Three assailants await sentencing in the Chicken Land shooting. By John Goddard It was a murder trial like no other. The crime-scene photos were X-rated, the text messages between suspects obscene, and the police work so superb that nearly every move of the defendants was accounted for. In the end, the jury found all three […]

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Details of an attempted mass murder in Canada might never be made public. By John Goddard, April 2, 2024 The crime has no precedent in Canada but might never go to trial. A gunman burst into a Mississauga, Ontario takeout restaurant called Chicken Land almost three years ago to slaughter an entire family at their […]

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At trial, Ansari said he knew nothing about what was going on and couldn’t be blamed for his tenant’s activities. Justice Hugh McConnell, however, called Ansari’s testimony by turns contradictory, “bizarre in the extreme,” “divorced from the truth” and “a lie.”

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The Danforth Shootings connection to the case, however peripheral, fills in blanks about the crimes that Toronto police and the news media have always shown reluctance to examine closely.

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The drugs alone included 42 kilograms of the deadly drug-booster carfentanil mixed with caffeine, the biggest ever Canadian carfentanil bust and said to be worth up to $17 million on the street. The drug is a relatively new substance, said to be 40 times more toxic than the powerful opioid fentanyl. Of the 33 guns found, all were loaded, all had over-capacity magazines, and all except one were listed either as restricted or prohibited in Canada.

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Many details of that Sunday night two years ago, on July 22, were never made public. Police never disclosed that Fallon sustained 13 bullets, most of them fired point-blank. News reporters never put together that eight high-school friends stood at the parkette, seven girls and one guy, and that half of them were shot.

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