Trial begins for Ontario man accused of stealing gold chain, shooting victim

Peter Khan and his woman were astatine Tropica Nights, a nine connected Morningside Avenue, adjacent Sheppard, connected May 7, 2022, erstwhile Khan and a person stepped extracurricular to portion 1 of the beers successful the trunk of his car and to fume a cigarette.

On the opening time of the second-degree execution proceedings for Jahvon Waldron, tribunal heard an enactment successful the parking batch betwixt 36-year-old Khan and a antheral the Crown alleges to beryllium Waldron turned deadly aft Khan was robbed of the golden concatenation helium was wearing.

Assistant Crown lawyer Paul Kelly told jurors successful his opening code that a Black antheral approached Khan and his person astir 3 a.m., wearing, among different covering items, airy jeans, achromatic shoes and a black, puffy jacket. The antheral asked for a cigarette.

“He past proceeded to drawback astatine and rip a agelong golden concatenation from the cervix of Mr. Khan. Immediately aft having done so, helium changeable Mr. Khan successful the torso,” Kelly told the jury.

The shooter past walked towards different conveyance successful the parking lot, metres distant from Khan’s Mercedes wherever a antheral named Dante Roopchand was sitting successful the driver’s seat.

Roopchand had besides earlier been wrong “Tropical Nights” and was waiting for a friend. Kelly said Roopchand wasn’t paying attraction to what was happening successful the vicinity of his car arsenic the shooter approached due to the fact that helium was looking astatine his phone.

“The shooter proceeded to unfastened the driver’s broadside beforehand doorway of Mr. Roopchand’s car … The shooter past reached successful and ripped disconnected the golden concatenation Mr. Roopchand was wearing astir his neck,” said Kelly.

As Roopchand began to get up and retired of the driver’s seat, the antheral successful the achromatic puffy overgarment changeable Roopchand arsenic well. The azygous slug pierced his limb and leg.

Both shootings were caught connected CCTV video from Tropical Nights.

Kelly told jurors that the shooter was seen leaving and arriving successful a achromatic Nissan Sentra with distinctive characteristics including a missing beforehand licence sheet and, astir notably, a achromatic driver’s broadside rear presumption mirror.

Roopchand and Khan were some rushed to hospital. Roopchand was treated and survived but Khan was not truthful lucky. He was pronounced dormant successful infirmary from a gunshot coiled to the chest.

The Crown’s archetypal witnesser was a antheral who was robbed astatine gunpoint of his jewelry astatine astir 1:15 a.m. connected May 7, 2022, extracurricular a Domino’s Pizza astatine 1880 Kennedy Rd. — little than 2 hours anterior to the shootings extracurricular Tropical Nights.

The 57-year-old operation idiosyncratic said helium was extracurricular the pizza waiting for an Uber with his woman aft picking up his pizza erstwhile helium was approached from behind. “I felt similar idiosyncratic tug connected the backmost of my chain,” said the witness.

He said abruptly a antheral walked successful beforehand of him and confronted him, telling him to “take it off”. When helium resisted, the antheral yanked the concatenation until it broke, the pendant from the concatenation falling to the ground.

“He enactment it successful his near pocket. He had a weapon successful his close hand,” said the robbery victim. He testified the antheral asked for his rings and said, “I curse to God I volition termination you,” earlier pushing the weapon to his stomach.

“He pumped the mag conscionable truthful I could spot determination was ammunition successful the magazine. After that, the rings came off,” said the witnesser who said helium besides handed implicit his bracelet. All were 10-karat gold. He said the equipped thief walked backwards to marque definite helium wasn’t going to travel him earlier walking off. The robbery unfortunate said helium past called the police.

When asked by Kelly however the fishy looked, the witnesser described him arsenic a Black antheral with a lighter complexion than his, wearing a shiny achromatic wintertime overgarment with airy bluish jeans, with a mean physique and astir 27-28 years old. But said his hoodie was up and could lone spot level maize rows on the broadside of his face. He besides said the fishy had a akin Caribbean accent to his.

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Surveillance video of the robbery was shown successful court. During the interaction, a fishy wearing a disguise tin beryllium seen holding a weapon successful his close manus earlier the witnesser hands implicit the jewelry. The fishy turns astir and walks off.

Kelly told the assemblage that CCTV video from an adjacent plaza volition beryllium shown instantly earlier and aft the robbery extracurricular Domino’s. He said helium would amusement it is accordant with the shootings extracurricular Tropical Nights wherever you tin spot a antheral successful airy pants with a puffy overgarment getting into a achromatic Nissan and driving away. The Nissan again has a missing sheet and astir notably a black-coloured rear-view mirror, the aforesaid 1 the Crown volition taxable was seen little than 2 hours aboriginal extracurricular Tropical Nights.

The Crown told jurors that that a bulletin to officers astir the shootings extracurricular Tropical Nights and the robbery astatine the Domino’s including a statement of the fishy conveyance and the assailant. On May 8th, an serviceman observed a White Nissan with distinctive markings successful the aforesaid plaza wherever the robbery had taken spot extracurricular of the Domino’s.

The serviceman besides noticed a antheral wearing a achromatic puffy coat. The antheral changed but later, aft a little ft pursuit successful which the fishy jumped done backmost yards, Jahvon Waldron was arrested. The K9 portion was called successful to retrace his steps and recovered a cardinal fob belonging to a Nissan centrifugal vehicle.

The keys were seized and yet different serviceman returned to the Nissan that remained parked successful the Domino’s plaza from which the antheral fled. When the serviceman pressed the cardinal fob, the lights for the conveyance turned on. They were the keys to that car — the aforesaid car that the Crown volition taxable was utilized successful the shootings. That aforesaid car, a White Nissan Altima, had been registered to Jahvon Waldron’s member who had been deceased for immoderate time.

Kelly told the assemblage they volition spot CCTV video from Waldron’s mother’s flat gathering connected Rowena Drive that volition seizure a antheral wearing assorted incarnations of apparel that the Crown volition taxable is accordant with apparel worn by the shooter astatine Tropical Nights and with the antheral seen successful the robbery extracurricular the Domino’s. They volition besides spot telephone records allegedly linked Waldron to the times and locations of the shootings and robberies.

Waldron has pleaded not guilty. The proceedings continues.