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Man charged with 1st-degree murder in North York shooting

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A 51-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man in North York earlier this month, Toronto police say.

The victim, 69-year-old Mariano De-Marco, was killed in the early morning hours of Dec. 9.

Police said a parking officer found De-Marco at around 4 a.m., with a gunshot wound and no vital signs lying in a driveway on Fairholme Avenue, in the area of Lawrence Avenue W. and Allen Road.

At the time, police said they believed the shooting was targeted.

On Tuesday, police said a 51-year-old man from Toronto was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in De-Marco’s death.

He was scheduled to appear at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre on Tuesday morning.

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