A few minutes after Jane Creba was killed during a downtown Toronto gun battle almost three years ago, one of the alleged gunmen in the shoot out was captured on a surveillance camera inside a taxi, court heard on Wednesday.
The defendant known as J.S.R. is seen with a cell phone in his hand, apparently giving instructions to the taxi driver after fleeing the crowded scene where Ms. Creba was caught in the crossfire.
The 20-year-old defendant — who can only be identified as J.S.R. because he was a youth at the time of the Boxing Day 2005 incident — is on trial in Ontario Superior Court. He is facing one charge of second-degree murder, six counts of attempted murder and several weapons offences.
J.S.R. was arrested at a downtown subway station about 40 minutes after the shoot out with a 9-mm Ruger semi-automatic handgun in his possession.
The young man is not accused of killing Ms. Creba, but of firing several shots at a person identified by Crown attorney Kerry Hughes as wearing a "stop snitching" t-shirt, who instigated the gun battle. The "stop snitching" person is alleged to have fired the shot from his .357 Magnum that killed Ms. Creba.
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