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A new romance, a rekindled connection and an ego-driven feud between two men who treated her more like property than a woman they loved claimed Christina Voelzing’s life.
After the 24-year-old was fatally shot on Easter Sunday 2016, one dragged her body to the living room of her Bells Corners house and hid his gun. The other fled town, on the run for her homicide.
Behnam Yaali, 25, was originally charged with second-degree murder for shooting his former girlfriend dead, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in late January. He has yet to be sentenced, but the facts of the case, read out by Crown prosecutor Fara Rupert at the time of his plea, reveal the tragic end of a woman caught in the crossfire between two angry men.
Behnam Yaali was originally charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Another crime had interrupted Yaali’s romance with Voelzing, who at the time of her death was in her last semester at Algonquin College studying victimology, with friends saying she hoped to work with youth victims and offenders.
The two had begun dating when she was still in high school, but that relationship ended after he was arrested in Florida in July 2012. While flying on a return trip from Ecuador to Toronto, he stopped over in Miami, where authorities found more than a kilogram of cocaine stashed in a hidden compartment in his suitcase. He pleaded guilty to importing drugs and was sentenced to 30 months in jail.
While he was locked up, Voelzing started dating Hassan Khalid, but continued to stay in touch with her former boyfriend, even sending him canteen money during his incarceration.
When Yaali was released from prison, he returned to Ottawa, where he was supposed to be on supervised release, and would occasionally see Voelzing, go to her Bells Corners home and speak to her.
That did not sit well with Voelzing’s new boyfriend. Things came to a head on Easter weekend 2016, when Yaali and Khalid started to fight over Voelzing, exchanging threats and insults during phone calls and exchanges of text messages.
The Sonnet Crescent townhome that Voelzing shared with two roommates was full that weekend. One roommate’s boyfriend was staying over. So were Khalid and another of his friends.
On Saturday, Khalid began sending texts to Yaali just after 6 a.m. “Where ya at? It’s Miller. You’re harassing my b*tch. Where ya at? P—— goof.”
At the time of her death, Voelzing’s friends identified her boyfriend to this newspaper as Miller, but said they didn’t know his real name. Homicide detectives determined that Miller and Khalid were one and the same.
Khalid told Yaali he was at Christina’s and asked the man whether he had any “balls.” Yaali told the Khalid to enjoy his night, to which Khalid replied, “Oh I did,” making a crude remarks about a sexual act with Voelzing.
He antagonized Yaali, telling him that Voelzing said his penis was too small for her after she had been with Khalid.
Yaali called the man a peasant and told him Voelzing was all his.
“No doubt we shouldn’t even be beefing over b———-,” Khalid texted. The bigger insult was the hit to his pride, court heard.
“The fact that you called me a goof set me off, so take that back and we all good.”
Approximately 12 hours later, texts and calls resumed with Yaali saying Khalid had little respect on the streets.
“You’re a f——— goof. You’re a nobody. You have zero respect out here. You’re a waste,” the killer texted.
Yaali called Voelzing his “leftovers” and told Khalid to “pray to God you never see me.”
“I don’t take that word goof lightly. I gave you a chance to take that back. See you when I see do you, midget,” Khalid texted.
Yaali told Khalid he wasn’t worth his time.
One of Voelzing’s roommates overheard the two men on the phone just before 4 a.m. Sunday and heard Khalid telling Yaali to meet him nearby. Then Khalid cleaned and oiled his Colt 45 handgun before he and his friend, armed with a knife, left the house to look for Yaali. They didn’t find him.
Around the same time, court heard, Yaali called for backup and he and two other friends drove to Bells Corners.
Yaali began banging on Voelzing’s front door.
Voelzing’s roommate came up the stairs from her basement bedroom, while Khalid’s friend ran up the stairs to warn him of Yaali’s arrival.
The roommate opened the front door to find Yaali pointing a gun to her face. “Where’s Christina?” he demanded. Voelzing ran down the stairs to the front door from her bedroom, with Khalid following her and carrying his Colt 45.
Voelzing extended her arms out to Yaali, her one-time boyfriend, but he had already seen the gun in Khalid’s hands and fired seven shots from a .22-calibre handgun.
Voelzing was hit twice by Yaali’s gunfire: once in the right shoulder and once in the neck. The bullet that passed through her neck perforated both carotid arteries.
Khalid later claimed he had performed first aid on his dying girlfriend.
“That was a lie,” Rupert said.
Instead, the prosecutor said, Khalid dragged Voelzing’s body to a landing before abandoning her, stealing her roommate’s car, driving it to a nearby parking lot and hiding his pistol in the car. Both the car and gun were later found by police.
Yaali fled the scene, stopping at his apartment, where police believed he disposed of his weapon. He checked into a Prince of Wales motel for two nights under a fake name, then fled to Toronto.
Paramedics arriving at the homicide scene found Voelzing without any vital signs. They were able to restore a pulse and transported her to hospital, where she was kept on life support long enough for her brother to fly back from Dubai to say goodbye.
Voelzing was declared brain dead the next day, March 28. She was removed from life support and died in the early morning hours of March 30. Two weeks later, after police obtained a warrant for his arrest, Yaali turned himself in.
