Thane Murray's mother delivers wrenching statement as his killers face sentencing

John Rieti · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 17, 2025 4:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Thane Murray's parent told an Ontario tribunal Tuesday she inactive can't look astatine his representation 4 years aft helium was changeable and killed.

Dawn Murray was 1 of 17 radical to present a unfortunate interaction connection arsenic sentencing began for the 2 men convicted of murdering Murray, a 27-year-old younker idiosyncratic successful Regent Park, and attempting to termination 2 of his friends on Sept. 18, 2021.

Dawn Murray told the tribunal she struggles each time with the symptom of his loss, and contempt the emotion and enactment of her household inactive struggles to observe holidays due to the fact that her son's not there. 

"Even though I look good connected the outside, I americium dying connected the inside," she said.

Murray was a bully kid who loved his friends, the outdoors, and was ever respectful toward her and others, his parent said. She said she inactive doesn't cognize what her household did to merit this.

"I deliberation astir him being truthful frightened that nighttime and was determination was cipher to support him," she said. 

Noah Anderson, 23, and Junior Jahmal Harvey, 23, person been convicted of 1 number each of first-degree execution and 2 counts each of attempted execution successful transportation with the case. They volition some person automatic beingness sentences with nary accidental of parole for 25 years, but unfortunate interaction statements are inactive being work into tribunal truthful those affected by the shooting tin stock however it has changed their lives.

Allen Uthayakumaran, who was besides changeable 11 times successful the hail of bullets, also delivered a almighty statement. 

"After I was shot, I tried to get backmost up, and I fell aggregate times," helium said.

"I called retired for help, and my eyesight went white. I felt idiosyncratic holding my hand, and I felt their pulse. That's what kept maine alive."

Uthayakumaran said helium was successful a coma for 3 weeks aft the shooting. The twelvemonth that followed was marked by learning to locomotion again, past going location to proceed recovering from aggregate superior injuries. In total, Uthayakumaran said helium underwent 7 surgeries.

Physical injuries aside, Uthayakumaran besides described however his beingness is antithetic present pursuing the senseless shooting.

"I don't enactment successful 1 spot anymore, I spell to enactment and travel home. I can't play hoops anymore, I don't chill extracurricular with friends," helium said.  

And there's nary Murray.

"We tin ne'er spot our person again," Uthayakumaran said.

"I conscionable privation my lad back," said Dawn Murray.