Police say they have been unable to locate a crime scene in the city’s latest homicide and are appealing to members of the public who may have spotted the victim as he drove himself to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Vitaliy Ferynskyy, 32, showed up at Humber River Hospital's shuttered Finch Avenue site at around 3 a.m. with what police are calling a “very significant” stab wound.
Police say that Ferynskyy in turn discovered that the hospital, which is no longer a critical care facility, was closed for the night and banged on a door to get the attention of security guard, who called 911.
Paramedics then transported Ferynskyy to a trauma centre but he was pronounced dead some time later.
“We don’t know where he was prior,” Det. Sgt. Terry Browne told reporters on Monday. “There were a number of addresses that were being checked with relation to this yesterday but those were just investigative leads and I am not saying with any certainty whether they are or are not connected to this particular call.”
Browne said that Ferynskyy was “conscious and alert” when police first arrived on scene and was able to provide “some valuable information.”
The detective, however, said that police are still working to track Ferynskyy’s movements in the lead up to the stabbing and have so far only been able to confirm that he was alive and well at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
“We are trying to narrow down where he was in the moments leading up to his arrival at hospital,” Browne said. “He did suffer a very significant injury so it is my investigative belief that wherever this occurred it would have been in short proximity to where he ended up at the hospital.”
Ferynskyy was wearing a dark brown bomber jacket with light-fleece lining, black track pants and red running shoes at the time of the stabbing. He was driving a 2010 black four-door Hyundai Sonata
Browne said that police are asking anyone in an area bounded by Highway 400 and Keele Street in the vicinity of Finch Avenue to think back to the early hours of Sunday morning and review any surveillance camera footage that they may have.
“The appeal from me is to really look at your security cameras, if you have them. Be mindful that 3 a.m. in the morning is when we got the 911 call and I suspect it took no more than five or 10 minutes for him to get to hospital,” Browne said.
Browne said that Ferynskyy did not live in the immediate area of Humber River Hospital's Finch Avenue site and was likely in the neighhbourhood “purposely to meet with someone.”
