Somali man killed, woman wounded outside casino
Monday, October 25, 2010
Alexander Edwin Colin Reid and Adam Michael Brown sat in pressed white dress shirts and pants at the beginning of their two-week trial into the death of 24-year-old Mohamed Ali Ibrahim. Munira Omar, a 20-year-old woman, was also shot in the right hip and taken to hospital Aug. 30, 2007.
“She was very anxious and upset,” said Brandie Thomas, a paramedic who treated Omar in the back of the ambulance on its way to the University of Alberta Hospital. “She was more worried about what her family thought.”
As an RCMP constable and two paramedics described the murder scene for the court, members of the Somali community wiped away tears, walking out of the room for breaks.
Casie Maier, Thomas’s partner and an emergency medical technician, told the court he found Ibrahim dead outside the casino with a gunshot to the back of his head.
Shweat Gherezghier, who was partying at the casino that night with three girlfriends, heard the gunshots when she was having a cigarette outside the casino’s Touch Ultra Lounge.
When she turned around, Gherezghier said she saw Ibrahim lying on the ground and a man dressed in a black ball cap, black hoodie and black pants running away toward the parking lot.
Gherezghier could not give any further description of the fleeing man.
“It was pretty dark,” she said. “It was kind of dim.”
The trial continues.