Suspect surrenders in Garden Restaurant shooting, charged with murder
Posted September 1, 2015 12:05 pm.
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The second suspect in a 2014 murder at Garden Restaurant has surrendered to police.
Havard McKenzie, 24, of Toronto, turned himself in around 1 a.m. Tuesday.
He was charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm in the Nov. 16, 2014 shooting. He was also charged with two other counts of robbery with a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, weapons dangerous, two counts of assault, and pointing a firearm.
McKenzie will appear in court later Tuesday
Tariq Mohammed, 31, was shot and killed at Garden Restaurant – on Dundas Street West near Bay Street – around 4 a.m. on Nov. 16, after he and his friend were targeted for his friend’s gold chains worth about $4,000. Two women had non-life-threatening injuries.
At the time, police said it wasn’t clear if the suspects went to the restaurant because they’d heard about the expensive jewellery or if it was a crime of opportunity.
Abdirisak Yusuf Ibrahim, of no fixed address, was arrested on Aug. 18 and charged with first-degree murder and robbery. Ibrahim was the focus of a Canada-wide warrant and was believed to have been in Regina.
Earlier this year, charges were stayed against two men, after it seems they were identified incorrectly by police.
