Homicide

On May 29 a shooter walked into the Chicken Land restaurant in Mississauga.  When the shooting stopped five people were shot, one fatally. The Peel Regional Police Homicide squad is handling the file. They have named three suspects: Anand Nath, Naqash Abbasi, and Suliman Raza (pictured). Two of the suspects were subsequently arrested and charged, but Nath tried to flee, boarding a flight to Montreal. He ultimately turned himself in and was flown back to Mississauga. Peel Police have since charged him with first degree murder as well.  Now you’d almost think that this sort of shooting attack would attract a lot of media attention. But it didn’t. Unless you’re a voracious news consumer, it’s likely you never heard of any of this.  I scoured the internet to find information about this incident but had precious little success.Tom Quiggan has been following this story on his excellent podcast The Quiggan Report. But where’s the mainstream media? The shooting victims were, all but one, members of the same family which operated the restaurant. Naim Aki, 25, was killed in the shooting rampage. His dad, 56, Jihad, mom Rania, 44 and brother Daniel, were also shot but not fatally. A shot was fired at the 13-year-old sister Sandra, but fortunately missed.  A 58-year-old male employee of the restaurant was also shot.  The victims were members of the Lebanese Druze community while the suspects are Sunni Muslims.  It looks like the shooting was targeting the family and appears to have been a bid to eradicate them. Why? Well,...

A high-profile Lower Mainland gangster was shot to death early Wednesday inside his parents’ South Surrey home. Gary Kang, 24, was gunned down about 5 a.m. at the home in the 16000-block of 30th Avenue in the Morgan Creek area of Surrey. (The Province)

When Amir Abdulrahman and his 17-year-old friend were pulled over by police on New Years Eve, there was already a warrant out for the older teen's arrest. Abdulrahman, 19, was wanted for assault when Sgt. Andrew Harnett initiated a traffic stop in the city's northeast. The vehicle he stopped struck and dragged him, killing him. (CBC)

From the slaying of a popular Downtown Eastside resident on New Year’s Day 2020 to the disturbing, execution-style shooting of a Burnaby boy this week, the year has been busy for homicide investigators across the Lower Mainland. (The Province)

About a week before Christmas, an 82-year-old Hispanic man sickened with the coronavirus leaned on his Catholic faith and began to pray in his Southern California hospital room. (Washington Post)

The circumstances were all too familiar: A shooting apparently targeting the driver of a car; a burning vehicle possibly linked to the killers found soon afterwards in a nearby city. Several recent murders associated with the Lower Mainland gang conflict have been eerily similar. (Vancouver Sun)

A Surrey gangster now charged in a 2019 murder was arrested Monday after he showed up at the scene of a fatal shooting that happened the night before. Munroop Hayer, 27, appeared in Surrey Provincial Court Wednesday on one count of first-degree murder in the slaying last Remembrance Day of Andrew James Baldwin. Hayer’s next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 16. (Vancouver Sun)

Argentine justice officials on Sunday seized medical files from the doctor of Diego Maradona as part of their investigation into the recent death of the soccer star. Maradona died at age 60 on Wednesday after a heart attack. (National Post)

Toronto Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a man suspected of trying to kill one of their officers. Cops say that on Nov. 21, around 11:22 p.m., an officer on patrol in the west end heard the sound of gunshots and spotted a car fleeing the scene at a high rate of speed. The officer gave chase and signaled the driver to stop. (Toronto Sun)

Toronto police said on Wednesday they had identified a person of interest in the high-profile murders three years ago of a Canadian pharmaceutical billionaire couple but had not made an arrest. (National Post)