70-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in Mississauga homicide

A police vehicle is seen outside the scene of an April 27 homicide in Mississauga. (David Ritchie/CTV News Toronto)

A 70-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man died in a “targeted” shooting inside a surveillance equipment store in Mississauga, police say.

Peel Regional Police (PRP) say on Monday, just after 8:30 a.m., officers and paramedics responded to a call for an unresponsive male at a business plaza at 450 Matheson Blvd. E., near Kennedy Road South.

They found a 62-year-old man from Mississauga inside a store suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on scene, police previously said.

“Despite lifesaving efforts, the male succumbed to his injuries,” investigators, who have not named the victim, said in an April 28 news release.

The motive for this fatal shooting remains under investigation as well as the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Murder charge announced

Peel police formally announced on Tuesday that Howard Brodsky, 70, of Thornhill, has been charged with first-degree murder.

He has been remanded into custody.

CP24 exclusively confirmed on Monday that Brodsky was to be charged with first-degree murder when he appeared before a Justice of the Peace Tuesday morning.

Brodsky, according to police sources, was arrested at his home on King High Drive without incident yesterday.

Sources told CP24 that he arrived home after allegedly shooting the victim on Matheson Drive in Mississauga and called police at around 10 a.m. saying he’d shot someone.

A neighbour described seeing officers at that residence with guns drawn.

Several other people who live in the area said they saw Brodsky’s wife and six dogs exiting the home.

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On Monday, Peel Regional Police would only say that a male in his 70s has been arrested and charged in connection with the homicide. They would not say exactly what charges, if any, he would be facing.

York Regional Police, meanwhile, told CP24 that they responded to a “weapons call” in Vaughan, near King High Drive and Concord Road, on Monday morning. That call, they said, was connected to the accused.

This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact PRP’s Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau at 905-453-2121, ext. 3205, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.

With files from CP24’s Beatrice Vaisman