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CTV News
03-07-2025
- CTV News
‘Wrong place. Wrong time': Two women plead guilty to obstruction in Windsor homicide
Police launch a homicide investigation in the 400 block of Wyandotte Street East in Windsor, Ont., on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (CTV News file photo) Two women have pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in a local homicide. Colleen Clouthier and Elethea Carver, both 49, pleaded guilty Wednesday to their involvement in the police investigation following a shooting on Wyandotte Street East. On Jan. 27, 2025, Sean Shuart, 53, was killed outside of the Homelessness and Housing Help Hub (H4), formerly the Water World pool. During separate, but similar hearings Wednesday, court learned both women had no knowledge what they were doing was connected to the shooting. In fact, Cloutier and Carver had only just met the man the prosecution alleges asked for help. The man, according to the crown, asked the women and a young offender to find his winter jacket and toque; items 'he wore during a crime', according to one of the agreed statement of facts (ASF). He told the group it was for an 'active investigation' and that the police would 'definitely be looking for these'. The man did not say it was for a shooting investigation. The items, according to the ASF, were thrown outside of an apartment building on Glengarry Avenue, just steps from the crime scene. Carver helped devise a plan to call a cab, pickup the man, and take the young offender and Clouthier to retrieve the jacket. Clouthier went with the young offender to Glengarry neighbourhood. The crown alleges the young offender grabbed the jacket and hid it under his own coat. Neither Clouthier nor Carver ever touched the jacket, they do not know what the young offender did with it, and they did not know it was linked to the shooting investigation. Assistant Crown Attorney Jayme Lesperance told the court it would have been very difficult for the crown to prove – beyond reasonable doubt – both women knew the jacket was a piece of evidence in the shooting. They had both been initially charged with accessory after the fact of murder. They pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of obstruction of justice with intent to 'retrieve and dispose' of evidence. 'Wrong place. Wrong time,' Justice Daniel Topp said to Clouthier Wednesday during her sentencing. Court learned the man who asked for help was a minor acquaintance of both women; they had only just met a day or two before the shooting. 'This is one of the collateral consequences of the drug subculture,' Justice Topp said. 'It's sad.' According to the ASF, the man was in Windsor to sell drugs, although neither woman purchased any from him. Clouthier was set to begin rehab the very next morning. 'It's sad your rock bottom is this deep,' Justice Topp said to Clouthier. Clouthier and Carver were arrested on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 respectively. Both have been incarcerated ever since. In that time, court learned, both women are sober, have been working on counselling, substance abuse therapy, and even working on their educations. While acknowledging their 'minor role' in the investigation, the court sentenced both women to time already served but placed them on probation for three years. In what he called an 'unusual' move, Lesperance asked the court to force both women to live in the same place and advise police within 24 hours of any plan to move. A 16-year-old young offender – who cannot be identified by the media – is charged with accessory after the fact of murder. 19-year-old Muhamad 'Ty' Taupan is charged with first degree murder. None of the prosecution allegations heard Wednesday have been proven in court.
CBC
14-06-2025
- CBC
'Unacceptable': Some of Windsor's parking meters are wrong — but people are still getting tickets
Social Sharing Syed Hassan says he doesn't like to complain much. But when his wife told him she got a parking ticket on Thursday night, he knew he needed to speak out. The parking meter on Wyandotte Street West said enforcement hours ended at 6 p.m. Yet when his wife returned to her car after a class at the University of Windsor, she and several other students had $30 tickets on their windshields. Hers had been issued at 6:17 p.m. "I was just kind of upset that they were doing that to students, that's what really got me," he said. "I have a very soft spot for students. And I remember being very broke." Hassan said he felt like the students were targeted because they'd all be in night classes. "That's unacceptable. Taking advantage of people," he said. Windsor city council approved changes to parking fees and hours of enforcement earlier this year. Fees were set to rise from $2 an hour to $2.25, effective June 1, and hours of enforcement were extended by an hour to 7 p.m. A spokesperson for the city said in an initial statement Friday that it had previously issued warnings to people who parked without paying between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., and has handed out 53 tickets during those hours since Tuesday. Pressed on why people were getting tickets at meters with the wrong times listed, the city said that "all 1,440 parking meters across the city have been individually updated to reflect the new pricing and enforcement hours. "While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, there may be a small number of meters that were inadvertently missed," spokesperson Michael Janisse wrote by email. But CBC checked out parking meters near the university and downtown, and didn't see any with the updated enforcement hours. Downtown Coun. Renaldo Agostino told CBC that people who receive a ticket at a meter that hasn't been updated should "just send it in, call 311." "The city's willing to work with everybody on this one," he said. Agostino maintains that all the meters still displaying the old enforcement hours are "all getting transitioned." "All that'll be fixed," he said. "You'll see stickers over things; you'll see information there. You may see some cover ups, but you're going to see it." But Hassan says when he called 311 he was told to formally dispute the ticket using the process described on the back. "311's like, 'We have no clue. There is no such thing. Nobody has told us to refund all the tickets,'" Hassan said. Janisse confirmed that people who get tickets in these scenarios will have to go through the formal dispute process. "In cases where a discrepancy exists, and the meter signage was not updated, the complaint resolution process would see the ticket cancelled," he said, adding that residents should report meters that haven't been updated to 311. But Hassan said the city made the mistake, so it should own up to it: He says it shouldn't be on residents who were following the posted rules to have to take time to go through the dispute process. "Obviously there's a certain level of incompetence I expect from every organization, whether government or private," he said. "The problem is when you find out that you made a mistake, instead of giving people the run around, like I was told to call 311 and then I called 311 and they're telling me, 'I have no idea what you're talking about. You have to go through the dispute process.' That is where my problem lies." At the end of the day, Hassan said, the city just needs to put stickers with the new enforcement hours on the meters. "It's the simplest thing," he said. "They don't have to go make a huge apology to anybody. They just have to go to all their meters and update them."
CTV News
11-05-2025
- Climate
- CTV News
Wyandotte Street East to be closed for road work
Wyandotte Street East is set to be closed beginning on Monday for around 21 days. The road closure will take place from Marentette Avenue to Parent Avenue. Marentette will also close from Wyandotte to Tuscarora Street. Road work will consist of pavement, sidewalk, and street rehabilitation. During this time, no local traffic will be permitted. The construction is expected to finish on May 30, weather permitting.
