Toronto police arrest last suspect in fatal Entertainment District shootout

Stephen Brice Pierre was in custody by Monday, closing the final gap in Toronto’s investigation into the pre-dawn Entertainment District shootout that left 18-year-old Dylan Adams dead and turned a chaotic street gunfight into a multi-defendant homicide case.

Toronto police said Pierre, 27, was arrested May 25 by officers with the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force on a Canada-wide warrant. He now faces weapons-related charges that include unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded prohibited firearm and accessory after the fact to discharge a firearm recklessly endangering life.

The arrest capped a case file that began in the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2025, when officers responded at about 4:45 a.m. to reports of shots fired near King Street West and Spadina Avenue. Police say a group of males approached Frandy Noel, 27, of Montreal, gunfire was exchanged, and Noel returned fire while he was struck himself. Adams, who was from Toronto, was hit during the shooting and later pronounced dead.

Investigators have steadily built out the case since then. Noel was arrested the next day and charged with second-degree murder. CityNews Toronto later reported that Adams arrived at a hospital in 31 Division just before 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 25, adding another marker to the minutes after the gunfight spilled across downtown streets.

Police then identified more alleged participants. Zavion Boswell, 22, of Toronto, was charged with manslaughter, robbery with a firearm and firearms possession offences. Wissem Mohamed Rehayem, 30, of Montreal, was also arrested and charged with firearm-related offences and accessory after the fact. Pierre remained the last person still wanted on a Canada-wide warrant until his arrest this week.

Toronto police had already warned that Pierre was believed to have ties to both Toronto and Montreal and should be considered armed and dangerous. In their April 27 update on case 2025-2463831, investigators said the Adams killing was Toronto’s 37th homicide of 2025, placing the case squarely within a year’s worth of homicide work that the service tracks publicly.

With Pierre now in custody, detectives have the full roster of arrests they spent months assembling from the scene in the Entertainment District. What remains is the courtroom test: which role each accused man played in the shooting, and how the violence that killed Dylan Adams will be proven beyond the statements and charges that brought the last suspect in.