First-degree murder charges laid in Malton shooting

Peel Regional Police released this photo of murder suspect Steven Vanroy Browne on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (Handout)

Two men are facing first-degree murder charges and a third is being sought in the death of a 32-year-old Brampton father, Peel Regional Police announced Thursday.
The suspects were arrested Wednesday in the killing of Dwayne Alexander Thompson, who was fatally shot in a parking lot behind an apartment building in Malton on Nov. 1, 2012, police said.
After the shooting, Thompson’s car was taken and found a day later.

Homicide victim Dwayne Thompson, 32, is pictured in an undated handout photo. (CTV)

Officers made the arrests when they executed search warrants at residences in Brampton, Mississauga and Toronto.
Police said Brampton resident Amal Everton Greensword, 23, and Mississauga resident Adrian Jordan Williams, 19, were taken into custody.
A third suspect, 22-year-old Steven Vanroy Browne, of no fixed address, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. Police are asking people to call their local police service if they know Browne’s whereabouts.
Investigators released a photo of Browne on Thursday, but they say it is dated. Browne has a shaved head.

Boy, 15, gunned down in Rexdale

 

Jarvis Montaque, 15, was gunned down in Rexdale late Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013.

TORONTO - A 15-year-old boy was gunned down in Rexdale late Sunday, the third that age to be shot dead in the city in the last month.
Toronto Police say the victim - identified as Jarvis Montaque - was shot just before 11 p.m. on Jamestown Cr., near Kipling Ave. and Albion Rd.
It's believed the teen was among a group of people standing out front of an address on a paved walkway.
"A male walked walked along the sidewalk on Jamestown Cr. towards the paved walkway where the group was standing and shot the victim at close range," police said Monday. "The male returned to the sidewalk after the shooting and fled the area."
Montaque suffered a gunshot wound to his torso and was rushed to hospital, where he died.
The teen's killing comes just one week after St. Aubyn Rodney, 15, was shot to death in another troubled neighbourhood near Jane St. and Finch Ave. W.
Rodney's friend, a 17-year-old boy who can't be named, is charged with manslaughter for his killing.
And Tyson Bailey, also 15, was gunned down on Jan. 18 in a Regent Park highrise. No arrests have been made.
Reports suggest Montaque is a Grade 10 student at Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary School. His family moved here from Jamaica nearly two years ago.
Police have released few other details, so possible motives for the teen's killing are not yet known