Ontario Provincial Police arrested four GTA men and issued warrants for two other men Wednesday, in the slaying of a Markham man found shot in a ditch near Barrie last year, police said.
Jonathan Chambers, 21, was kidnapped from Brampton on March 7 last year, OPP said.
He was driven to a remote area along 4th Line, near Oro-Medonte, where he was shot "execution-style,” police said.
Three of the suspects are believed to have been among the group with Chambers when he was killed.
Tafari Williams, 28 of Mississauga, Terrance Walker, 27, of Toronto and Gregory Millar, 31, of Brampton, all face first-degree murder charges. Andrew Turner, 30, of Brampton, faces a charge of conspiracy to kidnap.
Lenworth Anthony Spence, 28, is wanted for first-degree murder. Brampton resident Robert Henry, 30, is wanted on a charge of conspiracy to kidnap.
The arrests came after more than a year of investigation, as police had little to go on. A $50,000 reward was offered for information in the case, but it won't be paid out - the arrests are the result of good, old-fashioned police work, OPP Det.-Insp. Scott Naylor said.
"Every little bit of evidence led us to another piece of evidence. There wasn't a Hallelujah moment," he said.
Chambers' mother, Nancy Logan, has been active with United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere (UMOVE), an organization of mothers of victims of crime, since her son's death. She called Wednesday's arrests "bittersweet," Naylor said.
-Torstar News Service
