A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a student on University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus (UTSC) last month, police say.
Babatunde Afuwape, a 28-year-old Toronto man, is accused of fatally shooting 20-year-old Shivank Avasthi on a popular campus trail on Dec. 23, Det.-Sgt. Stacey McCabe said at a news conference Wednesday.
Around 3:30 p.m. that day, officers were called to the area of Highland Creek Trail and Old Kingston Road for unknown trouble, Toronto police said last month.
Police arrived to find Avasthi with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The shooting was Toronto’s 41st homicide of 2025.
Avasthi was a third-year University of Toronto student from India, McCabe said.
“He was young, bright, and had his whole life ahead of him. Our thoughts remain with his family, friends and classmates,” she said. “This was a deeply tragic case.”
