Three teenagers from the Greater Toronto Area have been charged with murder in the stabbing death of an 18-year-old in Wasaga Beach. The arrests come days after charges were laid in a second slaying there over the Victoria Day long weekend.
Ontario Provincial Police announced Saturday the three face counts of second-degree murder in the May 21 death of Francesco Molinaro, a teen from Bolton in town for the holiday weekend who was fatally stabbed outside a Pizza Pizza restaurant.
OPP said 18-year-old Johnathan Landsberg of Whitby, 19-year-old Eric Talbot of Pickering and 18-year-old Austin Zambrano-Peterson of Toronto were arrested overnight and charged with second-degree murder. They’re due in a Newmarket court Saturday.
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The force said the arrests were assisted by the Durham police tactical team along with their guns and gangs unit.
The charges come after OPP announced Tuesday that a 21-year-old from Wasaga Beach was facing a second-degree murder charge in the long weekend’s other stabbing death.
Twenty-three-year-old Erick Tello-Arias, who was also from Bolton, was killed near a minigolf course in the resort community the early hours of May 23.
Investigators have said they are not treating the stabbings — which occurred less than a kilometre away — as connected.
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