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Nearly the first thing Ayyub Arab did every morning, before brushing his teeth or washing his face, was call his cousin Marwan.
The two had grown close in the three years since Marwan left his Libyan homeland to come to Canada to study English and were more like brothers than cousins.
On Sunday afternoon, Ayyub, 22, borrowed his mother’s car so that he and Marwan, 20, could ride from Woodridge Crescent, where they both lived in separate apartments, to get some food at the Shifa Restaurant on Cobden Road. Marwan was supposed to stay over at Ayyub’s that night. By 7 p.m., Ayyub’s mother began to worry and started phoning her son and nephew. Ayyub was in hospital undergoing surgery for three gunshot wounds and his dear cousin Marwan had already been pronounced dead.
“We never heard from Marwan again,” said Ayyub’s sister, Alla Arab, from the Arab family home where relatives had gathered Tuesday morning.
Ayyub Arab was shot in the chest in Sunday night’s shooting at the Safia Restaurant.
Homicide detectives continue to investigate the targeted shooting that killed Marwan and put his cousin within what Alla said was “one hair close to dying.” Doctors were surprised that Ayyub was still alive. Both young men were inside the restaurant around 5:30 p.m. Sunday when police believe a single gunman opened fire, shooting Marwan in the head and Ayyub in the chest, and causing panic in and outside of the strip mall. Police believe there may have been multiple unarmed suspects who had roles in the dispute.
“(Marwan) considered Ayyub like his best friend, brother, cousin,” Alla said.
The two were inseparable.
Ayyub called out for Marwan after the shooting and saw his cousin on the floor, but didn’t know he was dead until he was out of surgery and began asking where Marwan was.
Marwan and Ayyub did most things together, and police allege such was the case when they were both jointly charged with committing theft under $5,000. They were due to appear in court next week. Marwan served a total of four days in jail after he was sentenced for breaching bail conditions in December 2015. Ayyub, who has no criminal record, was known to national police who prohibited alleged terror recruiter and financier Awso Peshdary from contacting the young man he knew from the Algonquin College Muslim Students’ Association.
Police continue to probe whether the shooting is gang-related. Neither Ayyub or Marwan are known to anti-gang police.
— With files from Gary Dimmock
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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The two had grown close in the three years since Marwan left his Libyan homeland to come to Canada to study English and were more like brothers than cousins.
On Sunday afternoon, Ayyub, 22, borrowed his mother’s car so that he and Marwan, 20, could ride from Woodridge Crescent, where they both lived in separate apartments, to get some food at the Shifa Restaurant on Cobden Road. Marwan was supposed to stay over at Ayyub’s that night. By 7 p.m., Ayyub’s mother began to worry and started phoning her son and nephew. Ayyub was in hospital undergoing surgery for three gunshot wounds and his dear cousin Marwan had already been pronounced dead.
“We never heard from Marwan again,” said Ayyub’s sister, Alla Arab, from the Arab family home where relatives had gathered Tuesday morning.
Ayyub Arab was shot in the chest in Sunday night’s shooting at the Safia Restaurant.
Homicide detectives continue to investigate the targeted shooting that killed Marwan and put his cousin within what Alla said was “one hair close to dying.” Doctors were surprised that Ayyub was still alive. Both young men were inside the restaurant around 5:30 p.m. Sunday when police believe a single gunman opened fire, shooting Marwan in the head and Ayyub in the chest, and causing panic in and outside of the strip mall. Police believe there may have been multiple unarmed suspects who had roles in the dispute.
“(Marwan) considered Ayyub like his best friend, brother, cousin,” Alla said.
The two were inseparable.
Ayyub called out for Marwan after the shooting and saw his cousin on the floor, but didn’t know he was dead until he was out of surgery and began asking where Marwan was.
Marwan and Ayyub did most things together, and police allege such was the case when they were both jointly charged with committing theft under $5,000. They were due to appear in court next week. Marwan served a total of four days in jail after he was sentenced for breaching bail conditions in December 2015. Ayyub, who has no criminal record, was known to national police who prohibited alleged terror recruiter and financier Awso Peshdary from contacting the young man he knew from the Algonquin College Muslim Students’ Association.
Police continue to probe whether the shooting is gang-related. Neither Ayyub or Marwan are known to anti-gang police.
— With files from Gary Dimmock
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
查看原文...
