Police Charged A Man With Murder Over Three Crossbow Deaths In Toronto

    Brett Ryan, 35, faces three first-degree murder charges.

    A Toronto man faces three first-degree murder charges over the deaths of three people who were shot with a crossbow.

    Police responded to a call Thursday afternoon about a "stabbing" in Scarborough, in the city's east end.

    News helicopter footage from CP24 showed what appeared to be blood stains in the backyard of a home cordoned off by investigators.

    In an even stranger twist, Toronto police later linked the crossbow deaths to a suspicious package found about 20 kilometres away, in downtown Toronto.

    This is not Ryan's first brush with the law. He was convicted in 2009 for more than a dozen bank robberies in the Greater Toronto Area as the "fake beard bandit."