Former harm reduction worker sentenced for being accessory in fatal Leslieville shooting

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· Posted: Jun 17, 2025 5:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A erstwhile harm simplification idiosyncratic has been fixed a conditional condemnation of 2 years little a time aft she aided a antheral connected to the fatal shooting of a pistillate successful Leslieville adjacent a now-closed cause depletion site.

Khalila Zara Mohammed, 25, pleaded blameworthy connected Dec. 18, 2024 to being an accessory aft the transgression of manslaughter.

Mohammed, who primitively lied to Toronto police, admitted to helping Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim pursuing the shooting of Karolina Huebner-Makurat extracurricular the South Riverdale Community Health Centre connected Queen Street E. adjacent Carlaw Avenue connected July 7, 2023. 

Huebner-Makurat died successful infirmary aft she was deed by a stray bullet. Police person said that she was struck by the slug aft a radical of 3 men were successful an altercation adjacent and 2 of them fired guns astatine each other.

Ontario Court Justice Russell Silverstein work the reasons for his condemnation successful a Toronto courtroom connected Monday, saying it is due for Mohammed to service her condemnation successful the assemblage fixed the circumstances of the case.

Silverstein said her condemnation is 529 days, aft receiving recognition for clip in custody and nether location arrest. The archetypal 300 days of the condemnation are to beryllium served nether location apprehension and the remaining 229 days with a curfew. In addition, she is ordered to execute 100 hours of assemblage work during the sentence.

"Ms. Mohammed has nary past of unit and has been well-behaved and is connected a beardown rehabilitative way since the committee of the offence. I find that she presents a precise debased hazard of re-offending, and I americium frankincense satisfied that work of the condemnation successful the assemblage would not endanger the information of the community," Silverstein said.

According to an agreed connection of facts, Mohammed helped Ibrahim connected the time of shooting, helped to dainty his wounds, provided caller apparel for him, and ordered an Uber for him to get him retired of the area. Later, she warned him to "lay low" and "get retired of the city." She besides started a romanticist narration with him.

She was arrested connected Aug. 14, 2023. After her arrest and being interviewed by homicide detectives, she provided a connection to police, "essentially denying immoderate cognition of Ibrahim, contrary to her substance messages."

"Ms. Mohammed's actions, portion they came aft the decease of Karoline Huebner-Makurat, nevertheless extended the anguish of her husband, children, and different loved ones," Silverstein said.

"Her assistance to the main offender persisted for respective weeks and progressive galore important steps each intelligibly intended to shield him from the police, astir significantly, lying to the constabulary connected much than 1 occasion."

But determination are mitigating circumstances, including that she is simply a "youthful archetypal offender," Silverstein said.

"Ms. Mohammed has pleaded blameworthy and has expressed remorse to the household of the deceased and to the Court. I person nary uncertainty that it is heartfelt and genuine," he said.

"Ms. Mohammed is present cooperating successful the prosecution of the alleged main offenders, giving afloat and frank grounds astatine their preliminary inquiry."

Fatal shooting led to closure of immoderate depletion sites

The fatal shooting prompted assemblage outcry and provincial reviews of cause depletion sites, which led to authorities that bans immoderate supervised depletion tract wrong 200 metres of a schoolhouse oregon daycare.

The depletion tract located wrong the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, closed up of a March 31 deadline to unopen its doors, arsenic directed by the Ontario government.

Ibrahim was charged with manslaughter and robbery successful the case. Another man, Damian Hudson, has been charged with second-degree murder. Toronto constabulary are continuing to question a 3rd suspect, Ahmed Ali, who is believed to person fled to Somalia.