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Three minutes before they were shot dead, Dylan Ellis and Oliver Martin shared a laugh that, until this morning, remained a private moment captured by a young woman who walked away from a baffling murder. Three days ahead of the one-year anniversary of a murder that has astounded even the seasoned homicide cop on the case, Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux released a picture taken by Oliver Martin's girlfriend just before a mysterious shooter approached the black SUV they were in and fired off several rounds, leaving the two young men to die.
The 25-year-old men had spent the night at a friend's Walnut Ave. apartment watching an NBA playoff game.
At one point in the night, Martin and his girlfriend left the apartment to grab some food from Queen St. They grabbed their friend's apartment keys on the way out so they would be able to get back in the building, Giroux said in a press conference at Toronto Police headquarters.
There's no indication they had any sort of confrontations during that brief food run, Giroux said.
The trio started making their way home around midnight June 13, with Ellis in the driver's seat, Martin in the front passenger seat, and Martin's girlfriend in the backseat, snapping a picture of the two childhood friends as they horsed around in the front.
As the SUV made its way east on Queen St., it was photographed again, this time from a surveillance camera at Bathurst St. It was about that time that the trio received a phone call from the owner of the Walnut St. apartment saying Martin and his girlfriend still had his keys.
They turned around and rolled up to the building.
"Absolutely no one ˜ no one ˜ would have known that they were returning to that address and that's hugely significant to us in our investigation," Giroux said. "The individuals at the party, who were long friends since Oliver and Dylan were little boys, were the only ones that would have known that they were going to be returning to the scene."
The SUV stopped in the middle of Richmond St. A cell phone call was made for the owner of the keys to come outside. Martin was ready to throw the keys out his window when someone approached the driver-side of the SUV.
"The windows are down and the music is playing in the vehicle, but not overly loud," Giroux said. "Dylan Ellis looked out the driver-side window by turning his head to the left and acknowledged this individual by greeting him with a greeting something to consistent (with), 'How's it going?'"
Shots were fired into the vehicle and Martin told his girlfriend to "get down," Giroux said.
"The shooter is standing on the driver-side of the SUV and he's firing directly into the vehicle. After the initial shots, the shooter repositions himself and he moves to the driver-side at the front corner of the SUV and he fires again through the window on a diagonal angle. It's this blow that strikes Oliver Martin in the chest," Giroux said.
At 12:08 a.m., a frantic 911 call is made from Martin's girlfriend.
"The 911 call escalates in its intensity when the young woman in the backseat realizes that both men in the front seat are deceased and now she's alone and she's in the dark."
Both men were pronounced dead in St. Michael's Hospital, felled by bullets to their chests. You must read the rest and readers comments at the Toronto Sun website.
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