Mark Moore was a one-man hit squad.
At least that is how he is being portrayed in court by the prosecution.
Shot and killed Jahmeel Spence.
Shot and killed Courtney Facey.
Shot and killed Mike James.
Shot and killed Carl Cole.
Shot up a townhouse in which resided a prostitute who purportedly owed him money and refused to pay.
Shot into the ceiling of an Entertainment District nightclub.
Shot up a portion of a schoolhouse wall.
These are the allegations that were made by the Crown against Moore in a Toronto courtroom Wednesday. Allegations they will remain until the jury returns a verdict many weeks down the road.
The 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.
But guns and bullets and shell casings appear to litter Moore's trail.
He sits on the edge of his seat in the dock, chest pressed forward, listening intently to what's being said about him. Only when swivelling his neck to look backwards does the defendant reveal his disfigured face: the result of a bullet that hit him flush more than a dozen years ago. No alleged about that.
The jury has heard about this injury only peripherally and there's been no indication that shooting had anything to do with the charges the 30-year-old is on trial for now.
It does speak to a theme in his life.
What Moore aspired to be was a hard-ass gangsta rapper. Even made a CD at one point, with the assistance of a rapper of some note, Kevin Williams, who once appeared on mixed tapes with Juno Award-winning rapper/hip hop artist Drake. Williams goes by the stage name "Mayhem Moriarty." Moore, who grew up known as "Sparky" — hardly the stuff of tough dude-ism — later adopted the handle "Presidenteh" or "Prezi."
Moore and Williams bonded over their mutual love of music. Moore emphasized to Williams that he was no mere poseur but someone who "speaks what he lives … one of the 'realest out there,' one whose 'name shakes the streets.' "
In his opening address Wednesday, Crown attorney Sean Hickey told the jury that on a day in September, 2010, Williams was sitting in the back seat of a black BMW X5 with Moore at the wheel. He drove the car down a laneway behind an apartment building in Scarborough. This laneway was just across the street from the highrise where Moore had been shot in the face in 2001.
They were headed for the LCBO. But in that laneway, Moore turned the vehicle around, rolled down the window, allegedly shooting Facey and James point-blank as they sat in a parked car listening to music.
"Kevin Williams can't tell us why Mark Moore shot the two men," Hickey said. "All he can say is that (the victims) did nothing at all to provoke or call down upon themselves the hail of bullets that killed them.''
Williams will appear as a witness for the prosecution at this trial.
Moore didn't know either Facey or James, court heard. Neither victim had a criminal history or any gang associations. They were killed Sept. 29.
Jahmeel Spence was a 27-year-old married father of two young children. He'd never met Moore.
On Sept. 10, Spence and his family had gathered for dinner at the Greenbrae Circuit home of his mother-in-law to celebrate his son's first day of school. Around 9 p.m. Spence walked down the street to buy a can of iced tea at a nearby convenience store. At 9:26 he texted his wife, Shivonne Clarke, to ask if the kids would be spending the night at their grandmother's.
Christine Walters, first witness called to the stand Wednesday, recalled just starting to serve out the food when she "heard BANG-BANG-BANG."
First thing she did was lock the kitchen door, which opened out onto the alley behind her townhouse. "I made sure everybody was there. I was calling out names."
Walters, his mother-in-law, looked briefly out the window. "I saw somebody run by the house. That person had a gun … a handgun. He was holding the gun at his side."
Shivonne Clarke tried calling and texting her husband but received no response. Together, the women stepped into the alley, one turning left and the other right. When Walters went back towards her daughter, she saw Clarke running. "When I got closer, I saw Jahmeel.''
He was lying in a pool of blood, surrounded by 15 ejected shell cases. "By the time we reached him, police were already there. They pulled my daughter back. She was hysterical, screaming."
Spence had been shot eight times, including two fatal wounds to the head and one to the chest.
With the same gun that, three weeks later, killed Facey and James.
Hickey told the court that on the morning of the Spence murder Moore sent a text to Williams, bragging he was "terrorizing the burroughs" and urging Williams to watch City Pulse news.
Those bullets, as forensics testing would show, were fired from a 9-mm semi-automatic pistol.
Moore was the owner of that 9-mm, Hickey told the jury in his opening, a chilling preview of evidence that he said they will hear in coming weeks from 75 to 100 witnesses. As the jury seemed to hang on every word, Hickey outlined a narrative of appalling and apparently mostly random violence that occurred over a span of 2½ months in 2010.
"To anyone who even glances at the headlines in this city, that may seem remarkable," said Hickey, referring to four murders committed between Sept. 10 and Nov. 24. "Gun violence and the tragedy and sadness that goes with it seem to be all too commonplace. What makes this case unique is that these four murders were all committed with the same gun over a period of 75 days. The Crown alleges that that gun belonged to Mark Moore."
Three weeks after the murders of Facey and James, that same 9-mm semi-automatic, as determined by forensic analysis, left bullet holes in the back door, balcony railing and patio furniture of an apartment building on the Danforth, where Andrea Furlong — a prostitute and friend of Kevin Williams — lived. Hickey told court that both men were involved in Furlong's "activities," driving her to hotels in Brampton.
Hickey said Furlong objected to paying Moore the amount he insisted she owed him and that threats were made to the woman on Oct. 18 and 19. On Oct. 20, the apartment was riddled with gunfire.
Earlier that month, a man working in his yard in Scarborough noticed what he thought was the pop of firecrackers coming from St. Edmund Campion, a Catholic school on Highcastle Rd. He noticed the glare from the bright headlights of a black SUV lighting up part of the school wall. He called police.
A police constable who responded noticed fresh spit on the ground by the wall. Hickey told court that forensic analysis from a swab of that spit determined a DNA match to Moore. Nine .45-calibre shell casings were also found.
On Nov. 24, Carl Cole was seen standing in the parking lot of an apartment building on Greenbrae Circuit. A silver Chrysler 300 drove up to Cole. According to two witnesses, said Hickey, the driver began firing at Cole from inside the car, then got out and continued firing at the body where it lay on the pavement.
There were 29 gunshot wounds in Cole, fired by the 9-mm pistol that killed the Spence, Facey and James and the same .45-calibre that had sprayed the school wall. Hickey told the jury that cellphone records will show that a phone linked to Moore had called Cole nine times on the day he was killed.
Three days after the shooting, said Hickey, Moore sent a text to Williams saying he'd "got him (Cole) in the cedar that dude dat robb us." The Cedar is believed to be shorthand for Cedarbrae, a school not far from Greenbrae Circuit.
Moore, said Hickey, was also the man who shot into the ceiling following a minor altercation at the XS nightclub months later, on March 10, 2011, with the .45 used in Cole's killing. Moore was arrested for the nightclub incident on March 15.
Four murders. Two guns. One accused.
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