With days left in the year, Toronto has so far recorded 44 homicides. It was a shocking and violent beginning to a year that has turned out to be anything but as Toronto records its lowest homicide rate since 1986.
That's down from 62 in 2010 and 80 in 2005, which was dubbed the ‘Year of the Gun' for a number of brazen shootings, including the Boxing Day slaying of a 15-year-old bystander outside the Eaton Centre.