Police have identified the victim of Monday's homicide outside a Halifax mall as 16-year-old Ahmad Maher Al Marrach.

Officers were called to the scene at a parking lot next to the Halifax Shopping Centre just after 5 p.m. on Monday. The injured teen was taken to hospital, where he died.

Halifax Regional Police said Tuesday they have released two youths who were arrested on a Halifax Transit bus in the area of North Street about 20 minutes after the initial call. Neither has been charged in the ca…