Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.

Parents face first-degree murder charges in Brampton boy’s death
Published On Thu, 17 May 2012

Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.
The Canadian Press

A couple accused in the death of a 10-year-old boy are now facing upgraded charges of first-degree murder.

Police say the boy’s father Garfield Boothe and stepmother Nichelle Boothe-Rowe appeared in a Brampton court Thursday for the start of their preliminary hearing.

Both were formally charged with the upgraded counts.

Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.

Garfield Boothe was originally charged with failing to provide the necessities of life but that charge was later upgraded to second-degree murder.

Nichelle Boothe-Rowe was previously facing a manslaughter charge.

Toronto police are investigating a fatal crash involving a taxi and a skateboarder near King and Jarvis streets. (CBC

Taxi driver charged with 2nd-degree murder of skateboarder
CBC News Posted: May 15, 2012 8:57 AM ET Last Updated: May 15, 2012 1:56 PM ET
Toronto police are investigating a fatal crash involving a taxi and a skateboarder near King and Jarvis streets. (CBC)

A Toronto taxi driver has been charged with second-degree murder after a skateboarder was killed in a collision on Monday.

Adib Ibrahim, 43, was charged after police were called to investigate a collision at the intersection of King Street East and George Street just after 6 p.m. ET.

The skateboarder, identified as 28-year-old Ralph Bissonnette, was thrown to the curb and his skateboard snapped in two. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries but was pronounced dead on arrival.

The circumstances surrounding the collision are not clear.

Homicide detectives are now leading the investigation and are asking witnesses to come forward.

Ibrahim was remanded into custody after appearing in court on Tuesday. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 22.

Friends and fellow cab drivers gathered in court on Tuesday, in support of the accused.

A driver named Elias Abrahim told CBC News that Ibrahim has been driving a cab for 15 years and is originally from Ethiopia. He has a wife and two children and lives in the west end of the city.

Abrahim said his friend’s long service as a cab driver is a testament to his careful nature on the road.

“I told you he’s been driving over 15 years, this shows you how much [of a] careful driver he is,” he said.

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Mountie claims mental illness when wife was shot
By Tony Blais, QMI Agency

RCMP Const. Tirth Sehmbi in undated frame grab from Youtube.

EDMONTON – A former RCMP officer accused of shooting his wife to death at their Edmonton home is seeking to be found not guilty as a result of being mentally ill at the time.

Tirth Sehmbi, 39, is charged with second-degree murder in the July 10, 2010, slaying of Rajpinder Kaur Sehmbi.

In Court of Queen’s Bench Friday, defence lawyer Mike Danyluik said an agreed statement of facts would be submitted in the case on Sept. 17 and the matter would then proceed to a contested hearing to decide whether or not Sehmbi should be found not priminally responsible.

In earlier court proceedings, Sehmbi could be seen visibly shaking as he sat handcuffed and shackled.

RCMP Const. Tirth Sehmbi in undated frame grab from Youtube.

Sehmbi has been held in custody at Alberta Hospital and there have been previous court orders for psychiatric assessments to determine whether he was a potential candidate for a not criminally responsible finding.

The 30-year-old victim was found dead in the southeast Edmonton home the couple shared with their two young sons. The boys were not home at the time of the death. 

Aset Magomadova, pictured leaving the Calgary Courts Centre in June 2010, will not have to stand trial until early 2013. (CBC)

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Aset Magomadova, pictured leaving the Calgary Courts Centre in June 2010, will not have to stand trial until early 2013. (CBC)

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Aset Magomadova initially faced a murder charge in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, Aminat, in 2007. During the trial, she testified that she acted in self-defence when her daughter came at her with a knife.

She was convicted of manslaughter and got a suspended sentence, but last year, the Alberta Court of Appeal ordered a new trial on the charge of second-degree murder.

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The victim, Mohamed Omar

Police have made an arrest in the 2011 homicide of Mohamed Omar.

Omar, a father of four, was gunned down outside the Lincoln Motor Hotel on McPhillips Street early Sunday, Oct. 30. A 17-year-old boy was also shot, but recovered.

On May 8, they arrested a suspect. Abdul Bangura, 26, was located near Louelda Avenue and Antrim Street and arrested on second-degree murder and attempted murder charges.

Bangura has been detained at the Provincial Remand Centre.

Omar and a group of associates were leaving the hotel early that day when a gunman pulled up in a sport utility vehicle.

A vehicle carrying the teenage victim managed to drive off and get to a hospital, leaving only Omar at the scene. Paramedics rushed Omar to hospital in critical condition, but he didn’t survive.

Sources say Omar, 28, had ties the African Mafia, an assertion friends dispute.

Katelynn Sampson died in 2008 at the hands of her guardians. (CBC)

Guardians of 7-year-old Toronto girl plead guilty in her death

Donna Irving and Warren Johnson pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the beating death of seven year old Katelynn Sampson on Tuesday. (Alex Tavshuny/CBC)

Katelynn Sampson was severely abused by her guardians
CBC News Posted: May 1, 2012 11:28 AM ET Last Updated: May 1, 2012 4:07 PM ET
Donna Irving and Warren Johnson pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the beating death of seven year old Katelynn Sampson on Tuesday. (Alex Tavshuny/CBC)

Katelynn Sampson died in 2008 at the hands of her guardians. (CBC)
The guardians of Katelynn Sampson have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the seven-year-old’s beating death.

Donna Irving and Warren Johnson were responsible for the care of the little girl when she died in the summer of 2008.

Irving, 33, and Johnson, 50, pleaded guilty to the charges on Tuesday.

On Aug. 3, 2008, police found Katelynn inside an apartment at 105 West Lodge Ave., in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, with obvious signs of trauma. Veteran officers described her injuries as the worst they had ever seen.

Irving had called 911 and said the girl had choked on some food and was not breathing.