Terrasse killer gets life

Ebamba Lufiau was handed a life sentence Wednesday morning in the shooting death of Angelo D’Onofrio on a north end café terrasse seven years ago.

I’ve always been struck by this incident, for a couple of reasons. One is that it’s too easy to handwave violence among gang members, thinking nobody gets hurt except the people voluntarily in the game. Except sometimes a random bystander like D’Onofrio gets plugged by mistake.

The other is that media jumped too quickly to the assumption D’Onofrio was a mobster himself. There was a lag before journalists clarified that D’Onofrio had no criminal history. In fact, Global still has a piece from 2016 up, headlined “Presumed mobster Angelo D’Onofrio killed in Ahunstic‑Cartierville.” [sic]

Update: CTV has a more thorough account. Both the shooter and the driver were sentenced to life on Wednesday.