5 more suspects sought in robbery, fatal shooting at downtown restaurant
Posted January 30, 2015 12:02 pm.
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Toronto police are looking for five more suspects who played a role in a robbery and fatal shooting at a downtown restaurant last November.
Tariq Mohammed, 31, was shot and killed at Garden Restaurant around 4 a.m. on Nov. 16, after he and his friend were targeted for his friend’s gold chains — worth about $4,000.
Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux held a news conference on Friday to release footage from the restaurant’s security cameras and reveal what police had learned.
Giroux said Mohammed and his friends had taken a cab to Garden, on Dundas Street West near Bay Street, after an ordinary evening at Muzik Nightclub on the Exhibition Place grounds.
The restaurant was full — about 60 to 80 people were inside — and Mohammed and his friends were at the front near the windows.
They were eating at the time the suspects walked into the restaurant and took up position by the front doors and the washrooms at the back.
When Mohammed and his friend decided to go to the washroom, they were set upon by the suspects, armed with semi-automatic guns, and pushed into the women’s washroom. The suspects grabbed two of the friend’s chains and pistol-whipped Mohammed, who managed to help his friend get away.
After the suspects composed themselves and hid their firearms, they went back out into the restaurant and got into another struggle with Mohammed and his friend at the front takeout counter.
One of the suspects fired two shots, hitting two women, and in the ensuing struggle, Mohammed fell behind the counter.
It was then he was shot several times and died. The two women had non-life-threatening injuries.
Giroux said the suspects ran out the main doors and went south on Chestnut Street.
Earlier this month, police arrested Marcus Gibson, 22, and Ceyon Carrington, 28, and charged them with first-degree murder, robbery with a firearm and assault.
Giroux said it wasn’t clear if the suspects went to the restaurant because they’d heard about the expensive jewellery or if it was a crime of opportunity, but he called Gibson and Carrington “violent people” with “criminal baggage.”
