Calgary gangster wanted on Canada-wide warrants, accused of killing mother of 5
CBC
A convicted Calgary gangster is wanted on Canada-wide warrants in the death of an innocent bystander in a car crash that orphaned the victim's five children last week.
Police originally deemed the collision a result of a road rage incident involving gunfire but now believe it began as a targeted attack on another driver.
Talal Amer, 29, faces charges of attempted murder, manslaughter, reckless discharge of a firearm, possession of a prohibited firearm with an obliterated serial number and several other gun-related offences.
Amer was once charged with six counts of attempted murder in connection with a violent Calgary street war around 2015.
He ultimately pleaded guilty to lesser offences and had about three years left to serve on his 7½-year sentence handed down in May 2019.
Amer is now accused of chasing and shooting at a man who was driving a Volkswagen Jetta. The incident led to two uninvolved vehicles being struck in a Forest Lawn intersection.
Angela McKenzie, 40, died in the crash, leaving behind five children, who had lost their father three months earlier.
Police initially described the situation as an escalated road rage incident but now say the investigation has led officers to believe the shooting was targeted with the driver of the Jetta being the intended target.
Those inside the Jetta "did not exchange gunfire as previously thought," said police in a written release issued Monday.
Police say Amer was the only person in what has been determined to be a stolen Chevy Silverado.
Investigators allege Amer "was the aggressor" and pursued the Jetta, shooting at it before ultimately colliding with McKenzie's vehicle.
"Our investigators have worked day and night to identify the person responsible for the tragic death of Ms. McKenzie," said the homicide unit's Staff Sgt. Sean Gregson.
"This incident was a careless and senseless display of violence in our community, and we believe that Talal Amer was solely responsible for the death of Ms. McKenzie."
Last Tuesday, just after 11 p.m., police received several calls about gunfire and two vehicles driving erratically along 36th Street S.E.
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