Police Seek Relative in Murder of Two Etobicoke Women

Published on August 27, 2024

Authorities in Toronto are still on the lookout for a 33-year-old man deemed dangerous after two of his female relatives were found dead in an Etobicoke home last week. Joseph Ayala is wanted for second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of an 82-year-old woman and a 60-year-old woman, Toronto police said in an Aug. 25 press release. Toronto police officers responded to a call for a well-being check in the Sheldon Avenue and Silvercrest Avenue area at 1 p.m. Aug. 23. Joseph Ayala. (Toronto Police Service) “Officers … attended a home where they located two females suffering from injuries,” Det. Sgt. Jason Davis said in a press conference on Aug. 23. “Unfortunately, those females were beyond help, and those females were pronounced [dead] on the scene.”...

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