Name Of Man Suspected Of Pulling The Trigger In Jane Creba Murder Case Emerges In Court
Posted November 4, 2008 12:00 pm.
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His name is Jeremiah Valentine (left) and there are allegations he’s the man who committed one of the most infamous crimes in recent Toronto history.
The 26-year-old has been named in court as the person who allegedly fired the gun that killed Jane Creba. The Toronto high school student was murdered as she shopped with her family on busy Yonge St. on Boxing Day 2005.
Valentine is facing second-degree murder charges in the case that made world headlines. The revelation came during testimony at the trial of “JSR,” the first of several suspects to be tried in the infamous killing. He was 17 at the time and can’t be legally named, but is also facing second-degree murder accusations.
The defence contends it was Valentine who had the .357 Magnum and that he used it to open fire on a crowd at Yonge and Dundas after an earlier dispute with a group of males at the Eaton Centre. He was apparently wearing a “Stop Snitching” T-shirt when the shots rang out.
The name emerged as the defence grilled one of the key witnesses in the case, Milkan Mijatovic, who may have been with the alleged shooter and wound up being hit in the leg during the gun battle that followed. He denies they were together.
“Tell the truth, you were with Valentine,” Gary Grill charges.
“No, by myself,” Mijatovic answers.
“You watched him touch fists, with another man, you know that he was armed with a .357 Magnum. You saw him swing around and fire his gun,” the lawyer insists.
“No,” the witness repeated in the dramatic exchange.
Valentine was the fourth person arrested in the case, but until now the name of the man cops think pulled the trigger that night has never been publicly uttered.
The suspect was well known to police and faced a slew of drug related charges at the time of the incident. When authorities caught up to him a month after the crime, it came with a staggering revelation. It turns out cops had been looking for Valentine just three days before the shooting but couldn’t find him.
Many believe the outcome would have been very different if they had.
