‘I just fired two shots’: Man who once topped Canada’s most wanted list testifies at murder trial

The erstwhile astir wanted fugitive from the BOLO (Be connected the lookout) database of Canada’s apical 25 astir wanted radical admitted astatine his second-degree execution proceedings Wednesday that helium changeable Craig MacDonald extracurricular a Scarborough Boston Pizza edifice connected Oct. 13, 2021, but testified helium ne'er intended to termination him.

Abilaziz Mohamed told the judge-alone proceedings aft a time and nighttime of dense drinking, helium was attacked from down arsenic helium was leaving the pizza edifice wherever helium had gone for a fewer drinks with a person named Daniel.

He said his caput deed the ground, felt idiosyncratic punch his forehead, enactment up his arms to artifact the punches and heard yelling but couldn’t marque retired the words. “I got up existent quick. I was similar ‘what conscionable happened?’ I was confused,” Mohamed testified. He said his person told him that it was the radical from the different barroom whom helium had had an statement with a period before.

Mohamed testified helium past noticed a pistillate yelling astatine him who seemed angry. “She’s telling me, ‘This is what you deserve. This is what you get, you did this successful beforehand of my son’ and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?”‘

Mohamed recalled that a period earlier, helium and Daniel were astatine Danny’s pub successful Scarborough celebrating his day erstwhile got into an statement with a antheral named Craig and a pistillate named Rupi. Mohamed said helium offered to bargain them shots and Craig and Rupi refused.

“Craig said, ‘Why are you spending your wealth similar that?’ and I was like, ‘It’s nary of your concern’.” Mohamed said Rupi got upset and helium recalled them each leaving with her son. “She was saying that I was bothering her family,” Mohamed said. He testified that Rupi went and told the proprietor of Danny’s earlier Mohamed and Rupid were swearing astatine 1 another.

“She said, ‘You are doing this successful beforehand of my son,’ truthful I apologized to him.” Mohamed testified helium didn’t deliberation thing astir the statement aft they left.

Returning to questioning astir the Boston Pizza connected the nighttime of the shooting, Mohamed explained erstwhile helium got up from being punched, helium realized the pistillate yelling astatine him was Rupi.

He said helium noticed his concatenation had breached and went backmost to his car, that his person was driving and enactment the concatenation wrong earlier walking towards the edifice manager who was present successful the parking lot. Mohamed testified Rupi was inactive yelling astatine him and portion his person was urging him to leave, helium didn’t leave.

“She’s inactive yelling. I’m inactive similar engaged with Rupi and she’s telling me, ‘Nobody likes you’.”

When his lawyer Tyler Smith asked Mohamed wherefore helium was inactive engaging with her, Mohamed replied, “Honestly, I wasn’t adjacent reasoning clear. I conscionable wasn’t myself that night.”

He said it’s past helium saw MacDonald moving towards him with his hands successful the air, yelling and recognized him from Danny’s.

“He was moving astatine me, helium was getting closer, I conscionable reached into my pocket, I selected my firearm, I pulled the happening backmost and I conscionable shot. I fired 2 shots. Everything happened truthful fast,” Mohammad said, adding the changeable deed MacDonald successful the thorax earlier helium took a fewer steps backward and heard Daniel yelling ‘let’s go.'”

Mohamed said the 2 jumped into the car and left. “I was conscionable shocked. What conscionable happened? I was driving away. I was calming down and I conscionable realized thing atrocious happened.” Mohamed said helium passed retired successful the conveyance and woke up the adjacent greeting astatine 6:30 a.m. with Daniel inactive successful the car. He said helium inactive had the firearm which helium had bought the period earlier for protection.

Mohamed testified successful September 2021, helium was robbed successful the parking batch extracurricular Danny’s Pub by 2 men carrying guns who took his money, his cellphone and the concatenation disconnected his neck. He said helium called a person named Desmond and told him the concern and a fewer hours later, Desmond said helium had thing and to travel conscionable him. Mohamed testified helium bought a tiny 32 -calibre metallic handgun $2,000. Mohamed testified aft the robbery, helium didn’t spell retired overmuch due to the fact that helium was scared.

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On the nighttime of the shooting astatine Boston Pizza, helium said helium was carrying the weapon successful the close pouch of the bomber overgarment helium was wearing. When asked what helium did with the weapon aft the shooting, Mohamed explained helium called a person named Yogi and asked him to travel prime him up truthful helium could “do something”. He said Yogi drove him to the country of Birchmount and Finch Avenue, wherever helium dropped the firearm wrapped successful a sweater and successful a container into a garbage bin.

Mohamed said helium ne'er surrendered to police. It wasn’t until April 2022 erstwhile helium was successful infirmary for 9 days wherever helium was being treated for diabetes that helium got arrested. As Global News reported exclusively astatine the time, Mohamed was recognized successful an Ajax infirmary aft his representation was wide circulated by the media that time aft being named Canada’s astir wanted fugitive by the BOLO program.

During cross-examination, adjunct Crown lawyer Sean Hickey questioned wherefore Mohamed did not telephone constabulary and study the robbery extracurricular Danny’s, aft which helium testified that helium decided to limb himself with a gun. Hickey besides questioned Mohamed connected however helium could spend to enactment his woman and her 3 kids and ain 2 cars.

Mohamed had earlier testified helium wasn’t moving and was considering going backmost to school. He said helium walk a batch of clip betting connected sports. Mohamed explained “I utilized to merchantability drugs” and told Hickey it was his archetypal gun. Mohamed admitted helium had nary weapon licence and helium had a tribunal bid banning him from having a gun.

“I’m going to suggest to you, you were successful nary mode impaired by the depletion of intoxicant astatine the time,” said Hickey. “That’s not true,” Mohammed replied.

Hickey besides suggested that Mohamed was not carrying the weapon with him astatine the clip helium got into the archetypal combat with MacDonald but erstwhile Mohamed tossed his concatenation successful the car, helium grabbed his weapon which was wrong the conveyance earlier walking backmost towards the Boston Pizza. Mohamed denied it.

Hickey said arsenic Mohamed and MacDonald were having it out, screaming astatine 1 another, and MacDonald’s woman was shouting astatine him, Mohamed took the weapon retired of his pocket, pointed it astatine MacDonald, racked it and pulled the trigger.

“Not erstwhile but twice, straight astatine him,” said Hickey. Mohamed snapped back, “Not true.”

Hickey besides suggested that Mohamed had nary volition of calling constabulary that night, adjacent though helium had been assaulted. Mohamed agreed, explaining, “I was going to spell archer the manager astir what happened truthful helium could telephone police. I had nary volition of shooting him, I conscionable reacted.”

The proceedings continues.