Homicide

A Queens mom was killed by a stray bullet that came through her bedroom window early Wednesday, police said. (New York Post)

A homicide investigation is underway in Mexico into the death of a suspected hit man who was a fugitive for two mob murders in Canada, National Post has learned. Michael Graham Cudmore, a violent career criminal, was wanted as the triggerman for two high-profile murders in Ontario: the 2017 shooting of Mafia figure Angelo Musitano in Hamilton and a botched hit weeks earlier in Vaughan that inadvertently killed Mila Barberi. (National Post)

An attorney for suspected militia member Kyle Rittenhouse — who is accused of fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin — has released a video he insisted shows the teen acted in self-defense. (New York Post)

It was a disturbing and horrifying discovery. A teenager shot and left dead on the side of the road June 30 in Milton not only shook the community, but left Halton Regional Police with few clues. (Toronto Sun)

A second man connected to the 2017 killings of Angelo Musitano in Hamilton and Mila Barberi in Vaughan was found dead this summer in Mexico, investigators say. (CP24)

A gangster who shot to death his prominent Hells Angel pal after an all-night, drug fuelled party in 2016 has been denied full parole. The Parole Board of Canada ruled recently that Jason Francis Wallace’s release from prison would leave the community at-risk because the bikers might retaliate for the fatal shooting of Bob Green in October 2016. (The Province)

Retired RCMP officer Wayne Rideout will never forget the Friday almost 13 years ago when he got a call about the murder of six people in a Surrey high-rise. Rideout, then the officer in charge of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, immediately dispatched two teams to the grisly crime scene. (The Province)

TORONTO - A man in his 50s is dead after he was shot while sitting in his car near Keele and Sheppard. Toronto Police inspector Mandeep Mann says a single shot was fired from another car in the area, and believes the shooting was targeted. (680 News)

An Arkansas nurse who disappeared while jogging last week was kidnapped, raped, murdered and buried by a local farmer, police said during a court hearing on Monday, according to multiple reports. (Fox News)

Startling video of a deadly shooting that unfolded at a Scarborough highrise early Wednesday shows a “cowardly” killer down from behind in what appears to be a targeted killing. (Toronto Sun)