Toronto boy Dante Andreatta, 12, was killed by gunmen aiming at group of five teens, court hears
Torontonians were shocked five years ago when 12-year-old Dante Andreatta was struck and killed by a stray bullet as he walked with his mother on Jane Street in North York in the middle of the afternoon.
On Thursday, a jury trial got underway in the Superior Court of Justice where Rashawn Chambers, Jahwayne Smart and Cjay Hobbs have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder in relation to the five teenagers who were the target of the attack that day.
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