A man has been charged with first-degree murder in death of a woman Toronto Police have described as an "extremely vulnerable resident of our city".
Acquaintances found Sylvia Consuelo dead in her apartment in a Kendleton Dr highrise, near Kipling Ave and Albion Rd early on January 30.
At a news conference later that week Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga revealed that Consuelo had been "brutally" sexually assaulted, beaten and suffocated to death in her small apartment.
Police shared surveillance video of a man with his face obscured by a toque and scarf moving through the halls of Consuelo's building an hour before her death.
On Thursday police charged Najib Amin with first-degree murder.
Idsinga has described Consuelo as a quiet, petite woman who struggled with an addiction to narcotics and with her mental health and turned to prostitution to fund her addiction. She was the mother to three young children who were not in her care at the time of her death.
Det. David Dickinson tells NEWSTALK 1010 Amin and Consuelo knew each other from the area and that Consuelo's vulnerability played a role in her death.