One man is in custody and a second is still sought in the murder of a 22-year-old man found slumped behind the wheel of his luxury SUV last week in the city’s west end, a killing that may have been a drug rip-off.Despite all the fuzzy-bunny argle-bargle about the victim being a cement finisher... the cops are now saying this was a drug-ripoff gone bad.
Andre Gladstone Pierre, 20, of Toronto, was taken into custody early today and charged with second-degree murder. He is expected to make an appearance at the Finch courts this afternoon.
One man remains on the loose and it’s believed he may be armed with a handgun.
And... another shocker... no word, yet again, from Mayor Miller's office on which gun club the shooters belonged to.
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RELATED: StatsCan - Tweaking the truth
-- VANCOUVER -- Mr. Castle said another thing the RCMP's figures include, but Statistics Canada's do not, is missing-persons cases in which there is strong evidence a murder has occurred.**********
"If a drug trafficker disappears but his leg is found, that's pretty much a gang homicide, but StatsCan won't score it," Mr. Castle said.
The RCMP's first homicide report, covering the years 1997-2007, was completed last June.
LAST WORD: It's all about "their rights"...
...no... not the victims.
A jury now deciding whether Peter Johnson is the gunman who fatally shot an innocent bystander and wounded another man never knew the accused was once a co-leader of one of Toronto's most notorious gangs.How is it, it's always the guys with the "street names"... who get all the societal coddling?
The 25-year-old man is allegedly the gunman shown on Club Whispers video who fired at a bouncer but missed, killing Jeffrey Lewis.
The jury was never told that Johnson -- nicknamed "P Dawg" -- and his brothers, Michael and Nadel, in 2005 led the Driftwood Crips gang, which terrorized the Jane-Finch area and trafficked in both drugs and guns.
The Johnson brothers were nicknamed "The Three Generals."
What happened to the rights of the people they preyed on?
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