A Crown attorney prosecuting two men for the first-degree murder of Regent Park youth worker Thane Murray and the attempted murder of two of Murray’s childhood friends says a rap song and lyrics found on the phone of one of the accused after his arrest were “the truth” and no coincidence.
Noah Anderson and Junior Jamal Harvey are two of four men the Crown alleges drove into the Regent Park area of Toronto on the evening of Sept. 18, 2021, before parking their rental car and walking on foot towards the area of 330 Gerrard St., east of Parliament.
The four men can be seen on video surveillance chasing Murray and his friends as they were “running for their lives,” assistant Crown attorney Karen Simone told the jury in her closing address Tuesday.
The suspects, who were all wearing masks, can then be seen running off after the shooting. The …