Overview

• On May 31, a jury found Rashawn Chambers, Jahwayne Smart and Cjay Hobbs guilty of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder for the Nov. 7, 2020 parking-lot attack near Jane Street and Stong Court
• Court heard that police recovered 36 bullet casings at the scene and traced them to the Glock 19 handguns carried by Chambers and Smart when they were arrested
• Defence lawyers maintained the defendants fired in self-defence during a drug deal gone wrong but jurors sided with the Crown’s assertion of premeditation
• Twelve-year-old Dante Sebastian Andreatta was struck by a stray bullet while shopping with his mother and died in hospital four days later; three occupants of the targeted vehicle survived
• Each man faces a mandatory life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years and is due to be sentenced in July