looking for four males after an 18-year-old man was gunned down Sunday evening in a North York townhouse complex walkway.

Delane Daley was shot around 7:55 p.m. at a housing project on the south side of Driftwood Avenue east of Jane Street, next to a community centre.

"He had gone into the area to visit with a friend," Det. Sgt. Dean Burks said. "He had actually been playing basketball at the community centre earlier in the day."

Daley was pronounced dead at the scene.

"This is awful. This is terrible," said a local resident who walked by the police tape surrounding Daley's body. "I'm scared of this area."

Another distraught woman described the victim as a "funny guy."

She said she saw him just before the gunfire.

Burks, of the homicide squad, said police are still trying to identify the four males who were with Daley prior to his death.

The males were seen running eastbound through the townhouse complex after the shooting.

"We are appealing to the public or anybody with information to contact us," Burks said.

Police haven't yet established a motive in the case.

Daley, the city's 78th murder victim of 2007, was shot several times back on Aug. 27 on nearby Shoreham Court.

Burks said a suspect in that incident is in jail.

"Sounds like he (Daley) bounced back pretty quick," Burks said. "We don't know why he came back to the area, especially after what had happened to him in August."

Burks said Daley lived in the area in the past but had recently moved in with his mother who lives in a different part of the city.

Anyone with information on the murder is asked to call police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477).