He dressed like a lawyer, talked like a lawyer and worked as a lawyer, but in reality, 34-year-old Inayat Kassam was a smooth-talking fraudster with a law degree that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.
The official-looking degrees were enough to impress Dennis Yang, who hired him to manage new business for his Toronto law office.
But enough about fraud, let's get to today's thuggery...
Police received a call about the sound of gunshots at about 1:24 a.m. near Gerrard Street East and River Street in Regent Park. When officers from 51 Division arrived, they found two men. One was pronounced at the scene and one was taken to hospital. The second man is expected to survive.
The identity of the city’s 40th murder victim of the year was not immediately released because police are still in the process of notifying his next-of-kin
