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The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
yep, probably gonna be buying booths at Rebel and Cabana this summer
*check your pm breh *
Jury finds Kamal Hassan not guilty of downtown double murder. He testified another man was the real killer
By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
Wed., March 13, 2019
- it was Kwasi Skene-Peters, 21, who shot Mohamed Dirie and Abdiweli Abdullahi, both 26, around 7 a.m. on June 28, 2015. Skene-Peters died weeks later in a shootout with police trying to arrest him for the double murder.
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A still from elevator surveillance video, left, shows Kamal Hassan re-enacting a double murder committed less than an hour earlier in downtown Toronto. Hassan testified he was acting out the killings to convince the real killer, Kwasi Skene-Peters, seen right in a police handout photo, he would not tell anyone about the killings. (ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT EXHIBIT, TORONTO POLICE SERVICE)
Jurors deliberated for a day and a half before returning to court early Wednesday afternoon to announce they had found the 26-year-old not guilty of first- or second-degree murder.
After hearing the verdict, Hassan broke out into a wide smile while his mother, Jackie Kenadeed, jumped up and let out a joyous scream.
Superior Court Justice Michael Brown asked prosecutors if there was any reason to keep Hassan detained and, hearing there was none, told Hassan he was a free man after spending nearly four years in pretrial custody.
“I’m just shocked, I’m shell-shocked,” Hassan said after leaving the prisoner’s box and into the embrace of his mother and lawyers, Adele Monaco and Ashley Dresser. He declined to say anything further.
“We are beyond elated,” said Monaco, adding she believed her client “from the word go.”
“Justice was served, justice was done, and the jury realized it and believed Mr. Hassan and gave him his freedom after four years.”
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Hassan testified he was present at the short-term rental unit at 36 Lisgar St., near King St. W. and Dufferin St., when Skene-Peters killed the two men and then stole Dirie’s gold chain and watch.
A “nightmarish” situation unfolded, Hassan told the jury, when he fled the building followed closely behind by Skene-Peters, whom he knew from his upbringing in the Jane St and Driftwood Ave. area.
Hassan testified he was in “survival mode” following the murder and did everything Skene-Peters asked — including wiping down the car for fingerprints and blood — to convince him he was OK with what happened and that he wasn’t a rat.
“I wanted him to feel comfortable,” he told the jury, adding that was the reason an elevator surveillance camera captured him smiling, laughing and re-enacting the killings with Skene-Peters.
During his closing address last week, Crown attorney Dave Mitchell told the jury Hassan’s testimony was “pure nonsense” and he was “hoping and praying that you believe this acting story so that he can walk away from a double murder.”
Mitchell also summarized for jurors the things that “point against planned and deliberate murder,” such as the fact there was no motive, nor evidence Hassan knew Skene-Peters would be at the condo. As well, why would Hassan bring witnesses — three girls — to a murder scene? There was also no evidence of any ill feeling between Hassan and either deceased, Mitchell acknowledged.
“True. We don’t believe that Kamal Hassan came up with the plan ... it is our position Kwasi Skene-Peters came up with the plan and wanted them dead for unknown reasons, and that he got Mr. Hassan to help him,” Mitchell said.
The jury disagreed.
Betsy Powell is a Toronto-based reporter covering crime and courts. Follow her on Twitter: @powellbetsy
dont know how to feel about this one.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Adele Monaco. I'll make of note of her. 
MVike28
right around the ACC
fukk that nikka rot in piss.dont know how to feel about this one.
i believe the somali breh
Who?Adele Monaco. I'll make of note of her.
I used to peep in from time to time when D***** was coordinator, but I essentially stuck to myself lol I was the shy awkward girl.Carleton
REC Hall fukkery
Makes me wonder who you are tho
dont know how to feel about this one.
If he’s smart he’ll move somewhere far away and be on the straight and narrow
fukk that nikka rot in piss.
i believe the somali breh
Wassi was definitely blamming but i think the Somali cat was blamming too.
but fukk it, id guess id do the same shiet, blame it on the dead nikka
but at the end of the day this means we have another reckless Somali shooter back on the streets
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Ongoing Mob War, Ongoing Triad/Big Circle Gang beef, Every Hood beefing with each other, Biker war on the Horizon. its going to be a hot summer again
Ontario, how did it come to this?
