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Court views video of man’s fatal shooting
Two men charged with slaying outside Yonge strip club
Megan O’Toole, National Post  Published: Friday, February 19, 2010
It happens in a matter of moments: On a grainy security tape played in court yesterday, two men are forcibly thrown out of the Brass Rail strip club on Yonge Street. They walk south and out of the frame.
A security guard emerges, holding up a cellphone; apparently one of the ejected guests left it inside the bar.
There is no sound on the videotape. But moments later, the crowd milling on this stretch of Yonge scatters. The Brass Rail security staff retreat into the bar. Cabs pull away, leaving the normally busy road eerily deserted.
And a man who will later be identified as John O’Keefe lies dead on the sidewalk, having fallen like a stone as a stray bullet entered his brain.

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LICENSE | EMAIL | PRINT | Text Size: S M L XL | REPORT TYPO | SEND YOUR FEEDBACK | Killed passerby’s final moments shown in court Last Updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | 11:06 PM ET By David McDougall, CBC News The jury in the trial of two men accused in the shooting death of a passerby outside a Toronto strip club in 2008 was shown dramatic security camera footage of the moments leading up to the victim’s death. John O’Keefe, 42, was shot and killed outside the Brass Rail Strip Club on Yonge Street south of Bloor Street in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008, as he headed home from a downtown pub. On Thursday, Crown attorneys at the Ontario Superior Court trial presented footage taken from a Brass Rail security camera at about 1:30 a.m. that morning that shows O’Keefe walking outside the club, then crumpling to the ground. Awet Zekarias, 24, and Edward Paredes, 25, have both pleaded not guilty to seco …

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Constable Smilis, a young York Region police officer, was off duty and on Yonge Street with friends just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 12, 2008. On Thursday, he told a Superior Court jury how a sidewalk altercation, between bouncers from the Brass Rail strip club and two young men they’d just ejected, ended in a shooting that killed Mr. O’Keefe, an innocent man walking up the street.
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As Constable Smilis crossed Yonge Street, intending to call 911 on his cellphone, he looked back to mentally record the appearance of Mr. Paredes and Mr. Zekarias, still walking south away from the strip club. “That’s when I saw a bouncer exit the Brass Rail,” the officer told court. “He had a silver object in his hand and he kind of raised it up.”

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Const. Nick Smilis told court he saw Edward Paredes rack his gun and aim it at the bouncers outside the Brass Rail strip club in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008, minutes after the gunman and his friend Awet Zekarias were forcefully ejected from the bar.

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