Jury watches surveillance videos at trial of 2 men accused of killing Regent Park youth worker

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 10:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A jury successful a Toronto courtroom watched surveillance videos connected Wednesday astatine the proceedings of 2 men charged with first-degree execution of a Regent Park younker worker.

The Crown alleges Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, were among 4 masked men who fired dozens of bullets successful Regent Park connected the evening of Sept. 18, 2021, sidesplitting Thane Murray, 27, and injuring his 2 friends. 

Murray, of Toronto, was changeable respective times successful the country of Oak and Sumach streets. He died astatine the scene. His 2 friends besides suffered gunshot wounds. An advocator for Regent Park's youth, Murray worked astatine respective recreational facilities successful Toronto and was an worker of the Regent Park Community Centre.

The videos that were shown to the assemblage absorption connected a sedan considered a cardinal portion of the grounds successful the lawsuit being heard astatine the Superior Court of Justice.

The Crown has been reviewing surveillance videos to amusement however it believes the 4 alleged shooters travelled to Regent Park connected the time of the shooting. The assemblage has spent days watching videos of a sedan that the Crown believes the 4 men utilized to transportation retired the murder.

One video shows the sedan of involvement connected a broadside thoroughfare adjacent the Chelsea Hotel connected Gerrard Street W.

Video shows 4 masked men leaving the hotel. The Crown alleges the 4 walked to the sedan and drove it to Regent Park to transportation retired the shooting. The Crown utilized video to way the conveyance returning to the aforesaid thoroughfare adjacent the edifice fractional a hr later.
 
Video besides captured masked men walking backmost into the Chelsea hotel.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Crown presented images of the alleged shooters successful the edifice wearing masks aft the shooting.

The Crown told the assemblage that Anderson, earlier the murder, had rented a 2012 beige Nissan Altima sedan and a country astatine the Chelsea Hotel. Both were rented for a week.

According to an agreed connection of facts, Anderson rented the sedan connected Sept. 15, 2021, parked it extracurricular the edifice connected Sept. 17 and conducted a transaction astatine the beforehand table of the edifice connected Sept. 20 for $304.04. 

The Crown alleges the Nissan helium rented intimately resembles the sedan captured connected video, but the defence is challenging that argument.

According to the agreed connection of facts, Toronto constabulary forensic recognition officers recovered 59 ammunition casing astatine the homicide country connected Sept. 18 and 19.

A twelvemonth later, connected Sept. 12, 2022, during an unrelated cause investigation, constabulary recovered a firearm from a residence and it was determined to beryllium a Glock 48.

The firearm was sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences for much testing. On Oct. 26, 2022, a firearm adept determined astatine slightest 1 of the ammunition casings recovered from the homicide country was fired by the Glock 48 seized by constabulary during the cause investigation.