Road death linked to triple homicide

Police have identified the man who died on the Don Valley Parkway after falling from Leaside Bridge on Saturday as 50-year-old Yusuf Osman Abdille, the husband and father of the three homicide victims found in a Thorncliffe Park apartment the same day.

Abdille was struck by a Toyota Prius at about 1 p.m. Nov. 29. Police say his involvement in the triple homicide is still being investigated, though unconfirmed reports identified it as a triple murder-suicide.

Police discovered the bodies of 43-year-old Zahra Mohamoud Abdille and sons Faris Abdille, 13, and Zain Abdille, 8, in a third-floor apartment at 85 Thorncliffe Park Dr. four hours after Yusuf Osman Abdille died.

Causes of death have not been released, though autopsies were performed on Monday.

A strong police and media presence was still in place Monday afternoon at the building where the homicide victims were found.

Mohamoud Abdille and her two sons are Toronto’s 51st, 52nd and 53rd homicides of the year.

It would be the first triple homicide in Toronto since July 2013. Alexander Khalilov, then 22, was arrested following a standoff with police near his Etobicoke home and charged with the murders of his mother, aunt and uncle.

Prior to that, Toronto had not recorded a triple homicide since November 2008, when a man was alleged to have killed his wife and two adult children before taking his own life.