Ontario, how did it come to this?
MVike28
right around the ACC
‘Allah naharisto’: How two downtown murders ended a six-year feud in northwest Toronto
By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
Sun., March 17, 2019
/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/gta/2019/03/17/allah-naharisto-how-two-downtown-murders-ended-a-six-year-feud-in-northwest-toronto/diries_abdulkhadir.jpg)
A series of Toronto police handout photos show Mohamed Dirie, left, who was shot dead June 28, 2015, and his brother Mohamud, centre, who 50 days later killed Kabil Abdulkhadir, right, outside a Bay St. hotel. (TORONTO POLICE SERVICE)
“Allah naharisto.”
Kabil Abdulkhadir wanted bygones to be bygones when he told Mohamud Dirie the Somali phrase, meaning “may your brother rest in peace,” at a downtown Toronto nightclub in August 2015.
Dirie’s older brother, Mohamed Dirie, known as “Beetlejuice,” had been shot dead in a short-term rental near Liberty Village less than two months earlier.
But the younger Dirie, known as “Monopoly,” wasn’t interested in making peace with Abdulkhadir.
Instead, he shrugged his shoulder dismissively.
Within hours, Abdulkhadir, 27, was lying dead outside the Marriott Hotel on Bay St., killed by five bullets fired from Dirie’s pistol.
Abdulkhadir had lived in fear of the brothers over the course of a six-year beef.
That ended with his death.
Last summer, a jury convicted Mohamud Dirie of first-degree murder in Abdulkhadir’s death.
@thatrapsfan @Broke Wave @Max B
this is too fukking much
By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
Sun., March 17, 2019
A series of Toronto police handout photos show Mohamed Dirie, left, who was shot dead June 28, 2015, and his brother Mohamud, centre, who 50 days later killed Kabil Abdulkhadir, right, outside a Bay St. hotel. (TORONTO POLICE SERVICE)
“Allah naharisto.”
Kabil Abdulkhadir wanted bygones to be bygones when he told Mohamud Dirie the Somali phrase, meaning “may your brother rest in peace,” at a downtown Toronto nightclub in August 2015.
Dirie’s older brother, Mohamed Dirie, known as “Beetlejuice,” had been shot dead in a short-term rental near Liberty Village less than two months earlier.
But the younger Dirie, known as “Monopoly,” wasn’t interested in making peace with Abdulkhadir.
Instead, he shrugged his shoulder dismissively.
Within hours, Abdulkhadir, 27, was lying dead outside the Marriott Hotel on Bay St., killed by five bullets fired from Dirie’s pistol.
Abdulkhadir had lived in fear of the brothers over the course of a six-year beef.
That ended with his death.
Last summer, a jury convicted Mohamud Dirie of first-degree murder in Abdulkhadir’s death.
- This past week, a different jury in the same Toronto courthouse acquitted another man in the murders of Mohamed Dirie and Abdiweli Abdullahi, who was shot to death while he slept.
A younger Dirie brother, Ahmed, is one of four co-accused facing multiple charges for allegedly shooting an innocent man more than 30 times last summer in a housing complex parking lot near Jane St. and Finch Ave.
The brothers first came to public attention in 2013, when Ahmed and Mohamed Dirie were rounded up as part of Project Traveller, the Toronto police investigation into the Dixon City Bloods. That wiretap project infamously exposed the street gang’s ties to former mayor Rob Ford, including members’ attempts to peddle a video of him smoking crack cocaine.
At the time, northwest Toronto was plagued by violence, prompting Toronto police to form a Somali Liaison Unit in an effort to rebuild trust with the community. (It has since disbanded)
Amid the violence, Abdulkhadir’s fear only intensified after elders in the Somali community said he had killed Mohamed Dirie, according to evidence summarized in a pre-trial ruling by Superior Court Justice Michael Dambrot.
