3 men guilty in daylight shooting that left 12-year-old boy dead
Three men were found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with a deadly North York shooting in 2020 that claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy and injured three others.
On Saturday, the jury returned for the fifth day of deliberations and found Rashawn Chambers, Jahwayne Smart and Cjay Hobbs guilty of killing Dante Sebastian Andreatta, CBC News reported.
Andreatta was walking home with his mom on Nov. 7, 2020 when he was struck by a stray bullet during the shooting, which involved two vehicles in an apartment parking lot near Jane St. and Stong Court.
The shooting started when two occupants of a stolen Honda Accord exited the vehicle and fired at another vehicle in the parking lot of 25 Stong Ct., according to an agreed upon statement of facts, which Crown prosecutors finished presenting to a jury when the trial opened in April 2025.
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Three people in the other vehicle were hurt, including one who was shot four times but survived. Two other occupants of the second vehicle were not struck by gunfire, the statement of facts said.
They told jury members that they were there that afternoon to make a drug deal. Both approached the teens in the car to ask if one of them was the buyer.
Chambers and Smart testified that they started shooting after they saw one of the teenagers pointing a gun out the window, CBC reported.
The Crown had argued they were lying about the teens having a gun and there was no planned drug deal, saying the trio of men went to the area with a plan to shoot the teenagers inside the car.
Thirty-six bullets were unleashed from two guns aimed at a fleeing car in the brazen daylight shooting.
Four days later, on Remembrance Day at Sick Kids, the boy died of a single perforating gunshot wound to his neck.
Chambers and Smart were carrying Glock 19 handguns when they were arrested.
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