Toronto woman killed by former partner

Toronto police said Monday that the city's latest homicide victim was shot and killed in a west-end laneway by her former boyfriend.

"There are no other suspects," said Det. Scott Purches.

Andrene Graham, 40, was killed last Friday evening. She was shot in the head near the Dufferin Mall by Paul Michael Black, 41, who died the next day after "an interaction" with York regional police.

"Paul Black fled the scene and was not located until his contact with the York regional police," said Purches.

Graham, said Purches, was "well established in the neighbourhood, well respected, very religious. She had a number of children. All in all, a very successful and well liked person."

CBC News has learned that Graham had five children.

Purches said Graham and Black had ended a three-year relationship in July 2011.

"They had a previous relationship that had dissolved and that there was a criminal case that involved the two of them," he said.

Purchesrefused to give any specifics about the criminal case, but said Graham was the complainant.

The slain womans eldest daughter, Ciera, said that when Graham first met Black, the family supported the relationship because it seemed to make her mother happy.

"My mom was a very strong, stubborn, hard-headed person, but at the end of the day, she was still a really good mother," Ciera Graham told CBC News on Monday.

But the relationship deteriorated, especially as Black became "upset at the fact that she broke up with him," family friend Garth Bobb told CBC News.

Toronto police quickly determined Black was a person of interest in connection with the slaying of the 40-year-old woman but were unable to find him.

On Saturday, York regional police reported they had "interacted" with Black in a park near Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive. Black died of a gunshot wound. No details of the incident have been released.

The province's Special Investigations Unit is looking in to the death of Black.