their teen years that a hasty choice can change
their lives forever.
"Two teenaged friends who were driving their
parents' luxury vehicles face criminal charges after
an alleged drag race on Mount Pleasant Road killed
a taxi driver who was scheduled to become a
Canadian citizen tomorrow."
"This is a death that should never have
happened,"
Detective Paul Lobsinger told Global News.
"There is no doubt in my mind these young
boys did not intend to kill this person,"
he said.
I have to ask myself: Would it have been
differently said if these youths had not been
rich and the right colour?
"Alexander Ryazanov and Wang-Piao Dumani Ross,
both 18 and of Toronto, are charged with criminal
negligence causing death, although police allege
only one Mercedes struck the taxi.
If convicted, they face maximum sentences of life in
prison."
Mr. Dumani Ross' mother appeared distraught as
she looked at her boy being led out of the box.
She ran out of the courtroom before the date for
her son's bail hearing had been set.
The pair remain in custody, and the Crown will be
seeking their detention, Ms. Flynn said, based on a
likelihood that the young men would reoffend and
that it is in the public's interest to have them behind
bars.
Outside the courtroom, a woman who identified
herself as Mr. Dumani Ross's aunt sat next to a
reporter and asked: "Do you know anything about
the taxi driver?"
Later, she asked a police officer if alcohol had
been a factor in the crash, and looked relieved
when the officer indicated it had not been.
"So they're going to be in jail with other criminals?"
she asked him. "Yes," he replied.
I am sorry to have to inform
Auntie, but her nephew
is a criminal!
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