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My day !

I like Fall ....

That is the time leaves turn color

I enjoy walking on sidewalk that's full of reddish/yellowish maple leaves

I like the beautiful complexion on those leaves caused by sun glow

I like November ......... when it starts to be chilly

As there is a time in this month that will thrill my soul

Certainly not windy, not rainy but SNOWY

Snowball fight, snowman match, white X'mas etc ... are alwayz one of those things I long for and enjoy doing the most !!!~~~~~


No doubt about that,

Snowy day has absolutely made my day ~~~

=)

My Boxing Day Shooting Trial collection - Canoe

November 10, 2006

Free under 3 gun bans

Creba accused in and out of court on drug, weapons charges: docs

By SAM PAZZANO -- Toronto Sun

A man arrested in the Yonge St. shootout that left Toronto teen Jane Creba dead was under three gun bans following convictions at the time of the Boxing Day incident, court documents show.

Wearing a white Tracy McGrady Orlando Magic jersey, Jeremiah Valentine, 24, appeared briefly in Old City Hall court charged with second-degree murder and was remanded in custody until Tuesday.

The issue of weapons bans and lax bail releases have been raised by critics of the justice system recently. Firearm bans usually stem from weapon, drug or violent crime convictions.

Fighting charges

One of Valentine's lawyers, Iryna Revutsky said her client "will be contesting these charges.

"At this stage, we certainly don't know what the allegations are as we have no disclosure," said Revutsky, who represents him along with co-counsel Edward Sapiano.

"I think he's very disturbed by the allegations and he's concerned, and so is his family," Revutsky said.

Valentine is also charged with aggravated assault while using a firearm for the Boxing Day wounding of David Audette, Su Jeyie, Dorian Wallace, Jevoy Johnson and Pui Wiu.

Revutsky is defending Valentine on several, unrelated allegations, including robbery of a Toronto man using an imitation firearm only three days before the Dec. 26 crime that stunned Torontonians.

In and out of court

Valentine was arrested on that robbery in mid-January and was released on a promise to appear, the least stringent of conditions.

He and co-accused Junior Leonard Rodney face a trial in January over the robbery.

Court documents show Valentine has been in and out of court since 2004 on drugs and weapons charges.

Police arrested and charged several men in the Creba case in June in a city-wide sweep and vowed further arrests. Two other men are also charged with second-degree murder along with a 17-year-old, who cannot be named.

My Boxing Day Shooting Trial collection - Toronto Star ( similar version )

Saw 'flashes of light,' witness tells Creba trial

Nov 06, 2008 02:27 PM

Peter Small
Courts Bureau

An innocent bystander injured in the gun battle that killed schoolgirl Jane Creba says she saw flashes seemingly coming from a man's chest before she felt her leg go numb.

Jeyie Su testified at the murder trial of a man who can only be identified as J.S.R. that when she was 19 she was walking south in front of the Foot Locker on Yonge St. with her friend Helen Yiu when she saw a group of three or four black men in front of them on the crowded sidewalk.

"They were talking in a loud voice," she said today, her testimony translated by a Mandarin interpreter.

One of them was wearing a sports vest and a hat, while the other a leather jacket, she said.

"I didn't pay too much attention, I was talking to my friend," Su told prosecutor Kerry Hughes.

The man in the sports vest was about to turn and leave and then suddenly she saw flashes of light coming from the middle of his body, she said.

"I felt numb on my leg. I also heard the noise of pomp, pomp, pomp," she said.

"I fell but not completely to the ground. I tried to walk slowly to the inside of a store," she added.

She held onto the door to support herself, feeling only numbness and not pain, Su said.

A man rushed to comfort her. She didn't dare to check if she was bleeding until paramedics arrived, which they did within seconds, she said.

Su was taken to Sunnybrook hospital with bullet wounds to her right calf and ankle. She had two operations to remove the bullets and to put a screw in her ankle, which is still there.

It took her two years to recover, she said.

J.S.R. has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the 15-year-old schoolgirl's death, to five weapons charges and to six counts of attempted murder of six people injured at the scene, including Su.

The trial continues.

My Boxing Day Shooting Trial Collection - Globe and Mail

Caught in the crossfire

November 7, 2008

TORONTO -- They were part of such a perfect cross-section of modern Toronto and what they saw, and in some cases what happened to them, also offered a perfect glimpse of the rarest but most cruel crime in the modern city.

Jeyie Su had nothing in common with Carl Turner and Jessica Fung until Boxing Day three years ago, when in a fashion they met on Yonge Street downtown. The foreign university student, the corporate lawyer and the banker - and the witnesses or victim-witnesses who have testified here before them - were all out shopping the sales on a warm winter evening.

Jeyie Su and her friend Helen Yiu had just decided to look for a theatre to catch a movie, while Mr. Turner and his girlfriend Ms. Fung, and his parents and his eight-year-old son, were coming out of the Future Shop, then located almost directly across Yonge Street from the Foot Locker on the west side.

Ms. Su and Ms. Yiu were caught in the crossfire of a gunfight that broke out on the crowded sidewalks of the busiest retail day of the year - they were both shot, Ms. Su twice - while Mr. Turner and Ms. Fung were witnesses to it, from the relative safety of the other side, the east side, of Yonge.

Ms. Su, Mr. Turner and Ms. Fung all testified yesterday at the second-degree murder trial of a 20-year-old who, because he was 17 at the time, can be identified only as JSR.

He is pleading not guilty, and it is not alleged that the 9 mm handgun he was found with when he was arrested shortly after the shooting fired the bullet that killed 15-year-old Jane Creba, who, as the jurors have heard, paid with her life for yielding to the call of nature and dashing across Yonge to use a bathroom in the Pizza Pizza on the other side.

