Toronto man arrested for 2022 murder of Ding Ping Wang after public tips

Justin Longshaw, 39, has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 shooting death of Ding Ping Wang in a Toronto parking lot.

Toronto man charged with first-degree murder two years after parking lot killing

Justin Longshaw, 39, was arrested Monday on a first-degree murder charge connected to the November 2022 fatal shooting of Ding Ping Wang in a Toronto industrial plaza, Global News Crime reports.

Wang, 31, was sitting in his vehicle in a parking lot near Midland Avenue and Passmore Avenue when someone approached and shot him. He died at the scene. Police described Wang as a husband, father, and owner of a kitchen cabinet business who regularly visited the plaza for work. Investigators do not believe the killing was random, though no motive has been established.

The arrest came roughly one month after Toronto police intensified their public appeal. On July 31, investigators released surveillance footage from the night of the shooting, a re-enactment video showing the suspect using his left hand, and a digital composite sketch. Two weeks later, tips from the public led to a breakthrough: police announced they were also investigating the same suspect in connection with an attempted murder at the same plaza in March 2023. They said the man sought in Wang's killing went by the name "Jay."

Global News Crime has learned that Longshaw was already in custody when he was arrested Monday — held at a correctional facility awaiting trial on a careless use of a firearm charge laid on Dec. 24, 2023. He has been in custody since that date.

Court records obtained by Global News show Longshaw carries a lengthy criminal record and is subject to a lifetime weapons ban. In 2019, he was sentenced to 60 days in prison — after receiving credit for four years of pre-sentence custody — for a 2016 incident outside the Cabana Pool Bar in Toronto. Following his ejection from the club, Longshaw returned to the parking lot with what appeared to be a firearm and threatened security staff, pointing the weapon at them. When officers arrived, he gave a false identity.

A judge found Longshaw guilty of multiple offences, including two counts of uttering death threats, possessing a dangerous weapon, using an imitation firearm while threatening death, obstructing justice, and failing to comply with probation. He was also designated a dangerous offender and placed on a seven-year probation order.

Investigators say his connection to the 2023 attempted murder at the same plaza remains under active investigation.

— with files from Global News' Prisha Dev

Source: Global News Crime