Police eye same suspect for murders

Investigators believe the person responsible for slaying a member of a notorious Ontario crime family last year was also behind the murder of a woman north of Toronto two months earlier, police said at a news conference on Tuesday.

Officers with the Hamilton and York region police said they believe the man who fatally shot Angelo Musitano in Hamilton last May also shot 28- year- old Mila Barberi and her boyfriend in an industrial complex in Vaughan, Ont., in March.

Musitano, 39, was fatally shot while sitting in his pickup truck in the driveway of his Hamilton home in May.

The two crimes were similar, police said.

Barberi was also in her car when she was fatally shot. She was picking up her boyfriend from work.

She was killed in the shooting, but her boyfriend — who hasn’t been publicly identified by police — was shot in the arm and survived the attack.

Surveillance footage appears to show the same gunman at both crimes, and investigators have linked the same black Honda Civic Coupe to the sites of both shootings, said Hamilton’s Det.- Sgt. Peter Thom.

Officers described the suspected gunman as a white man with a stocky or athletic build.

The shooter did not act alone, they said, and they’re also looking for a getaway driver who they believe was present at Barberi’s killing.