2 men guilty in murder of Toronto youth worker Thane Murray

Ethan Lang · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 27, 2025 10:03 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Two men person been recovered blameworthy of murdering a Regent Park younker idiosyncratic and attempting to execution 2 of his friends successful a 2021 shooting, pursuing a determination successful a Toronto tribunal Saturday night.

Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, were among 4 masked men who opened occurrence downtown successful a parking batch successful Regent Park connected Sept. 18, 2021, sidesplitting 27-year-old Thane Murray and injuring 2 of his friends, a assemblage found. 

The radical fired 59 bullets from their handguns that night. Murray was deed 14 times, including successful the head, and died astatine the scene. His 2 puerility friends some survived the shooting, but 1 was successful a coma for weeks.

On Saturday, aft a time and a fractional of deliberation, the assemblage recovered some Anderson and Harvey blameworthy of first-degree execution and 2 counts of attempted murder. They volition person automatic beingness sentences with nary accidental of parole for 25 years.

Determining the individuality of the shooters was cardinal during the trial. 

The crown had built a circumstantial lawsuit based connected surveillance video tracking Anderson, Harvey and the 2 others shooters driving to and from Regent Park successful a Nissan Altima rented nether Anderson's name.

Video shown to the assemblage captured the men walking to the car parked connected adjacent McGill Street aft leaving the Chelsea Hotel, wherever Anderson had rented a room, shortly earlier the shooting. Footage besides captured the men returning successful the aforesaid car and parking connected the aforesaid thoroughfare 30 minutes aft the shooting and reentering the hotel.

Footage besides showed that the men changed apparel and shoes earlier and aft the murder.

The Crown argued the motive for the onslaught was a neighbourhood rivalry.

The Crown had played a rap opus for the jury, recovered connected Anderson's telephone and recorded 10 days aft the shooting, successful which they argued lyrics credited to Anderson and Harvey described the murder. In the song, titled "Peppered," the rappers telephone themselves the "RP killas" — RP referring to Regent Park — and rap astir a caput changeable that "sent that lad consecutive to Jesus." 

Anderson and Harvey were some 20 astatine the clip of the shooting.