Hamzeh Serhan, 20, of Ottawa was sipping on a Slushie in the outdoor courtyard between Ottawa Community Housing units on Caldwell Avenue when he was swarmed by a group of armed youths and gunned down in broad daylight Wednesday.The usually extremely vocal Black Lives Matter Ottawa was apparently unavailable for comment.
After he was shot at close range, the victim stood up and turned as if to flee when he was shot in the back another four times. Witnesses, including one eyewitness who said he stood within 20 feet of the shooting, described the suspects as a group of about six black youths, who scattered on foot once the fatal shots were fired.
He said the victim was a man of Middle Eastern descent in his early 20s known to live in the neighbourhood.
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RELATED: In other Ottawa murder news
Kirvens Lamarre, 22, appeared by video link in an Ottawa courtroom Saturday morning — his first appearance on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 24-year-old Devon Labelle. Labelle, 24, known as “D-Loc,” was found stabbed and bleeding on a busy corner on Montreal Road on the afternoon of April 27.**********
RELATED2: A growing culture of violence
Mayor John Tory actually presented Aubrey “Drake” Graham with a key to the city in February 2016 — about six months after two people were shot to death during the rapper’s OVO Fest after-party at Muzik nightclub, another unsolved crime the rapper has stayed silent on despite Crime Stoppers urging him to ask witnesses to come forward.Just keepin' it real, huh Drake?
“Just know man like Fif, he’s a sickaz/ You get tanned, he don’t miss tings,” Drake rapped on the record.Sorry, Aubrey... the evidence suggests otherwise.
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LAST WORD: With one week left to go...
...in September, Toronto continues to stack bodies...
