Toronto police say a man has been charged with two counts of murder related to shootings that took place more than six months apart.
Investigators say they arrested 33-year-old Ibrahim Khiar on Wednesday.
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He is charged with second-degree murder in a shooting that sent four people to hospital in the city’s bustling Kensington Market neighbourhood at 10:30 p.m. last Canada Day.
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One of those injured, 19-year-old Marcel Teme, died in hospital three days later.
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Police say Khiar is also charged with first-degree murder in the death of 24-year-old Jaunoi Christian.
Christian was gunned down outside a Toronto nightclub on Feb. 8.
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