There’s Shamso Mohamoud, whose 18-year-old son was shot in the head near a Yorkdale mall housing complex in 2008. There’s Ayan Ali Abddow, whose 17-year-old son was fatally stabbed outside an Etobicoke apartment in 2016.Those horrible, homicidal Canadians, yessirree bob.
There’s Shamso Elmi, whose 24-year-old son was killed in 2015 in Vancouver.
Every woman here has been touched by the violence they say is crippling their community. The mothers say their Canadian-born Somali youth face disproportionate gun and gang violence.
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RELATED: "Then Ali broached the race factor..."
Yup, Ali... it would have been different. If it was a "white Canadian" who'd been murdered... his buddies would have testified and put the murderer away.
There wouldn't have been any of this "code of the street" horseshit.
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH: Somali, Somali...
...that sounds so familiar...
A jury found Abdulahi Hasan Sharif guilty Friday on all charges, including five counts of attempted murder, after a three-week trial that was in part defined by what wasn’t before the jury.