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Toronto's 49th murder victim of 2008 was shot and thrown from a moving Lexus onto Canada's busiest highway.

Inasmuch as the absolute order of events has not been determined, neither has the precise cause of death.

While it is a certainty that the victim enjoyed an unspecified number of bullet wounds, the more immediate cause of his demise may well have been a jarring eighty-miles-per-hour conk on the noggin.

The matter is not clear.

As such, Toronto's Lord Mayor David Miller, obviously inspired, set aside his usual call for a handgun ban in favour of "an all-out ban on carrying silver-plated pistols in champagne-coloured Lexuses with dem big ol' after-market rims".

Police caution that the killing may not be gang-related.

No gold teeth were recovered at the scene.