Despite neighbourhood gossip, there has been no suggestion Abdulkhadir had any role in that murder, nor that Mohamud Dirie killed him as revenge, say those familiar with both investigations.
“From my perspective, Kabil was not involved at all,” Toronto police acting Insp. Joyce Schertzer, who worked on both cases as a homicide detective, told the Star.
There was no relationship between the killings, she said, except the “chance meeting at the nightclub when (Abdulkhadir) went up to offer his condolences to Monopoly and he said ‘let’s squash the beef now, you lost a brother.’”
Abdulkhadir had hung out and played basketball with the Diries growing up in the Dixon Rd. and Islington Ave. area.
Their relationship changed drastically after an incident in 2009, according to statements made by Abdulkhadir’s family members, some of which were ruled inadmissible by the judge at last year’s trial.
The relatives, either in police statements or in court, said that the relationship soured after the two older Dirie brothers broke into Abdulkhadir’s car and stole $500. They beat him and Abdulkhadir was forced into hiding with a relative, according to summaries included in the judge’s pretrial rulings in the murder case.
“Mr. Abdulkhadir believed that his life was in danger,” the summaries said. “He was unable to visit (the relative) or his siblings due to being threatened or being under threat by Mr. Dirie and his friends,” the judge wrote.
In January 2010, the older Dirie brothers again assaulted Abdulkhadir, this time in jail, calling him a snitch and blaming him for their incarceration.
Abdulkhadir had been in custody after being caught with a firearm. His mother said he told her he had armed himself because he feared the Diries.
Several of Dambrot’s rulings include statements and details Abdulkhadir’s family members provided to police about being intimidated and beaten by the brothers. Some relatives said they were approached to deliver threatening messages to Abdulkhadir.
The threats had Abdulkhadir “running for his life,” one of the rulings said.
On more than one occasion, Abdulkhadir told relatives that if he were to die, “I would be killed by Monopoly.”
Abdulkhadir was sent out of the country and continued to keep a low profile after he returned in 2014 — but his prediction came true early on Aug. 9, 2015, when Mohamud Dirie followed him from the nightclub and ambushed him outside the Bay St. hotel, just behind the Eaton Centre.
Prosecutors Joanne Capozzi and Tim DiMuzio told the jury the evidence, including extensive video surveillance footage, demonstrated the killing was a planned and deliberate execution.
Dirie, 28, is appealing his conviction and life sentence for first-degree murder.
A jury last week acquitted Kamal Hassan, 26, in the murders of Mohamed Dirie and Abdullahi. Hassan blamed another man, Kwasi Skene-Peters, who was killed by police trying to arrest him in 2015.
Ahmed Dirie, known as “Santana,” returns to court for his alleged role in the Jane and Finch shooting next week.
@thatrapsfan @Broke Wave @Max B
this is too fukking much
‘Allah naharisto’: How two downtown murders ended a six-year feud in northwest Toronto
By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
Sun., March 17, 2019
A series of Toronto police handout photos show Mohamed Dirie, left, who was shot dead June 28, 2015, and his brother Mohamud, centre, who 50 days later killed Kabil Abdulkhadir, right, outside a Bay St. hotel. (TORONTO POLICE SERVICE)
“Allah naharisto.”
Kabil Abdulkhadir wanted bygones to be bygones when he told Mohamud Dirie the Somali phrase, meaning “may your brother rest in peace,” at a downtown Toronto nightclub in August 2015.
Dirie’s older brother, Mohamed Dirie, known as “Beetlejuice,” had been shot dead in a short-term rental near Liberty Village less than two months earlier.
But the younger Dirie, known as “Monopoly,” wasn’t interested in making peace with Abdulkhadir.
Instead, he shrugged his shoulder dismissively.
Within hours, Abdulkhadir, 27, was lying dead outside the Marriott Hotel on Bay St., killed by five bullets fired from Dirie’s pistol.
Abdulkhadir had lived in fear of the brothers over the course of a six-year beef.
That ended with his death.
