Six months after obtaining his Conditional release for having killed a teenage girl in Toronto with a lost bullet, a murderer would have already reoffended, this time by murdering a man in a Park in Montreal.
Tuesday, shortly after midnight, Abdeck Ibrahim was shot down in the Peace Park, located on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, in downtown Montreal. The death of the 33 -year -old victim, known to the police, was found on the scene.
A command post was erected at the scene of the murder on Tuesday.
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Jeremiah Valentine, 43, was accused Thursday morning of first degree murder. Dressed in a black t-shirt, he presented himself as a videoconferencing at his audience at the Montreal courthouse.
Several relatives of the victim, visibly shaken, wanted to attend the appearance.
Other murder
Valentine is in her first visit to the court in Quebec. But it is not the same in Ontario: he was found guilty of murder not premeditated by the Queen City in 2009.
Photo Le Journal de Montréal
While she stores the after-Noël sales a few steps from the Eaton Center, in downtown Toronto in 2005, Jane Creba, 15, had been fatally suffering from a lost bullet.
Two rival gangs had then exchanged shots on one of the largest arteries in Toronto, particularly busy during this time of the year. Six other people were also injured.
Popular indignation
This shooting caused the popular and forced indignation, politicians to react about armed violence during the 2006 federal electoral campaign, won by the conservatives of Stephen Harper.
“It’s a shame, but it looks like it took an innocent little victim to wake them up,” said at the time Journal The expert in organized crime Guy Ouellette, who himself became a deputy a few years later.
In all, the police arrested six men and two teenagers in connection with this tragedy. Only half of them were finally found guilty after years of legal proceedings.
Valentine would most likely have been the one who inevitably reached the young victim, said the crown during his guilt. He then received life prison without possibility of parole before 12 years.
Total conditional release
The murderer finally obtained his total parole last January, even if his risk of recurrence was between moderate and high.
Since he was able to get out of the walls of the penitentiary, Valentine has demonstrated “good management of her emotions [et] A desire to lead a prosocial life, ”it can be read in the most recent decision of the Conditional Liberations Commission in Canada.
She then concluded that Valentine continued to “make observable and measurable changes and thus attenuated her risk of recurrence”.
The accused remains detained until his return to court next September.
With Michaël Nguyen
