The widow of a Toronto man stole his gold chain and killed during her birthday celebration three years ago said that she has lived with guilt since.
Mohanie Henry-Khan pronounced a declaration of impact of heartbreaking victim in a Toronto courage Friday During the condemnation hearing for Jahvon Waldron.
In November, a jury recognized Waldron guilty of second degree murder, serious assault and theft with a firearm on May 7, 2022, died of Peter Khan, 36.
That night, Khan, his wife and friends were released at the Tropical Nights bar in Scarborough celebrating his 32nd anniversary when the tragedy took place. Khan and his friend were in the standing parking lot next to his car when a masked man approached them and asked for a cigarette before grasping his gold chain he wore.
Khan was then shot in the chest at close range. He was transported urgently to the hospital where he died later.
Henry-Khan told short Friday how she had lived with the guilt to know that her husband was killed the night he took her to celebrate his birthday.
“Your honor, how can I celebrate my life when it has led to my husband’s death?” Said Khan through tears.
She said that after the shooting, she ran alongside her husband to try to help her.
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“I did my best to stop bleeding, the person I loved the most in this world. Peter called my name very weakly, “she said.
“He held my hand when he was lying there while dying, looked at me in my eyes and said to me:” I love you “. My husband’s last words were to remind me that he loved me. »»
The same night, Dante Roopchand was also shot down and stole his gold chain, and another man was stolen from the handle of his gold channel in a nearby shopping square.
The deputy prosecutor of the crown, Paul Kelly, told the judge of the Superior Court Brian O’Marra that Waldron, who was 28 years old at the time, should spend life in prison without any chance of parole for 20 to 25 years.
“This whole episode is full of aggravating factors. How deliberate and calculated: he went to tropical nights to steal people, stealing them with their gold, “said Kelly.
“He planned to steal them, he pulled them; The injury and theft of Mr. Roopchand, which was not a homicide either. »»
The second degree murder has an automatic life imprisonment, but O’Marra must decide on an appropriate period of ineligibility for parole between 10 and 25 years.
Kelly told O’Marra that there was a reason why six of the 12 jurors suggested a period of ineligibility for the conditional liberation of 25 years, even without knowing the long criminal record of Waldron.
Defense lawyer, Brian Crothers, suggested that an appropriate period of ineligibility for parole for murder is 12 to 15 years.
Crothers told the court that Waldron’s father had been expelled to Trinidad due to problems with the law when he was a baby, but despite that, he came from a loving house.
Crothers also explained how he was hit by the deadly shooting of his older brother in 2011 – testifying to his older brother to die in his arms.
“He had advice on trauma after his brother’s shooting,” said Crothers.
Kelly postponed the declaration of Crothers.
“Someone who had undergone the trauma of his brother’s death because of armed violence would be the last person who would attract the life of another because of armed violence, but it is apparently not The case, “said Kelly.
The widow of Khan told the court that she still had trouble understanding why Waldron had to shoot her husband. “My husband and I did nothing wrong. He was a construction worker. He worked for everything he had. He did not deserve that his life was torn from him, ”said Henry.
Waldron was asked if he wanted to contact the court. His lawyer said he had nothing to say.
O’Marra will pronounce his sentence on March 28.
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