An Ontario man who was once Canada’s most wanted fugitive has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2021 shooting death of a man in Toronto.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Justice Michael Brown delivered his verdict to Abilaziz Mohamed in a downtown Toronto courtroom Thursday morning, more than four years after he shot and killed Craig MacDonald outside a Boston Pizza in Scarborough.
He said his head hit the ground, he felt somebody punch his forehead, he put up his arms to block the punches and he heard yelling but couldn’t make out the words. He said his friend told him it was people they ran into at another bar – Danny’s – a month earlier, with whom he had had an argument. When his lawyer, Tyler Smith, asked Mohamed why he was still engaging with her, Mohamed replied, “Honestly, I wasn’t even thinking clear. I just wasn’t myself that night.”Mohamed said he then saw MacDonald – whom he recognized from Danny’s the month prior – running towards him with his hands in the air, yelling.
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