Homicide detectives are trying to track the final movements of a man who was fatally shot in Etobicoke early Thursday morning.

Police identified the victim Friday as 25-year-old Abdulle Elmi of Toronto.

Elmi was shot to death on Meadowbank Road, near Burnhamthorpe Road and Highway 427, at about 4 a.m. He was found on the street after people reported hearing the sound of gunshots.

Police said an autopsy determined Elmi died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.

No one has been charged, and police are attempting to determine Elmi’s final movements before he wound up dead on a city street.

Investigators want to hear from people who saw Elmi near Yonge Street and College Street just after 3 a.m. on Thursday.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

Elmi is Toronto's 26th homicide victim of 2012.

Victim is fourth Somali-Canadian to be slain in two months

He is the fourth young Somali-Canadian man to be killed in the last two months, CTV Toronto’s Tamara Cherry reported.

For the Somali-Canadian community in Toronto, news of Elmi’s death is both tragic and shocking.

"I was literally shocked at the frequency of the numbers,” Ahmed Hussen, president of the Canadian Somali Congress, told CTV Toronto. “The numbers are really disturbing in such a short time."

Elmi’s killing follows the deaths of Ahmed Hassan, Nixon Nirmalendran and Hussein Hussein in June.

Hassan, 24, and Nirmalendran, 22, were fatally shot in the food court at Eaton Centre on June 2, while Hussein, 28, was gunned down inside a condo building on Harrison Garden Boulevard in North York on June 23.

In less than a decade, dozens of young Somali-Canadian men have been slain in cities across Canada.

Many of the victims’ parents came to Canada to flee Somalia’s bloody civil war two decades ago.

After the recent slayings in Toronto, Hussen believes it’s time for some kind of intervention program for young Somali-Canadians in Toronto. An intervention program for Somali-Canadian youth in junior high has been implemented in Alberta, where several slayings have occurred.

"I think it's a wake-up call for the community and I think, unfortunately, sometimes this is what it takes to bring people together to address these issues,” Hussen said.

With files from CTV Toronto’s Tamara Cherry

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