Man guilty of second-degree murder in Danzig shooting

By News staff

A 21-year-old man accused of opening fire at a Danzig Street block party in 2012 has been found guilty of second-degree murder.

The man, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Shyanne Charles, 14, and Joshua Yasay, 23, were killed and 22 others were injured at the barbecue on July 16, 2012.

The block party was hosted by a housing complex near Morningside Avenue and Danzig Street.

The Toronto Star reports this is the last prosecution related to the shooting. It was also the only one that went to trial.

Last year, two first-degree murder charges were dropped against Shaquan Mesquito, one of the other men accused in the shooting. He pleaded guilty to other charges, including counselling to murder and uttering a threat to a person to cause bodily harm. He was sentenced to nine years less time served.

In 2014, Nahom Tsegazab was sentenced 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of manslaughter.

During sentencing, Justice John McMahon said Tsegazab was a party to the shooting but the Crown couldn’t prove whether it was his bullets that killed Charles and Yasay.

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