Alderwood accused double killer Joseph Ayala is still on the run from the law.
Police are baffled as they search parks, along rivers and lake front areas for Joseph Ayala who has been on the lam for the brutal slaying of two women in Alderwood.
Officers from the force’s Mounted Unit and riding all-wheel drive vehicles have been scouring the banks of Etobicoke Creek including ditches and ravines without luck.
Residents and some officers are wondering if Ayala may turn up dead since there has been no sightings.
Neighbours said he has lived in the area for most of his life and is familiar with the geography or has sought refuge in a backyard shed or other shelter.
Ayala, 33, is wanted for second-degree murder in the deaths of an 82-year-old woman and a 60-year-old woman, who were found in a Sheldon and Silvercrest Avenues home on August 23.
Police fear the accused by turn up dead since there has been no sightings.
Offcers are urging Ayala to turn himself with a lawyer as they continue with their search.
Police have received “numerous tips and have followed up on them” without luck.
Ayala is described as five-foot-eleven with a shaved head. He is known to wear a cowboy hat, black cowboy boots and a jacket with tassels on the sleeves.
He is considered dangerous and shouldn’t be approached by the public, police said.
Ayala had been involved with the police before, said a person familiar with the family.
The search is on for clues and to find the killer at large in the community.
The victims according to neighbours were Ayala’s grandmother, 82-year-old Colleen Fraser, and his 60-year-old mother Sherry Fraser. He had lived with the two women and had not worked for several years.
Flowers lay outside an Etobicoke home where the women were killed.
Family members had called police in the past when Ayala refused to take his medication for his schizophrenia, one person said, adding that he had threatened to hurt people in the past but never directed those threats toward his grandmother or mother.