A 17-year-old from Hamilton faces a homicide rate after a fight in a mountain park that, police say, killed a 19-year-old man, sent three others to the hospital and saw a vehicle run over two people.
Ali Mohummad of the Peel region died after 1 a.m. on Sunday, not in the scene of the tumult.
According to police, two groups, one from Peel and the other from Hamilton, gathered in the parking lot of a grocery shopping center at 310 Limeridge Road West to settle a dispute.
While 4 Peel Cars stopped in the parking lot, investigators say about 30 men from Hamilton’s organization ambushed them.
Knives, sticks, stones, pipes and a Taser used in the fight.
While others were fleeing the countryside, members of Hamilton’s organization boarded a blue Ford Mustang and a white BMW that belonged to Peel members and drove them through the countryside. Video footage from the scene shows the BMW driving through two other people believed to be from Hamilton’s team. Police say they were injured but have not been identified.
The match left two with gunshot wounds and one with a head wound. All of them, from Peel, went to the hospital. Two men have left the hospital while one recovers from an operation.
Police said that around 5 a.m., Peel’s organization told police that one of its members was missing. This led Hamilton police to seek dominance and eventually locate the 19-year-old dead man. He died in Kilkenny Castle, a nearby apartment.
“This is a tragedy, anything that has completely gotten out of it deserves never to have happened,” Sergeant Dét said. Peter Thom of the Hamilton Police Department told the media on Sunday.
Thom noted that no one in the Peel organization knew the police. The same cannot be said of members of Hamilton’s organization, whom the police are still looking to identify.
The 17-year-old faces an instant-grade homicide rate, two counts of annoying attack, and gun attack.
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