TORONTO — A man convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying of a Toronto teenager on Boxing Day nearly ten years ago has been denied his request for parole.
Jorrell Simpson-Rowe was one of four people found guilty in Jane Creba’s death.
The 15-year-old Creba was shopping with family on Toronto’s busy Yonge Street when she was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between rival gangs in December 2005.
Simpson-Rowe, who began serving a life sentence in 2009, had applied for both day and full parole, but had both his requests denied.
The Parole Board of Canada said it was concerned about the seriousness of Simpson-Rowe’s offences, his lengthy violent past, his disregard for community supervision conditions and the amount of time he had been in jail with no period of any kind of conditional release.
It said that while the 27-year-old’s behaviour was improving, he continued to have difficulty recognizing problematic situations and when it was appropriate to engage or disengage.
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