Jane Krebada, the man who shot and killed a man in Ottawa, has been sentenced to death

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An Ottawa jury has found one of the men convicted in the infamous shooting death of 15-year-old Toronto girl Jane Kreba, who was killed in a Yonge Street shooting on Boxing Day 2005, guilty of one count of manslaughter. Vanier in 2022.

Tyshawn Barnett, 37, pleaded guilty last week to aggravated assault and firearms offenses after firing four non-fatal shots into a man's leg in what Crown prosecutors described as a “revenge” shooting.

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Barnett was also found guilty of discharging a firearm with intent to injure, damage, deface or endanger life, possession of a handgun restricted under a firearms prohibition order and possession of a loaded firearm.

Barnett was 18 at the time of the 2005 shooting, in which six others were wounded and Kreba was killed in a shootout between two rival gangs on a street full of holiday shops in downtown Toronto.

Kreba had just returned a Christmas present and was crossing the street when he caught fire.

Barnett was one of four people found guilty of Kreba's death.

Jorrell-Simpson Rowe and Jeremy Valentine were each charged with second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Investigators determined that the fatal shot that struck and killed Kreba was fired from Valentine's gun. Louis Woodcock and Barnett were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years each in 2010.

They were also found guilty of four counts of aggravated assault against other innocent bystanders who were hit by stray bullets.

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Woodcock and Barnett received double credit for time served in pretrial custody and, as of August 2010, had 43 months to serve.

Barnett had been in Ottawa for about two years in 2022 and lived on the top floor of a three-story low-rise apartment at 219 Granville Street, according to the most recent court records.

He was involved in a heated altercation that started with gunfire in the early hours of April 19, 2022, after a night of drinking at a Montreal Road pub after his downstairs neighbors hosted a rowdy group of friends.

The group arrived at Vanier's apartment after closing time, and when one friend was left behind, he began yelling for friends on the second floor to open the closed lobby doors.

Barnett asked him, “Do you know what time it is?” he shouted. according to the transcript.

The friend became “aggressive and very disrespectful” and yelled back at Barnett, “confronting him” and urging Barnett to fight back.

“The argument quickly escalated,” Crown attorney Matthew Geigen-Miller told the jury at Barnett's trial in March.

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When Barnett and a friend entered the back stairwell of the building, the altercation turned physical and gunshots rang out from the second-floor apartment.

Toronto resident Jason Urbina, who lived in a second-floor apartment, pulled out a handgun and fired two shots at Barnett, but missed.

Urbina traveled to Ottawa in April 2022 and “exploited” a second-floor tenant struggling with addiction, according to the Crown's case plan.

Two shots were fired and everyone “scattered” when neighbors called Ottawa police at 2:31 a.m. about the shooting.

Two officers were dispatched to the apartment and spoke with the tenants, but according to the Crown's plan, no one in the apartment is yet to “admit that there was a shooting.”

That morning, Barnett went downstairs and confronted his neighbor, angry about the noise and confrontation with his party guest, and angered by the shooting.

“He wanted to know where to find the person who shot him,” Geigen-Miller told the jury in her opening statement. “Mr. Barnett found Jason Urbina and he got his revenge.”

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According to the Crown's plan, the second-floor tenant and his girlfriend were distraught by the shooting and left the apartment to buy crack from a friend. On the way, they heard gunshots and witnessed Barnett running from the apartment at 184 Jeanne Mance Street at 6 a.m.

The neighbor and his girlfriend eventually agreed to talk to the police. They left Ottawa and moved to Ontario days after the shooting, the jury heard. The names of the two witnesses have been redacted from the records for fear of retribution.

Urbina was sleeping inside an apartment on rue Jeanne Mance that morning when a gunman broke the front door off its hinges, broke in, and shot Urbina four times in the leg.

The shooter ran out the door, leaving Urbina bleeding on the kitchen floor.

Barnett's defense attorney, Marco Ciarra, argued that the witnesses were not credible or credible when the jury heard closing arguments on April 2.

Barnett chose not to testify and his defense attorney did not call any witnesses or evidence.

The Crown countered that the witnesses were reliable and credible and that their identification of Barnett was corroborated by other evidence.

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Geigen-Miller pointed to Barnett's “strong motive” for the crime, and investigators obtained data from Barnett's cell phone that showed he was looking for the victim before the shooting.

Barnett was found guilty on all four counts by a jury on April 5.

The jury was never told about Barnett's criminal history or details about his involvement in Kreba's death, a standard procedure to protect a defendant's right to a fair jury trial.

The jury also did not know that Barnett, who was on trial for shooting Vanier, was incarcerated for a drug offense.

Barnett was arrested by Toronto police in 2020 as part of a massive operation known as Project Sunder, which arrested 114 suspects with ties to the Eglington West Crips gang on the streets of Toronto's west side.

Barnett was 33 years old at the time of this arrest and has been charged with possession and transportation of cocaine, cannabis, fentanyl and Percocet.

He pleaded guilty to three drug-related charges in July 2022 and was sentenced to three years. Now he is serving his sentence.

His aggravated assault case will be back in court in early May, when a sentencing date will be set.

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