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Police believe a teen who was fatally stabbed in Vanier was just looking for a place to smoke weed purchased at an illegal dispensary when he wound up inside a crack den, this newspaper has learned.
Zakaria Iqbal, just 18 years old and a Gloucester High School student, died Monday night after an attack on Montreal Road.
Detectives believe that Iqbal and his friends purchased marijuana at Dr. Greenthumb dispensary, also on Montreal Road. Employees at the dispensary said police visited the pot shop Tuesday as part of their homicide investigation, asking questions about who was there and when.
Though there is proposed government legislation, passed in the House of Commons on Monday, that will legalize recreational marijuana next year, privately run dispensaries will not be part of that framework. All pot shops in Ottawa — and the country — are operating illegally.
Dr. Greenthumb at 973 Montreal Rd. near Bathgate Drive, nearly three kilometres from the homicide scene, opened last summer in a strip mall. Staff, at the time, prided themselves on having the lowest pot shop prices in town: $8.50 a gram.
The dispensary, like others in town, sells to anyone over 19. But as illegal shops operating outside of a regulatory framework, there’s no check on whether underaged patrons are buying the drugs. The dispensary was last raided by police in early October. It reopened days later.
After leaving the dispensary, police believe, Iqbal’s group was looking for a place to smoke. Police believe that Iqbal and the others wound up inside 276 Montreal Rd., a low-rise building on the corner of Lajoie Street. The group eventually left the unit and were gathered in the back lot when a man, believed to have previously been inside with them, began his attack.
One of the young men fled into a nearby bong store and locked himself in the bathroom screaming about the stabbing.
Iqbal was found without a pulse on the ground behind the apartment building. Police received multiple 911 calls alerting them to a fight in the area around 9:30 p.m. Initial reports to police were that as many as three men had been stabbed. Police found only Iqbal. As of late Tuesday they had not located any additional victims.
Iqbal was taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital in critical condition. He was pronounced dead just before 11 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday morning, police were still processing the crime scene which included a large swath of blood on the snow-covered pavement.
Iqbal attended Gloucester High School and played basketball around the city and in the Muslim Basketball Association. In an online forum he said the sport motivated him to get out of bed every morning.
He came from a proud Afghan Muslim family who are well-known in the community.
The slain young man’s cousin Fardeen Iqbal said he couldn’t believe Zakaria was killed and that his “heart broke” when he learned the news.
Zakaria Iqbal, 18, who was fatally stabbed in Vanier on Monday night, attended Gloucester High School and played basketball around the city and in the Muslim Basketball Association.
Zakaria Iqbal’s own grandfather was assassinated by the communist regime in 1981 as he prayed at a mosque, Iqbal’s father and uncle told the Ottawa Citizen in 2001 as they tried to balance their love of their homeland with growing fears about acceptance in North America after the Sept. 11th terror attacks on the United States.
In 2004, Zakaria Iqbal, then just four years old, greeted a fellow Afghan boy arriving in Ottawa for life-saving surgery for a congenital heart defect at CHEO. He was one of about 30 people gathered at the hospital trying to make the boy feel at home. A newspaper photograph shows the Zakaria offering the boy flowers.
Zakaria Iqbal, right, then four years old, presents flowers to Djamshid Djan in the company of Canadian army medic Cpl Kevin Comeau arrives at CHEO in Ottawa for heart surgery on July 2, 2004.
Rahim Iqbal, Zakaria’s father, a cab driver for many years, was a founding member of the Islamic Society of Gloucester, which converted a small storefront on Donald Street into prayer space for the community back in August 2007.
Attempts to reach Rahim Iqbal on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Late Tuesday, police had yet to make any arrests in the case.
Iqbal’s death marks the city’s 14th homicide of the year.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
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Zakaria Iqbal, just 18 years old and a Gloucester High School student, died Monday night after an attack on Montreal Road.
Detectives believe that Iqbal and his friends purchased marijuana at Dr. Greenthumb dispensary, also on Montreal Road. Employees at the dispensary said police visited the pot shop Tuesday as part of their homicide investigation, asking questions about who was there and when.
Though there is proposed government legislation, passed in the House of Commons on Monday, that will legalize recreational marijuana next year, privately run dispensaries will not be part of that framework. All pot shops in Ottawa — and the country — are operating illegally.
Dr. Greenthumb at 973 Montreal Rd. near Bathgate Drive, nearly three kilometres from the homicide scene, opened last summer in a strip mall. Staff, at the time, prided themselves on having the lowest pot shop prices in town: $8.50 a gram.
The dispensary, like others in town, sells to anyone over 19. But as illegal shops operating outside of a regulatory framework, there’s no check on whether underaged patrons are buying the drugs. The dispensary was last raided by police in early October. It reopened days later.
After leaving the dispensary, police believe, Iqbal’s group was looking for a place to smoke. Police believe that Iqbal and the others wound up inside 276 Montreal Rd., a low-rise building on the corner of Lajoie Street. The group eventually left the unit and were gathered in the back lot when a man, believed to have previously been inside with them, began his attack.
One of the young men fled into a nearby bong store and locked himself in the bathroom screaming about the stabbing.
Iqbal was found without a pulse on the ground behind the apartment building. Police received multiple 911 calls alerting them to a fight in the area around 9:30 p.m. Initial reports to police were that as many as three men had been stabbed. Police found only Iqbal. As of late Tuesday they had not located any additional victims.
Iqbal was taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital in critical condition. He was pronounced dead just before 11 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday morning, police were still processing the crime scene which included a large swath of blood on the snow-covered pavement.
Iqbal attended Gloucester High School and played basketball around the city and in the Muslim Basketball Association. In an online forum he said the sport motivated him to get out of bed every morning.
He came from a proud Afghan Muslim family who are well-known in the community.
The slain young man’s cousin Fardeen Iqbal said he couldn’t believe Zakaria was killed and that his “heart broke” when he learned the news.
Zakaria Iqbal, 18, who was fatally stabbed in Vanier on Monday night, attended Gloucester High School and played basketball around the city and in the Muslim Basketball Association.
Zakaria Iqbal’s own grandfather was assassinated by the communist regime in 1981 as he prayed at a mosque, Iqbal’s father and uncle told the Ottawa Citizen in 2001 as they tried to balance their love of their homeland with growing fears about acceptance in North America after the Sept. 11th terror attacks on the United States.
In 2004, Zakaria Iqbal, then just four years old, greeted a fellow Afghan boy arriving in Ottawa for life-saving surgery for a congenital heart defect at CHEO. He was one of about 30 people gathered at the hospital trying to make the boy feel at home. A newspaper photograph shows the Zakaria offering the boy flowers.
Zakaria Iqbal, right, then four years old, presents flowers to Djamshid Djan in the company of Canadian army medic Cpl Kevin Comeau arrives at CHEO in Ottawa for heart surgery on July 2, 2004.
Rahim Iqbal, Zakaria’s father, a cab driver for many years, was a founding member of the Islamic Society of Gloucester, which converted a small storefront on Donald Street into prayer space for the community back in August 2007.
Attempts to reach Rahim Iqbal on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Late Tuesday, police had yet to make any arrests in the case.
Iqbal’s death marks the city’s 14th homicide of the year.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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