A jury trial has opened for two men charged in the drive-by shooting of a 15-year-old girl who prosecutors say was in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was killed.
The Crown outlined its case this morning against the two men charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Meriem Boundaoui and the attempted murder of several other people on Feb. 7, 2021.
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Boundaoui was in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was struck by bullets in Montreal’s St-Léonard borough.
Prosecutor Katerine Brabant told jurors the shooting was linked to an argument over parking spots between a family that owned a barber shop and another that owned a grocery store.
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Brabant says Boundaoui had no ties to any party of the conflict.
The accused — Aymane Bouadi and Salim Touaibi — were arrested days apart by Montreal police more than a year after the shooting.
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