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Slain conservationist likely targeted, police say
Surveillance video shows man sought by police
Last Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2007 | 1:54 PM ET
CBC News
A Toronto man who donated millions of dollars to wildlife conservation and
environmental causes was likely targeted by the assailant who shot him to
death, police said Sunday.

Glen Davis, 66, was shot in the torso on Friday afternoon. He was found near
his car in the underground garage of a building housing World Wildlife Fund
Canada offices in Toronto's north end.

This security camera image and three others were released by police on
Sunday. They said the man was a 'person of interest' in the case and was
seen leaving the parking lot around the time of the shooting.
(Toronto Police Service) A passerby called for help and Davis was taken to
hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

"It appears that he was deliberately selected in this case: there were a
number of people in that underground parking lot," homicide Det. Wayne
Fowler said at a news conference Sunday morning.

Fowler said no wallet was found on Davis, but it wasn't clear that he was
shot in the course of a robbery.

"Obviously there was a reason Mr. Davis was selected," Fowler added, without
speculating on a motive.

Davis, who was an avid supporter of both WWF Canada and the Sierra Club of
Canada, had just finished lunch with someone from the WWF when he was shot,
police said.

Davis and his family had made a $2 million gift to the WWF in 2000, the
Toronto Star reported.

Police release photos of man seen in lot
Also on Sunday, police released images captured on surveillance video of a
man who was seen leaving the parking lot around the time of the shooting.

They show a man wearing a dark jacket, a blue shirt or sweater and dark
pants. He is carrying a dark-coloured knapsack.

Police are looking for the man described to be in his mid-to-late 20s as a
"person of interest" in the case.

Investigators have also reopened the books on a previous assault on Davis,
but they wouldn't disclose specifics until the case file can be examined to
see if the two incidents are linked, Fowler said.

News reports of the earlier assault said he was beaten with a baseball bat,
but no one was arrested in that case, Fowler said.

A profile of Davis in the 2005 annual report from the Sierra Club of Canada
said, "the environmental community in Canada has never had a better friend
and supporter."

Davis was involved in a holdings company, but refused to provide any further
details on the victim's background or family, whom Fowler described as being
"very devastated."

In Peter C. Newman's 1988 book, Titans: How The New Canadian Establishment
Seized Power, Davis is identified as the son of the late Nelson Davis, a
"rich and secretive Toronto conglomerateur" whose Toronto house had five
unlisted phone numbers.

"If Nelson Davis had one passion besides his never-ending search for
perfection, it was his yearning for anonymity," Newman wrote.

"He was a keeper of distances and liked it that way."

On Sunday, police remained at the crime scene and plan to process evidence
Monday, Fowler said.

Police hope to identify several people by Tuesday who may be employees of a
company at the building where the crime occurred, Fowler said.

With files from the Canadian Press