Allen Constance was killed by 17-year-old behind the Markham Village Library

Homicide outside library sees teen charged in Markham
CBC News Posted: May 13, 2012 1:06 PM ET Last Updated: May 13, 2012 7:14 PM ET
Emergency crews were called to an area behind the Markham Village Library early Sunday, where a man was found stabbed. He later died. (Courtesy Global TV)

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder following what police say was a homicide early Sunday morning outside a branch of the Markham Public Library.

Officers found a 28-year-old man suffering from grave wounds outside the Markham Village Library, at Highway 7 and Markham Road, at around 3 a.m.

Investigators covered the spot where the man was found, still breathing but badly wounded, to protect the crime scene from the rain. (Courtesy Global TV)
He was still breathing and was taken to hospital by ambulance. He died shortly after from his injuries, which police said were likely the result of being stabbed.

Authorities identified the victim as Markham resident Allen Constance. An autopsy on his body is scheduled for Monday.

Later Sunday morning, police arrested the teenaged suspect and charged him with murder. He is slated to appear in youth court on Monday. Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act forbids publishing his identity.

Man charged in rooming house stabbing

Vidya Kauri

Toronto police have arrested a 28-year-old man accused of stabbing his roommate and landlord in a rooming house near Finch Ave. W. and Humber College Blvd.

Police said the incident happened at about 10 a.m. on Monday when the accused allegedly went into his bedroom and stabbed his 44-year-old roommate in the face and stomach with a broken beer bottle.

He then allegedly broke into his landlord’s room in the house, stabbed the 62-year-old landlord near the head and then hit him on the head with a brick.

The victims managed to flee the home and call police. They were taken to hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.

The accused, Ahmed Abdurahaman Ahmed, was found a short distance from the home and charged with break and enter, two counts of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, possession of dangerous weapons and threatening death.

Descending into the life of a reoffender

Dikila M’Bosso, leaving a courtroom at the Montreal courthouse with his lawyer Mary Hélène Giroulx and an unidentified woman on April 10, 2012, is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery. He is also charged with possessing ammunition for at least three types of prohibited firearms, and in a separate case for leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. Photograph by: Phil Carpenter , Montreal Gazette

The four youngsters who assaulted a 64-year-old Montrealer seven years ago have become career criminals
By Paul Cherry, The Gazette April 16, 2012

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MONTREAL – On Jan. 3, 2005, Martha Taylor Gregory, a 64-year-old grandmother, was stabbed and beaten by four teenagers who were out joyriding in a stolen minivan and decided to steal her car on a whim. It was a senseless crime that captured the attention of Montrealers. The teens were all between 13 and 17. All four were quickly arrested and convicted in youth court. They served between 12 and 16 months in youth detention facilities. A look back at the crime has revealed that all four have since reoffended and three have serious adult criminal records. One is an alleged street gang member facing deportation, another is serving an 11-year sentence for a sexual assault.

Sporting a track suit and using an overly familiar tone when addressing the judge before him, Dikila M’Bosso, 21, waived his right to a preliminary inquiry on Friday in a case where the alleged street gang member is charged with storming into a social housing unit with two accomplices last summer and holding five men hostage during an apparent robbery.

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M’Bosso has kept the provincial courts busy this month. On April 4, he also had a court date in Laval for allegedly leaving the scene of a car accident in 2010. He failed to show up for that hearing.

Each court date serves as a reminder M’Bosso has been a man in limbo since March 14, 2011, when the Federal Court of Canada confirmed a previous decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board ordering his removal. The immigration department’s position is that M’Bosso is inadmissible in Canada on two grounds – because he is part of a criminal organization and has a criminal record that already involves several convictions. During his immigration hearing, the Montreal police alleged M’Bosso has, since the age of 16, been part of two street gangs controlled by the Bo-Gars, a gang based in northern Montreal.

18-year-old arrested after stabbing death near Islington subway station

An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of Khadeem Antoine, 19.

Khadeem Antoine

Antoine was stabbed repeatedly in the chest late Thursday night and left to die near Islington subway station. As he lay bleeding he made a call to Jodie Foster, the mother of his 16-month-old son Elijah.

“Me and Khadeem were fighting a little bit before he got killed, so when he called it was really random,” said Foster. “He said ‘I got stabbed,’ and ‘I love you and I love Elijah.’ ”

Foster has Antoine’s name tattooed on her wrist, and he hers. She described him as someone who was “always laughing,” and who enjoyed spending time with his son.

Emergency crews found Antoine around 12:30 a.m. He was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Brian Mendonca, 18, of Mississauga, faces a charge of first degree murder in connection with the incident.

Mendonca was a friend of Antoine’s, according to Foster.

Victim linked to hate groups including Blood and Honour in B.C. and Aryan Guard in Calgary

RCMP are concerned a gang war could be sparked by allegations a white supremacist was killed because of his association with a group called Blood and Honour.

A Surrey, B.C., man, who died March 17 in what police said appeared to be an attempted break and enter was a member of the group, one of his associates says.

Police were called about 11 p.m. PT to a residence in the Fraser Heights area of Surrey where they found evidence of a violent struggle and a 36-year-old male resident with head injuries.

Officers followed a trail of blood from that home and found the body of Jan Korinth, 26, two residences away. He had been stabbed to death.

The first man was treated and released from hospital. He has not been charged and police have not said whether he is a suspect in Korinth’s slaying.

By Mariam Ibrahim