Toronto Sun
June 18, 2015
Police are searching for three suspects after a teen who recently moved to the city to pursue a carpentry career was gunned down in a parking lot Sunday while trying to track down his lost cellphone.
Officers arrested three men in a cab soon after the deadly shooting of Jeremy Cook, 18, but they were released after it was determined they weren’t involved.
“We had reasonable grounds at the time to arrest these individuals because at the time there was reason to believe they were responsible,” Const. Ken Steeves said Monday.
Cook was originally from Brampton, Ont., but recently moved southwest to London. He had never been in trouble with the law in London and didn’t know his killers, police said.
So far the investigation shows Cook accidentally left his cellphone in a taxi earlier that morning or the previous night. He used a device to track the phone to an address, police said.
Cook and a relative went there and approached a silver Mazda sedan with three men in it at about 5:15 a.m. Sunday.
The men inside weren’t giving the phone back to Cook, police said.
During the confrontation over the phone, one man jumped out of the car and walked away and the driver stepped on the gas.