- 注册
- 2002-10-07
- 消息
- 402,622
- 荣誉分数
- 77
- 声望点数
- 228
Accused murderer and admitted drug dealer Eriklit Musollari began testifying in his own defence Thursday, describing how he’d fled a blood feud in his native Albania to come to Canada.
The 24-year-old has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the March 2012 shooting death of Peyman Hatami at a Hog’s Back area strip mall.
He has admitted that the single bullet that pierced Hatami’s heart came from his gun during a $40 drug deal.
Musollari spoke articulately in English recounting how he came to Canada in the winter of 2010 after studying in Michigan where he lived with his uncle.
“I always wanted to come to Canada,” he said. “It met all the criteria for me hiding out from blood revenge.”
Ultimately, however, he slipped into the life of a small-time cocaine dealer to pay bills and pay for a car, and ultimately became embroiled in a feud of a different kind.
“It took away my financial stress,” he said. “It wasn’t big, big money, but it was enough to get by.”
Musollari described being educated by an Ottawa drug dealer who taught him “the game” and sold him a gun for self-protection.
And later he befriended convicted drug dealer Mustafa (Mousi) Waili and his colleagues who went by such names as The Hulk, Dice and Morocco.
It was a friendship that quickly went sour when Waili discovered that Musollari had been dealing drugs on his patch.
Waili, who liked to meet in stairwells, called Musollari for a meeting at his apartment and, with Dice in the background fondling a firearm, smashed Musollari in the face, breaking his nose.
“Mousi gave me one punch,” Musollari said. “It banged my head to the wall.”
He sought treatment at the Civic Hospital where a plastic surgeon re-aligned his nose.
The trial continues.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/chrisicobb
查看原文...
The 24-year-old has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the March 2012 shooting death of Peyman Hatami at a Hog’s Back area strip mall.
He has admitted that the single bullet that pierced Hatami’s heart came from his gun during a $40 drug deal.
Musollari spoke articulately in English recounting how he came to Canada in the winter of 2010 after studying in Michigan where he lived with his uncle.
“I always wanted to come to Canada,” he said. “It met all the criteria for me hiding out from blood revenge.”
Ultimately, however, he slipped into the life of a small-time cocaine dealer to pay bills and pay for a car, and ultimately became embroiled in a feud of a different kind.
“It took away my financial stress,” he said. “It wasn’t big, big money, but it was enough to get by.”
Musollari described being educated by an Ottawa drug dealer who taught him “the game” and sold him a gun for self-protection.
And later he befriended convicted drug dealer Mustafa (Mousi) Waili and his colleagues who went by such names as The Hulk, Dice and Morocco.
It was a friendship that quickly went sour when Waili discovered that Musollari had been dealing drugs on his patch.
Waili, who liked to meet in stairwells, called Musollari for a meeting at his apartment and, with Dice in the background fondling a firearm, smashed Musollari in the face, breaking his nose.
“Mousi gave me one punch,” Musollari said. “It banged my head to the wall.”
He sought treatment at the Civic Hospital where a plastic surgeon re-aligned his nose.
The trial continues.
ccobb@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/chrisicobb
查看原文...
