A 51-year-old Toronto man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 69-year-old Toronto man earlier this month that police said was believed to be targeted.

Toronto Police said officers responded on Dec. 9 at 4:05 a.m. to a call in the Fairholme-Shermount Aves. area of North York.

Police alleged that a man was outside a residential address on Fairholme and he had been shot. The man, identified as Mariano De-Marco, was pronounced dead at the scene.

On Tuesday, police said Mauricio Sosa Guillen was arrested and charged.

It was the city’s 82nd homicide of the year.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-7400, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or 222tips.com.

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