Toronto police say they believe the death of a tattoo shop owner may have been a targeted attack motivated by robbery.
Wasfi Ghalban, 47, was found with significant signs of trauma at his apartment on Dec. 3 after a friend reported him missing to police.
Paramedics were called to the second-floor apartment (at 200 Wellesley Street East near Sherbourne Street) but Ghalban was pronounced dead at the scene.
Det. Sgt. Mike Carbone says police do not believe Ghalban was involved in any criminal activity, but the state of his apartment led them to believe he was robbed.
Carbone would not say what evidence investigators found in the apartment and declined to reveal the cause of death.
But police have released surveillance video from the building that shows two "persons of interest" in the case and say they'd like to speak to them or anyone who might know them.
Police say the video shows two men entering the building around 10 p.m. on Dec. 1 and making their way upstairs, one by elevator and the other by the stairs.
Ghalban, who ran a tattoo parlour on Yonge Street, was single but had family in Ontario as well as in Europe, Carbone said.
(680News, The Canadian Press)
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