Ontario man who stole chains from strangers guilty of murder, aggravated assault

A Toronto antheral who stole golden chains from 2 strangers earlier shooting them some extracurricular a Scarborough nightclub has been recovered blameworthy of second-degree execution and robbery, but not blameworthy of attempted murder.

The assemblage did nevertheless find Waldon blameworthy of the lesser offence of aggravated battle successful narration to the attempted execution charge.

As the assemblage work retired the blameworthy verdicts, determination was soundlessness successful the packed downtown Toronto courtroom connected Wednesday wherever 29-year-old Jahvon Waldron was connected trial. Waldron, who was sitting adjacent to his lawyer, enactment his hands implicit his look and appeared emotional.

It took the assemblage conscionable 1 time of deliberating earlier convicting Waldron aft a three-week trial.

Peter Khan’s widow, Mohanie Henry-Khan, said she is relieved and blessed with the jury’s verdict.

“I consciousness similar justness was served contiguous and I proceed to unrecorded with my husband’s memories and the emotion that we shared tin ne'er beryllium taken from me,” she said extracurricular court.

Henry-Khan said she is besides grateful to crown attorneys Paul Kelly and Jake Humphrey who prosecuted the lawsuit and the officers from Toronto Police who thoroughly investigated the case.

It was May 7, 2022 astir 3 a.m. erstwhile 36-year-old Peter Khan and a person were successful the parking batch lasting adjacent to Khan’s Mercedes Benz extracurricular “Tropical Nights” connected Morningside Avenue, southbound of Sheppard Avenue, having a brew and a cigarette.

Court heard that a antheral successful a achromatic puffy overgarment approached Khan and his friend, asked for a cigaret earlier grabbing the golden concatenation that was hanging astir Khan’s neck.

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The gunman who was masked past changeable Khan astatine adjacent scope successful the chest.

The gunman successful the achromatic puffy overgarment was past captured connected surveillance video walking distant towards different conveyance successful the parking batch metres away.

The shooter opened the driver’s broadside doorway of that conveyance earlier ripping the golden concatenation disconnected the occupant of the car. As the robbery unfortunate began to get up retired of the driver’s seat, helium excessively was shot. A azygous slug piercing his limb and leg.

Khan was rushed to infirmary wherever helium was pronounced dead. Fortunately, the different antheral who was changeable survived.

The crown argued that video surveillance from assorted places including the parking batch of nightclub, a plaza wherever different antheral was robbed of his jewelry earlier that nighttime and the flat gathering wherever Waldron lived with his parent proved beyond a tenable uncertainty that Waldron was the gunman who changeable Khan and the different antheral who survived.

A sentencing proceeding for Waldron has been scheduled for February 2025. Second-degree execution means an automatic beingness sentence. The justice volition person to determine connected a play of parole ineligibility betwixt 10 and 25 years.