Jury hears Toronto woman allegedly murdered by ex-boyfriend called police 3 days prior

Just 3 days earlier 23-year-old Daniella Mallia was changeable to decease successful a Toronto underground parking store successful August 2022, her ex-boyfriend Dylan Dowman allegedly sent her substance messages threatening to termination her, prompting her to telephone constabulary to inquire for a restraining order.

That’s what the assemblage was told connected the opening time of the first-degree execution proceedings for Dowman successful a downtown Toronto courtroom Tuesday afternoon.

Assistant Crown lawyer Maureen Pecknold told jurors successful her opening code that Mallia met with a constabulary constable and shared substance messages sent from Dowman that read, “You inactive breathing due to the fact that I accidental so” and “Ain’t nary coming backmost from death. You’re done.”

“You volition spot body-worn camera footage from 3 days earlier she was changeable to death,” Pecknold told the jury. “You volition spot she did not privation to enactment a Black antheral down bars. All she wanted is what she referred to arsenic a restraining order. What we notation to arsenic a bid bond. She conscionable wanted to consciousness safe.”

The Crown said constabulary told Mallia however to consciousness harmless and said Dowman and Mallia were told to halt contacting 1 another.

The assemblage besides heard that grounds volition amusement that lone 3 days aft Mallia called police, Dowman took an Uber from the location wherever helium rented a country to the parkade wherever Mallia was gunned down connected the greeting of Aug. 18, 2022.

As Mallia was walking on a way towards a courtyard astatine 2265 Jane St., jurors heard that a antheral ran up down her, grabbed her and dragged her into the underground parking garage. The antheral took a handgun retired of a backpack and pointed it astatine her arsenic Mallia tried to get away.

“He blocked her way implicit and implicit again, past helium changeable her and continued to shoot. Police recovered six spent casings adjacent the assemblage and erstwhile helium finished shooting, helium concealed the gun, near the garage, walked down the street, got connected a TTC autobus and went to a adjacent mall,” Pecknold said.

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Jurors heard Mallia’s assemblage was recovered a abbreviated clip aboriginal by a nonmigratory of the townhouse analyzable who was walking done the parkade.

The Crown said Dowman and Mallia had been romantically progressive connected and disconnected for respective years and helium was idiosyncratic she was acrophobic of.

“Members of the jury, this is not a analyzable case,” Pecknold said.

She said the Crown volition beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty that Dowman thought astir sidesplitting Mallia for astatine slightest 3 days, planned it and told her however helium was going to bash it.

George Lakatosh, who lived successful the complex, was the archetypal witnesser to testify. He testified that arsenic helium was walking towards his van, helium noticed a greenish container lying connected the ground.

“My eyes started pursuing the way of the container and I spot a assemblage laying straight,” Lakatosh recalled.

Lakatosh testified helium was successful a hurry due to the fact that helium was taking his woman to the infirmary for an assignment truthful helium told a attraction antheral to telephone 911.

“I ne'er seen the assemblage moving astatine all,” Lakatosh said, explaining helium took a mates of photos of the assemblage earlier pulling retired of the parkade “just successful lawsuit idiosyncratic says thing else.” The photos were shown successful court.

Dowman has pleaded not guilty. The proceedings continues.