Two teens sat in the prisoner’s box wearing blank expressions as they watched chilling videos of themselves carrying out a series of brazen contract shootings two years ago — a stark illustration of recent warnings that young hired guns are behind cycles of bloodshed in the Toronto area.
Prosecutors played the videos on Wednesday at the downtown Toronto courthouse during the sentencing hearing of R.R. and K.A., two teens who pleaded guilty earlier this month to multiple counts of reckless discharge of a firearm and accessory after the fact to reckless discharge of a firearm. The hearing took place at the same time a funeral was underway for Toronto police Const. Marc Pinizzotto, 43, allegedly shot to death by a 19-year-old working for a gun-for-hire network.