A sentencing hearing is to begin April 16.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
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After the 24-year-old was fatally shot on Easter Sunday 2016, one dragged her body to the living room of her Bells Corners house and hid his gun. The other fled town, on the run for her homicide.
Behnam Yaali, 25, was originally charged with second-degree murder for shooting his former girlfriend dead, but instead pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in late January. He has yet to be sentenced, but the facts of the case, read out by Crown prosecutor Fara Rupert at the time of his plea, reveal the tragic end of a woman caught in the crossfire between two angry men.
Behnam Yaali was originally charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Another crime had interrupted Yaali’s romance with Voelzing, who at the time of her death was in her last semester at Algonquin College studying victimology, with friends saying she hoped to work with youth victims and offenders.
The two had begun dating when she was still in high school, but that relationship ended after he was arrested in Florida in July 2012. While flying on a return trip from Ecuador to Toronto, he stopped over in Miami, where authorities found more than a kilogram of cocaine stashed in a hidden compartment in his suitcase. He pleaded guilty to importing drugs and was sentenced to 30 months in jail.
While he was locked up, Voelzing started dating Hassan Khalid, but continued to stay in touch with her former boyfriend, even sending him canteen money during his incarceration.
When Yaali was released from prison, he returned to Ottawa, where he was supposed to be on supervised release, and would occasionally see Voelzing, go to her Bells Corners home and speak to her.
That did not sit well with Voelzing’s new boyfriend. Things came to a head on Easter weekend 2016, when Yaali and Khalid started to fight over Voelzing, exchanging threats and insults during phone calls and exchanges of text messages.
The Sonnet Crescent townhome that Voelzing shared with two roommates was full that weekend. One roommate’s boyfriend was staying over. So were Khalid and another of his friends.
On Saturday, Khalid began sending texts to Yaali just after 6 a.m. “Where ya at? It’s Miller. You’re harassing my b*tch. Where ya at? P—— goof.”
At the time of her death, Voelzing’s friends identified her boyfriend to this newspaper as Miller, but said they didn’t know his real name. Homicide detectives determined that Miller and Khalid were one and the same.
Khalid told Yaali he was at Christina’s and asked the man whether he had any “balls.” Yaali told the Khalid to enjoy his night, to which Khalid replied, “Oh I did,” making a crude remarks about a sexual act with Voelzing.
He antagonized Yaali, telling him that Voelzing said his penis was too small for her after she had been with Khalid.
Yaali called the man a peasant and told him Voelzing was all his.
“No doubt we shouldn’t even be beefing over b———-,” Khalid texted. The bigger insult was the hit to his pride, court heard.
“The fact that you called me a goof set me off, so take that back and we all good.”
Approximately 12 hours later, texts and calls resumed with Yaali saying Khalid had little respect on the streets.
“You’re a f——— goof. You’re a nobody. You have zero respect out here. You’re a waste,” the killer texted.
Yaali called Voelzing his “leftovers” and told Khalid to “pray to God you never see me.”
“I don’t take that word goof lightly. I gave you a chance to take that back. See you when I see do you, midget,” Khalid texted.
Yaali told Khalid he wasn’t worth his time.
One of Voelzing’s roommates overheard the two men on the phone just before 4 a.m. Sunday and heard Khalid telling Yaali to meet him nearby. Then Khalid cleaned and oiled his Colt 45 handgun before he and his friend, armed with a knife, left the house to look for Yaali. They didn’t find him.
Around the same time, court heard, Yaali called for backup and he and two other friends drove to Bells Corners.
Yaali began banging on Voelzing’s front door.
Voelzing’s roommate came up the stairs from her basement bedroom, while Khalid’s friend ran up the stairs to warn him of Yaali’s arrival.
The roommate opened the front door to find Yaali pointing a gun to her face. “Where’s Christina?” he demanded. Voelzing ran down the stairs to the front door from her bedroom, with Khalid following her and carrying his Colt 45.
Voelzing extended her arms out to Yaali, her one-time boyfriend, but he had already seen the gun in Khalid’s hands and fired seven shots from a .22-calibre handgun.
Voelzing was hit twice by Yaali’s gunfire: once in the right shoulder and once in the neck. The bullet that passed through her neck perforated both carotid arteries.
Khalid later claimed he had performed first aid on his dying girlfriend.
“That was a lie,” Rupert said.
Instead, the prosecutor said, Khalid dragged Voelzing’s body to a landing before abandoning her, stealing her roommate’s car, driving it to a nearby parking lot and hiding his pistol in the car. Both the car and gun were later found by police.
Yaali fled the scene, stopping at his apartment, where police believed he disposed of his weapon. He checked into a Prince of Wales motel for two nights under a fake name, then fled to Toronto.
Paramedics arriving at the homicide scene found Voelzing without any vital signs. They were able to restore a pulse and transported her to hospital, where she was kept on life support long enough for her brother to fly back from Dubai to say goodbye.
Voelzing was declared brain dead the next day, March 28. She was removed from life support and died in the early morning hours of March 30. Two weeks later, after police obtained a warrant for his arrest, Yaali turned himself in.
A sentencing hearing is to begin April 16.
syogaretnam@postmedia.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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