Suspect Arrested in Ontario Double Murder

0:00A 19-year-old man from Edmonton wanted in two Ontario killings has been arrested in Calvary. Isaiah Thomas Badger was taken into custody last Thursday and now faces first-degree murder charges for the deaths of two men earlier this year. Toronto and York police made the announcement on Sunday. The first victim was 37-year-old Shandon Kumar Raja Nanda Kumar, a software engineer from Brampton. He was shot around 3.30 p.m. on February 7 in the parking lot of Woodbine Shopping Center in Atobikoke. Police found him in a car with life-threatening wounds and he later died in hospital. Investigators say Badger acted alone in that attack. Friends remembered Raja Nanda Kumar as kind, helpful, and soft-spoken. He was the third homicide victim in Toronto that year and police believe he was targeted. The news hit his community hard with many shocked by the loss of such a gentle person. The second case involved 65-year-old Sergio Lopez from Richmond Hill.

1:00He was shot multiple times just after 1 p.m. on January 26 outside his carpentry business in Vaughan. Lopez, a respected community member and devoted family man, also died in hospital despite emergency efforts. Meanwhile, another 19-year-old Jacob Wallace from Mississauga faces charges in Lopez's death for allegedly driving the getaway car along with. Arson after police found a burned black SUV nearby. Wallace was arrested on March 5 in Musin the Ontario. Badger also faces an arson charge as the cases move forward in court. From your city, powered by AI, this is Canada News Today. I'm Corey with the story.