Fugitive likely in Somalia

By Jennifer O'Brien, The London Free Press

A Toronto man who skipped town after a downtown London shooting spree is likely in Somalia, police say.

With all clues pointing to Africa, police have taken Ahmed Moalin-Mohamed from the Most Wanted section of their website — more than six years after the shocking shootout that sent four people to hospital and could have been much worse.


Investigators have reached out to international police forces, said London Police Const. Ken Steeves.


“We have reason to believe he is in Somalia,” he said. “We have contacted the UK., the U.S., Kenya, the Netherlands and Somalia, through Interpol” Steeves said.


Moalin-Mohamed, born in Somalia, faces 13 charges, including attempted murder in relation to the shooting just before 3 a.m. on Oct. 7, 2006. At that time, someone pulled a gun out and started shooting in what was then a parking lot at Richmond and Carling streets.


Jermaine Weeks, Doug Vaneau, Bryan Jones and Joseph Cosmo were hit.


Police arrested Moalin-Mohamed, then 23, and charged him with 13 offences, but he was released on bail to his parents custody shortly after. Moalin-Mohamed was a no-show for his next court appearance and hasn’t been seen in London since.