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Family and friends gathered Saturday night at the exact spot where Devon Labelle was attacked and killed, to remember the slain father of one.
Labelle, 24, known as “D-Loc,” was fatally stabbed Thursday afternoon outside a Jean Coutu pharmacy on Montreal Road. Police have made no arrests in the killing but are looking for several suspects believed to have fled the pharmacy after Labelle’s throat was slit in broad daylight on a busy Vanier corner. The attacker then tossed the alleged murder weapon in nearby Carillon Park. Investigators believe Labelle was targeted for attack.
A longtime friend told the Citizen that Labelle, who had previously been charged with human trafficking offences, wasn’t a bad person but had made some bad choices.
“This is not who he was,” said the friend, who is a performer and goes by the name Mec Rezarek. Labelle, he said, was a father of a young boy, a son and a brother. “He had a great heart. He was a young man looking for a way out.”
Labelle was charged last year with a slew of offences related to allegedly pimping and beating an ex-girlfriend. For those allegations, he was convicted of two counts of assault; the bulk of the other criminal charges against him were withdrawn.
Homicide detectives are now probing what role links to Ottawa’s sex trade may have played in the young man’s killing.
Rezarek, like Labelle, grew up in Lowertown. Labelle’s mother arrived in Ottawa from Texas Saturday after learning of her son’s brutal killing. Labelle grew up without his father, circumstances like Rezarek’s own.
“He was a remarkable young man. He had a lot of talent,” Rezarek said. Labelle “got caught up in the struggle of poverty and trying to find ways to get out.”
Rezarek said he tried to get Labelle interested in producing music, and it worked for awhile but eventually Rezarek didn’t have the resources to keep letting kids in the neighbourhood come and record at his home studio.
In recent years, Labelle hadn’t been working with Rezarek. Rezarek himself thinks that more avenues for inner-city youth to explore music and other interests might have offered Labelle a way out of a dangerous life.
“It could have saved him,” he said.
When Rezarek heard what happened to Labelle on Thursday, he was “shocked.”
“I feel like I failed him in a way, because I wasn’t able to get him out of there,” he said.
“D was very special, he was talented, he had a lot of skills, he was a natural-born leader,” he said.
Friends of Labelle’s mother have also set up a Gofundme campaign to raise money for her slain son’s funeral costs. Police continue to investigate Labelle’s killing, the city’s second homicide of the year.
Syogaretnam@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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Labelle, 24, known as “D-Loc,” was fatally stabbed Thursday afternoon outside a Jean Coutu pharmacy on Montreal Road. Police have made no arrests in the killing but are looking for several suspects believed to have fled the pharmacy after Labelle’s throat was slit in broad daylight on a busy Vanier corner. The attacker then tossed the alleged murder weapon in nearby Carillon Park. Investigators believe Labelle was targeted for attack.
A longtime friend told the Citizen that Labelle, who had previously been charged with human trafficking offences, wasn’t a bad person but had made some bad choices.
“This is not who he was,” said the friend, who is a performer and goes by the name Mec Rezarek. Labelle, he said, was a father of a young boy, a son and a brother. “He had a great heart. He was a young man looking for a way out.”
Labelle was charged last year with a slew of offences related to allegedly pimping and beating an ex-girlfriend. For those allegations, he was convicted of two counts of assault; the bulk of the other criminal charges against him were withdrawn.
Homicide detectives are now probing what role links to Ottawa’s sex trade may have played in the young man’s killing.
Rezarek, like Labelle, grew up in Lowertown. Labelle’s mother arrived in Ottawa from Texas Saturday after learning of her son’s brutal killing. Labelle grew up without his father, circumstances like Rezarek’s own.
“He was a remarkable young man. He had a lot of talent,” Rezarek said. Labelle “got caught up in the struggle of poverty and trying to find ways to get out.”
Rezarek said he tried to get Labelle interested in producing music, and it worked for awhile but eventually Rezarek didn’t have the resources to keep letting kids in the neighbourhood come and record at his home studio.
In recent years, Labelle hadn’t been working with Rezarek. Rezarek himself thinks that more avenues for inner-city youth to explore music and other interests might have offered Labelle a way out of a dangerous life.
“It could have saved him,” he said.
When Rezarek heard what happened to Labelle on Thursday, he was “shocked.”
“I feel like I failed him in a way, because I wasn’t able to get him out of there,” he said.
“D was very special, he was talented, he had a lot of skills, he was a natural-born leader,” he said.
Friends of Labelle’s mother have also set up a Gofundme campaign to raise money for her slain son’s funeral costs. Police continue to investigate Labelle’s killing, the city’s second homicide of the year.
Syogaretnam@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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