Ms. Creba took a bullet to the back, which perforated her aorta; she never made it across to the east side.

Ms. Su was first to testify. Like Ms Yiu, who testified late last month with a Cantonese interpreter at her side, Ms. Su also had an interpreter, Mandarin-speaking in her case, beside her in the witness box. The interpreter sometimes appeared superfluous, as when Ms. Su was asked what she was wearing that day, replied in audible English, "Jeans," and translator Charlie Zhao said, "I was wearing jeans."

She and Ms. Yiu, she said, had just asked a passerby whether there was a theatre further north on Yonge, and were told there wasn't. They turned around at the Pizza Pizza and began walking back to the Eaton Centre when Ms. Su "felt numbness in my leg" and stumbled.

Almost at the same time, "I saw some flashes of light - and also heard a noise, bup-bup-bup." The light was coming from the middle of the body of a man she saw pointing in her direction, but not at her. She heard more of the bup-bup-bup noises, saw more flashes of light. "I was nervous," she said with massive understatement. "I tried to walk slowly inside the store."

The store, as it turned out, was the Foot Locker, and as Ms. Su made it inside, holding onto the doorknob for support she was so weak, she began to feel really ill and "I called: 'Save my life!' and someone came" to comfort her.

She had been shot twice, once in the back of her right calf, once in the side of her ankle; she later had two operations and took two years to fully recover.

On the other side of Yonge, Mr. Turner and his family and Ms. Fung had just come out of the Future Shop when he heard a "couple of pops" that caught his attention, looked in the direction of the noise, and "saw at least one person with a gun, facing south and shooting that way."

It was a young black man, and he was holding the gun above his head, shooting at a slight downward angle, and there was another man, who seemed to be with him, who Mr. Turner now believes was probably trying to pull the shooter away.

He heard three or four more shots ring out, "jumped on top of my son," and they scrabbled behind a parked taxi and waited until the shooting stopped, when someone from the now-defunct Sam the Record Man "gave us a hand signal to go in there."

Ms. Fung saw and heard much the same things as her boyfriend did, but she had once spent time at a shooting range, where she fired different weapons, and was able to better describe the gun she saw: It was not a revolver, she said, but rather the sort that takes a clip in the handle; she suspects it was a 9 mm handgun, because when she fired such a weapon before at that firing range, it was easy to shoot, with a manageable kickback. Anything bigger, she guessed, and a man couldn't have fired it with one hand, held high above his head.

She too took refuge behind a parked cab - there were two parked on the street - when she felt a hand tapping on her shoulder. It was Mr. Turner's mom, and she said they should run to Sam's, where a security man was waving them in.

In her opening address to the jurors last month, prosecutor Kerry Hughes told the jurors that a ballistics expert will testify that no fewer than three guns were fired on Yonge Street that day, and that as many as five could have been fired.

The Oxford Dictionary definition of "at random" is "without a particular aim," fitting in these circumstances. That day, the three shooters - or five - surely weren't trying to wound slight female students or send a lawyer across the street throwing his body over his son or kill Jane Creba. But that's what happened: They were randomized innocents who saw or wandered into a gunfight on Yonge Street.

The trial continues Monday.

My Boxing Day Shooting Trial collection - Toronto Star

Witness heard 'pomp' before leg went numb

Man in vest wheeled, and she saw flashes from the middle of his body, Creba trial told

Nov 07, 2008 04:30 AM

Peter Small
Courts Bureau

A bystander injured in the gun battle that killed schoolgirl Jane Creba says she saw flashes seemingly coming from a man's chest before she felt her leg go numb.

Jeyie Su testified at the murder trial of a man who can only be identified as J.S.R. that at age 19 she was walking south in front of the Foot Locker on Yonge St. on Boxing Day in 2005 with her friend Helen Yiu when she saw a group of three or four black men on the sidewalk.

"They were talking in a loud voice," she said yesterday, her testimony translated by a Mandarin interpreter.

One of them was wearing a sports vest and a hat, while the other had a leather jacket, she said.

"I didn't pay too much attention, I was talking to my friend," Su told prosecutor Kerry Hughes.

As the man in the vest was about to turn away he suddenly wheeled, pointed in her direction, and she saw flashes from the middle of his body, she said.

"I felt numb on my leg. I also heard the noise of pomp, pomp, pomp," she said.

"I fell but not completely to the ground. I tried to walk slowly to the inside of a store," she added.

Su held onto the Foot Locker's door to support herself, feeling numbness, not pain. Her friend Yiu, also injured, was seconds behind.

Su was taken to Sunnybrook hospital with bullet wounds to her right calf and ankle. She had two operations to remove the bullets and to put a screw in her ankle.

J.S.R. has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Creba's death, weapons charges and six counts of the attempted murder of six people injured at the scene, including Su and Yiu.

Carl Turner, a lawyer exiting Future Shop across the street with his family, said he heard "a couple of pops" that drew his attention.

"I saw at least one person with a gun facing south down the street," Turner said. "The gun looked as if it was pointing slightly downwards."

He heard three or four more popping sounds and smelled sulphur.

"I essentially jumped on top of my son and we scurried a few metres down the street and behind a taxi cab," he said.

The shooter was a black male, age 17 to 22, with no facial hair, he said. J.S.R. is a black male who was 17 and had a moustache and goatee at the time.

Jessica Fung, Turner's girlfriend, testified the shooter had a dark complexion and wore a toque. J.S.R. is a light-skinned black man who was wearing a bandana and ball cap.

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