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<\/p>\nOne of three men involved in a deadly gunfight that killed an innocent bystander outside the Leslieville safe injection site more than two years ago has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.<\/p>\n
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The surprise guilty plea comes just weeks before 22-year-old Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim was set to go to trial. Damien Hudson, one of two alleged shooters who is accused of second-degree murder, is still scheduled to go to trial before a jury next month.<\/p>\n
According to an agreed statement of facts read in court by assistant Crown attorney Paul Zambonini Monday, Caroline Huebner-Makurat was on her way to meet her friend for lunch and was crossing Queen Street when a bullet fired during the shootout went into her right side, through her kidney, liver and aorta, killing her.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old, a wife and mother to two young children, fell to the ground, and despite efforts to save her, she succumbed to her injuries.<\/p>\n
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The facts state that Ibrahim, who was 20 years old at the time, would regularly spend time outside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, where a \u201csafe injection site\u201d was operating.<\/p>\n
The site provided needles and supplies to individuals who were using drugs, primarily fentanyl. Workers at the site would monitor the drug users to make sure they did not overdose and to take steps to save them if they did.<\/p>\n
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The existence of the safe injection site created a market for drug dealers who would primarily sell fentanyl to people who used the site. The site did not provide narcotics.<\/p>\n
On July 5, 2023, Ibrahim had conversations by text message with a drug dealer who was subsequently identified by police and civilian witnesses as Damian Hudson. The facts state \u201cthis man will be subsequently identified as \u2018the man in the white T-shirt.’\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cOf particular significance are text messages from the man in the white t-shirt to Mr. Ibrahim to the effect that he believed that an associate of Mr. Ibrahim had robbed him. The man in the white t-shirt texted: \u2018I don\u2019t care about jail or cameras buddy robbed me\u2019 and \u2018I don\u2019t need to plan ill (sic) up on site anywhere.’\u201d<\/p>\n
The facts state \u201cthese text messages, and other ones sent to a worker on site, Kahlila Mohamed (who shared them with Mr. Ibrahim) were to the effect that the man in the white t-shirt would respond with deadly force if he was robbed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On July 7, 2023, Ibrahim, who was known by the drug users and workers at the centre as \u201cBen,\u201d was hanging out on the west side of the centre in a courtyard just east of the Queen Street East Presbyterian Church. At approximately 12:30 p.m., a man dressed in black exited a TTC bus on the north side of the intersection of Queen and Carlaw. \u201cFor the purpose of the plea, he will be referred to as \u2018the man in black,’\u201d said Zambonini.<\/p>\n
Zambonini told the court that the man in black could be seen on surveillance video looking around the corner of the building at Queen and Carlaw toward the courtyard where Ibrahim and the man in the white T-shirt were located.<\/p>\n
Video surveillance shown in court captured the man in black quickly running across the street to the man in the white T-shirt. It\u2019s then that the man in black and Ibrahim are seen attacking the man in the white T-shirt. At some point, the man in black produced a handgun and repeatedly struck the man in the white T-shirt in the head.<\/p>\n
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