Jury Deliberates In Ephraim Brown Murder Trial
Posted December 10, 2010 6:20 pm.
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The fates of two rival gang members accused of killing an innocent boy are now in the hands of a jury.
The tragic killing of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown, who was caught in the crossfire during a brazen shootout, shocked Toronto.
Gregory Sappleton and Akiel Eubank, both 24, have pleaded not guilty to second degree murder after Brown was hit by a stray bullet on July 22, 2007, at a backyard party in the Sheppard and Jane area.
For almost two months the jury has heard evidence from both sides.
The Crown Attorney told them he doesn’t have to prove whose bullet killed Ephraim that night, arguing both men were firing and didn’t care who got in the way, so they are both guilty.
The Defence claims his clients didn’t fire the shots that killed the boy, and that a third man who was not charged in case, but is a ‘person of interest” in another murder’, actually fire the fatal bullet.
