{"id":640040,"date":"2026-05-01T04:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640040\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:41:17","slug":"2nd-man-charged-in-2023-shooting-death-of-toronto-poets-brother-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/640040\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd man charged in 2023 shooting death of Toronto poet’s brother, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A second man has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of the brother of Toronto poet Mustafa Ahmed three years ago. <\/p>\n

Mohamed Abdullahi, 34, of Toronto, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Mohamed Ahmed, 36. <\/p>\n

Abdullahi was arrested in Belleville, Ont.<\/p>\n

In July 2023, Ahmed was found suffering from a gunshot wound in a vehicle near Sherbourne and Shuter streets. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

In a news release Thursday, Toronto police said Abdullahi was arrested by Belleville police, who were acting on a search warrant at an apartment in that city’s east end. <\/p>\n

Abdullahi was arrested along with two other men and charged with possession of a Schedule 1 substance for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, proceeds of crime under $5,000 and obstructing police. He was scheduled to appear in court Thursday in Toronto. <\/p>\n

Belleville police said in a news release Thursday they had learned Toronto police had an outstanding arrest warrant for Abdullahi for first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

“He was arrested additionally on the strength of the warrant,” Belleville police said.<\/p>\n

In November 2025, Toronto police arrested Yasir Mohamed, 29, in connection with the shooting death. He was charged with first-degree murder, pointing a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, assault with a weapon, possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order and two counts of failure to comply recognizance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-640040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}