Two new arrests in connection with Laval restaurant shooting
Posted December 1, 2022 12:12 pm.
Police have made two additional arrests in connection with the murder of Bernard Cherfan, a man connected to organized crime, who was shot dead in a restaurant in Laval – in front of several families and children – last June.
Tafari Bezabeh, 19, and Jalen Joel Campbell Brown, 21, were both arrested in Ontario on Tuesday.
Both are facing premeditated murder charges. An after-the-fact accessory charge has also been filed against Campbell Brown.
The two accused are currently detained in Ontario and appeared by videoconference at the Laval courthouse.
They are the second and third arrests in this case, after that of Britney Lewis, who was caught, also in Ontario, in the weeks following the murder. Lewis is also facing premeditated murder charges.
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Long history of organized crime
The 42-year-old victim was murdered in public by at least one bullet to the head on June 1 in a restaurant on boulevard des Laurentides.
Bernard Cherfan was the head of a Lebanese organized crime cell. According to police sources, he was involved in drug trafficking and fraud.
He had previously been convicted of death threats in 2002, and had survived an attempted murder in 2015.
