Two more charged with murder in Garden Restaurant shooting
Posted September 2, 2015 12:59 pm.
Last Updated September 2, 2015 1:02 pm.
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A day after a second suspect was charged in the murder of a Mississauga man at a packed downtown Toronto restaurant last fall, two more men have been charged in the case.
Clifton Vassel, 28, and Derek Oppong, 22, were both arrested on Tuesday at the Toronto South Detention Centre and charged with first-degree murder, as well as robbery with a firearm.
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.
Vassel was already in jail awaiting trail for the murder of 47-year-old father of five, Andrew Surage, who was shot dead during a botched robbery outside an after-hours bar on Weston Road last October.
Police said Surage’s friend was robbed of his gold chain outside the club and that Surage asked the suspect to return the chain but was refused.
Vassel is also awaiting trail for attempted murder charges in connection with brazen shooting in North York that sent five people to hospital in April.
Havard McKenzie, 24, of Toronto, turned himself in to police Monday. He was charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm.
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.
With files from The Canadian Press
