Moss Park is a Toronto neighbourhood located south of Dundas Street, between Jarvis Street and Parliament Street. The southern boundary is usually considered to be Queen Street. Moss Park Toronto is a largely residential neighbourhood and it is home to several community housing projects. It is one of the Toronto neighbourhoods with the most property crime. The region also ranked first in violent crime among Toronto neighbourhoods, according to the Toronto Star. There is an average of 20.81 crimes against people per 1,000 in the area and 45.94 crimes against property per 1,000. In 2007, a man was shot in the head and killed inside an apartment building. From CP24:
A man in his mid-20s was gunned down in a downtown apartment building on Shuter and Sherbourne Streets. He was shot in the head just after 9 p.m., police say. They found his body on the seventh floor, near the elevators. The victim was rushed to St. Michael’s hospital but he was pronounced dead soon after arriving. Investigators are scouring through security camera tapes, hoping to catch a glimpse of the suspect.
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Friends of a Toronto man who was beaten to death with a baseball bat on a downtown street corner say the attack was payback from the victim of a $25 robbery. Police, who have not released Simpson’s name, say he was involved in a street fight with another man that started around 9 p.m. and ended with the victim being taken to St. Michael’s Hospital. He was pronounced dead the next day, just after 5 p.m. People who knew Simpson said word had travelled quickly that he was attacked by a man he had robbed of $25 at knifepoint earlier the same evening. Police, who have not released Simpson’s name, say he was involved in a street fight with another man that started around 9 p.m. and ended with the victim being taken to St. Michael’s Hospital. He was pronounced dead the next day, just after 5 p.m. People who knew Simpson said word had travelled quickly that he was attacked by a man he had robbed of $25 at knifepoint earlier the same evening.
In a very high-profile 2005 case, a homeless man was beaten to death in Moss Park. Also from the Toronto Star:
On Aug. 31, 2005, 59-year-old Paul Croutch was beaten to death in the wee hours of the morning at Moss Park, in downtown Toronto. There was no evidence during the trial that Croutch had ever fought back. Croutch, a one-time community newspaper publisher, was sleeping in a well-lit area. He was afraid of shelters and found them to be dangerous. He used garbage bags in an attempt to protect himself from the pouring rain. Croutch also had been in poor health. He suffered from heart disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, emphysema and swelling in the legs. During the incident, Croutch was kicked and punched in the head, midsection and back. Before being taken off life-support several hours later at St. Michael’s Hospital, he had suffered fractured ribs, a torn spleen and a fatal brain injury.