Last summer, a jury convicted Mohamud Dirie of first-degree murder in Abdulkhadir’s death.
- This past week, a different jury in the same Toronto courthouse acquitted another man in the murders of Mohamed Dirie and Abdiweli Abdullahi, who was shot to death while he slept.
A younger Dirie brother, Ahmed, is one of four co-accused facing multiple charges for allegedly shooting an innocent man more than 30 times last summer in a housing complex parking lot near Jane St. and Finch Ave.
The brothers first came to public attention in 2013, when Ahmed and Mohamed Dirie were rounded up as part of Project Traveller, the Toronto police investigation into the Dixon City Bloods. That wiretap project infamously exposed the street gang’s ties to former mayor Rob Ford, including members’ attempts to peddle a video of him smoking crack cocaine.
At the time, northwest Toronto was plagued by violence, prompting Toronto police to form a Somali Liaison Unit in an effort to rebuild trust with the community. (It has since disbanded)
Amid the violence, Abdulkhadir’s fear only intensified after elders in the Somali community said he had killed Mohamed Dirie, according to evidence summarized in a pre-trial ruling by Superior Court Justice Michael Dambrot.
Despite neighbourhood gossip, there has been no suggestion Abdulkhadir had any role in that murder, nor that Mohamud Dirie killed him as revenge, say those familiar with both investigations.
“From my perspective, Kabil was not involved at all,” Toronto police acting Insp. Joyce Schertzer, who worked on both cases as a homicide detective, told the Star.
There was no relationship between the killings, she said, except the “chance meeting at the nightclub when (Abdulkhadir) went up to offer his condolences to Monopoly and he said ‘let’s squash the beef now, you lost a brother.’”
Abdulkhadir had hung out and played basketball with the Diries growing up in the Dixon Rd. and Islington Ave. area.
Their relationship changed drastically after an incident in 2009, according to statements made by Abdulkhadir’s family members, some of which were ruled inadmissible by the judge at last year’s trial.
The relatives, either in police statements or in court, said that the relationship soured after the two older Dirie brothers broke into Abdulkhadir’s car and stole $500. They beat him and Abdulkhadir was forced into hiding with a relative, according to summaries included in the judge’s pretrial rulings in the murder case.
“Mr. Abdulkhadir believed that his life was in danger,” the summaries said. “He was unable to visit (the relative) or his siblings due to being threatened or being under threat by Mr. Dirie and his friends,” the judge wrote.
In January 2010, the older Dirie brothers again assaulted Abdulkhadir, this time in jail, calling him a snitch and blaming him for their incarceration.
Abdulkhadir had been in custody after being caught with a firearm. His mother said he told her he had armed himself because he feared the Diries.
Several of Dambrot’s rulings include statements and details Abdulkhadir’s family members provided to police about being intimidated and beaten by the brothers. Some relatives said they were approached to deliver threatening messages to Abdulkhadir.
The threats had Abdulkhadir “running for his life,” one of the rulings said.
On more than one occasion, Abdulkhadir told relatives that if he were to die, “I would be killed by Monopoly.”
Abdulkhadir was sent out of the country and continued to keep a low profile after he returned in 2014 — but his prediction came true early on Aug. 9, 2015, when Mohamud Dirie followed him from the nightclub and ambushed him outside the Bay St. hotel, just behind the Eaton Centre.
Prosecutors Joanne Capozzi and Tim DiMuzio told the jury the evidence, including extensive video surveillance footage, demonstrated the killing was a planned and deliberate execution.
Dirie, 28, is appealing his conviction and life sentence for first-degree murder.
A jury last week acquitted Kamal Hassan, 26, in the murders of Mohamed Dirie and Abdullahi. Hassan blamed another man, Kwasi Skene-Peters, who was killed by police trying to arrest him in 2015.
Ahmed Dirie, known as “Santana,” returns to court for his alleged role in the Jane and Finch shooting next week.
@thatrapsfan @Broke Wave @Max B
this is too fukking much
summarize this for me, ive seen this article in like 10 places and i still dont get whats going on.
oh, also @bmooregorrilaxxx_23