19-year-old charged with murder
Posted Mar 25, 2012 09:07:29 AM.
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A 19-year-old Gatineau man appeared in court Saturday morning, charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Friday morning shootings on Borthwick Avenue in Ottawa’s east end.
Zakaria Dourhnou was arrested in Gatineau Friday afternoon. He is also charged with two counts of assault with a weapon. Another suspect is still at large.
20-year-old Khalid Doreh was killed and two others were injured in yesterday’s shootings. One person remains in hospital while the other was released Saturday.
Dourhnou is known to police. He was charged after police caught him cleaning blood out of the car where Yasdin Ghiasi was shot to death in 2010.
Dourhnou pleaded guilty last year to charges of obstructing justice and breach of probation in that case. He was sentenced to one year in prison plus time already served and also received three years probation.
Dourhnou was also prohibited from possessing a firearm for five years.
Police were called to the Borthwick Avenue home, surrounding it after getting reports of gunfire in the area, shortly before noon Friday.
The home involved in the shooting belongs to 20 year old Carleton University student, Phil Ogbemudia, who says he wasn’t home at the time of the deadly incident.
According to the Ottawa Sun, Ogbemudia went out to get a haircut only to return to find police and paramedics had surrounded his home.
He says he did not know the man killed in his home.
