Man gets 8 years for ‘cold-blooded killing over girl’
Posted September 5, 2013 1:56 pm.
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A 26-year-old man who shot and killed another man in a dispute at an Etobicoke apartment complex two summers ago has been sentenced to eight years in jail.
Juede Noel will serve three years and 10 months, with credit for pretrial custody, Judge Ian Nordheimer said in his decision Thursday.
During the trial, the Crown told the court Noel shot Anthony Smalling, 23, in a fight over a woman on July 29, 2011.
That day, Noel had gone to the Capri Road home of his daughter’s mother to pay child support and had crossed paths with Smalling, her new boyfriend.
Noel was armed with a 9 mm handgun, and his lawyer John Struthers said when Smalling challenged him in the complex’s parking lot, he thought he was under attack and started shooting.
Struthers couldn’t explain why Noel had brought a gun with him to visit his three-year-old, but he said his client was not in a gang, was employed and had no prior record.
“I’m sorry to the family of the deceased,” Noel told the court. “I’m sorry to my daughter for not being there for her emotionally and financially.”
Smalling, meanwhile, had just returned England, where he had been playing semi-pro soccer, his family said. He had also helped out his community in Toronto.
Shantell Smalling called her brother’s death “a cold-blooded killing over a girl,” and guards and police were called in to restrain the families of the two men as they yelled threats at each other.
The Crown had asked for a 10-year sentence.
With files from Marianne Boucher
