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

CBC

27-03-2025

A jury in a Toronto courtroom watched surveillance videos on Wednesday at the trial of two men charged with first-degree murder of a Regent Park youth worker.
The Crown alleges Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, were among four masked men who fired dozens of bullets in Regent Park on the evening of Sept. 18, 2021, killing Thane Murray, 27, and injuring his two friends.
Murray, of Toronto, was shot several times in the area of Oak and Sumach streets. He died at the scene. His two friends also suffered gunshot wounds. An advocate for Regent Park's youth, Murray worked at several recreational facilities in Toronto and was an employee of the Regent Park Community Centre.
The videos that were shown to the jury focus on a sedan considered a key part of the evidence in the case being heard at the Superior Court of Justice.
The Crown has been reviewing surveillance videos to show how it believes the four alleged shooters travelled to Regent Park on the day of the shooting. The jury has spent days watching videos of a sedan that the Crown believes the four men used to carry out the murder.
One video shows the sedan of interest on a side street near the Chelsea Hotel on Gerrard Street W.
Video shows four masked men leaving the hotel. The Crown alleges the four walked to the sedan and drove it to Regent Park to carry out the shooting. The Crown used video to track the vehicle returning to the same street near the hotel half a hour later.
Video also captured masked men walking back into the Chelsea hotel.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Crown presented images of the alleged shooters in the hotel wearing masks after the shooting.
The Crown told the jury that Anderson, before the murder, had rented a 2012 beige Nissan Altima sedan and a room at the Chelsea Hotel. Both were rented for a week.
According to an agreed statement of facts, Anderson rented the sedan on Sept. 15, 2021, parked it outside the hotel on Sept. 17 and conducted a transaction at the front desk of the hotel on Sept. 20 for $304.04.
The Crown alleges the Nissan he rented closely resembles the sedan captured on video, but the defence is challenging that argument.
According to the agreed statement of facts, Toronto police forensic identification officers found 59 shell casing at the homicide scene on Sept. 18 and 19.
A year later, on Sept. 12, 2022, during an unrelated drug investigation, police recovered a firearm from a residence and it was determined to be a Glock 48.
The firearm was sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences for more testing. On Oct. 26, 2022, a firearm expert determined at least one of the shell casings found from the homicide scene was fired by the Glock 48 seized by police during the drug investigation.