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The young man gunned down just steps from his south-side home on Paul Anka Drive tried to bribe an Ottawa police officer when he was pulled over on New Year’s Eve.
Tarek Dakhil, 23, known to friends as “T-Rex” was shot multiple times around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the courtyard of a co-operative housing complex at 3339 Paul Anka Dr.
Patrol officers who responded to reports of multiple gunshots found Dakhil in “severe medical distress.” Officers administered first aid until paramedics arrived and took Dakhil to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Dakhil was to appear in court next week after he was arrested on New Year’s Eve. A patrol officer pulled over Dakhil, who was prohibited from driving, while he was behind the wheel on Johnston Road near Kiwanis Court, according to court documents. Police alleged Dakhil tried to bribe the arresting officer with money to look the other way.
The slain man would have also turned 24 next week.
Homicide detectives believe the fatal shooting, the city’s first homicide of the 2018, was targeted.
Dakhil’s brother Meshal Dakhil said he didn’t want to speak to a reporter about Tarek’s death. The slain man was one of six siblings in a family that now mourns him. A large group of family members waited for news about Tarek at The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus after the shooting. Several teens — including friends of the victim — had gathered across the street Tuesday night after the Dakhil family spread word about what had happened.
On Wednesday afternoon, just before Ottawa police officers began searching the large snow-covered courtyard with metal detectors for any bullets or spent casings, a young man walked up to the police tape and stood silently, shaking his head, visibly upset.
Dakhil was a former Brookfield High School student. He played basketball and was part of a team that won the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association boys’ senior championship in 2013.
Johar Syed went to primary and high school with Dakhil and said he was a good friend who “never looked down on anyone around him.
“He always found himself in the centre of everything because of his infectious personality and humour,” Syed said. Dakhil really loved his friends, he said.
The young man, however, had had his share of brushes with the law.
In October 2016, Dakhil was sentenced to six months in jail and 18 months’ probation for a series of offences dating back to 2014, with the most recent occurring in 2016. All told, he was convicted of criminal harassment, making a death threat, unlawfully being inside a home to commit a crime, assaulting six people — one of whom he hit with a Grey Goose vodka bottle — possessing a knife for a dangerous purpose, obstructing police and breaching several conditions imposed on him by the court.
Dakhil’s shooting is the second in the area in just more than a month.
On Nov. 30, 2017 a 26-year-old man was sent to hospital after he was shot near Uplands and Paul Anka drives around 2 a.m. His injuries weren’t life-threatening. Residents in the area told this newspaper they are increasingly concerned about the gunfire they’ve seen and heard.
River Ward Coun. Riley Brockington is also concerned about the violence.
“You, as a councillor and as a community member, never get used to reports of gun violence or homicide in your community. I’m troubled by every one that has occurred in the ward since I took office,” he said.
“Tragedy has happened. A young man has lost his life, and that has always had an impact on me and the community.”
Brockington said he is “very disturbed with the frequent use of guns in this city and what appears to be the availability of guns and the use of guns by young people to solve disputes.”
Just Monday evening, the night before the homicide, Brockington was at a community meeting planning a safety audit on Paul Anka in response to the November shooting. Those audits would have residents walk the common areas, sidewalks, pathways and parking lots to identify dark areas, overgrown bushes and the like that would shield potential dangers. Work would then be done to fix those issues.
Dakhil was shot in the courtyard of the housing complex in which he lived. Police also taped off the pathway that connects his unit to the large common area.
Late Wednesday, police had not arrested a suspect and continued to investigate the killing. Police asked anyone with information to call the homicide squad at 613-236-1222, ext. 5493.
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Tarek Dakhil, 23, known to friends as “T-Rex” was shot multiple times around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the courtyard of a co-operative housing complex at 3339 Paul Anka Dr.
Patrol officers who responded to reports of multiple gunshots found Dakhil in “severe medical distress.” Officers administered first aid until paramedics arrived and took Dakhil to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Dakhil was to appear in court next week after he was arrested on New Year’s Eve. A patrol officer pulled over Dakhil, who was prohibited from driving, while he was behind the wheel on Johnston Road near Kiwanis Court, according to court documents. Police alleged Dakhil tried to bribe the arresting officer with money to look the other way.
The slain man would have also turned 24 next week.
Homicide detectives believe the fatal shooting, the city’s first homicide of the 2018, was targeted.
Dakhil’s brother Meshal Dakhil said he didn’t want to speak to a reporter about Tarek’s death. The slain man was one of six siblings in a family that now mourns him. A large group of family members waited for news about Tarek at The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus after the shooting. Several teens — including friends of the victim — had gathered across the street Tuesday night after the Dakhil family spread word about what had happened.
On Wednesday afternoon, just before Ottawa police officers began searching the large snow-covered courtyard with metal detectors for any bullets or spent casings, a young man walked up to the police tape and stood silently, shaking his head, visibly upset.
Dakhil was a former Brookfield High School student. He played basketball and was part of a team that won the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association boys’ senior championship in 2013.
Johar Syed went to primary and high school with Dakhil and said he was a good friend who “never looked down on anyone around him.
“He always found himself in the centre of everything because of his infectious personality and humour,” Syed said. Dakhil really loved his friends, he said.
The young man, however, had had his share of brushes with the law.
In October 2016, Dakhil was sentenced to six months in jail and 18 months’ probation for a series of offences dating back to 2014, with the most recent occurring in 2016. All told, he was convicted of criminal harassment, making a death threat, unlawfully being inside a home to commit a crime, assaulting six people — one of whom he hit with a Grey Goose vodka bottle — possessing a knife for a dangerous purpose, obstructing police and breaching several conditions imposed on him by the court.
Dakhil’s shooting is the second in the area in just more than a month.
On Nov. 30, 2017 a 26-year-old man was sent to hospital after he was shot near Uplands and Paul Anka drives around 2 a.m. His injuries weren’t life-threatening. Residents in the area told this newspaper they are increasingly concerned about the gunfire they’ve seen and heard.
River Ward Coun. Riley Brockington is also concerned about the violence.
“You, as a councillor and as a community member, never get used to reports of gun violence or homicide in your community. I’m troubled by every one that has occurred in the ward since I took office,” he said.
“Tragedy has happened. A young man has lost his life, and that has always had an impact on me and the community.”
Brockington said he is “very disturbed with the frequent use of guns in this city and what appears to be the availability of guns and the use of guns by young people to solve disputes.”
Just Monday evening, the night before the homicide, Brockington was at a community meeting planning a safety audit on Paul Anka in response to the November shooting. Those audits would have residents walk the common areas, sidewalks, pathways and parking lots to identify dark areas, overgrown bushes and the like that would shield potential dangers. Work would then be done to fix those issues.
Dakhil was shot in the courtyard of the housing complex in which he lived. Police also taped off the pathway that connects his unit to the large common area.
Late Wednesday, police had not arrested a suspect and continued to investigate the killing. Police asked anyone with information to call the homicide squad at 613-236-1222, ext. 5493.
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