Teen who sparked Toronto’s worst mass shooting sentenced to life in prison
TORONTO — A man convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in a shootout at a 2012 community barbecue in Toronto was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of parole for seven years.
Folorunso Owusu, who was 17 years old when he fired a gun sparking pandemonium on Danzig Street, was sentenced as an adult.
Two people — 23-year-old Joshua Yasay and 14-year-old Shyanne Charles — died in the shootout, which Toronto police called an “unprecedented” episode of violence that injured more than 20 others, including a 22-month-old child.
Yasay’s family expressed relief after hearing that the person responsible for the “exceptional” young man’s death had been sentenced as an adult.