Wood Buffalo RCMP are remaining tight lipped about the arrest of a local man wanted in the murder of Anthony Smith, a 21-year-old Toronto man who allegedly appeared in a video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.

According to Toronto police, 23-year-old Hanad Mohamed was arrested in Fort McMurray on May 24, charged with the murder of Smith. Smith was gunned down in downtown Toronto on March 28, while a second individual, 19-year-old Muhammad Khattak, was injured in the arm and back.

Mohamed is scheduled to appear in a Toronto court on Friday.

The Today attempted to learn details related to the search warrant police had on Mohamed. However, a court clerk in Fort McMurray said details behind the RCMP’s ITO (Information to Obtain) application for a search warrant has been blocked from the public.

Constable Christina Wilkins of the Wood Buffalo RCMP would not comment on why investigators sealed these documents, although she admitted this was rare. However, she said this information is usually restricted when there are concerns about the safety of individuals involved in the investigation.

Wilkins would also not explain how the RCMP knew Mohamed was in Fort McMurray, nor would she reveal if the Wood Buffalo RCMP had any previous encounters with him.

The silence from local police has also frustrated members of the local Somali community.

"We have spent all day trying to find out who he is, but we have heard nothing from the police about this investigation," says Ujeer Ahmed, president of the Somali-Canadian Association of Fort McMurray. “None of our members know who he is. We don’t know why he was here or what he’s been doing.”

At least one member of Fort McMurray’s Somali community, numbering approximately 3,000, knew Mohamed, but not on a personal level.

“I don’t know if he worked out on site in the oilsands, or if he was a drug dealer or learning a trade,” says one Fort McMurray man. Out of concern for his safety, the Today chose not to name the individual. The source says he would regularly see Mohamed walking in the downtown area and may have had mutual friends in Toronto.

“He seems like a regular person, I’d sometimes say ‘Hi’ if I passed him on the street, he’d wave back or just scowl, giving a tough guy look” he said. “It wouldn’t surprise me if he was involved in drugs, though.”

In early May, the American gossip website Gawker and The Toronto Star published stories claiming Toronto drug dealers had shown reporters a video of Ford smoking crack.

A widely distributed image purports to show Ford with his arm around Smith, holding a beer while extending his middle finger.

Ford and his brother, city councillor Doug Ford, have denied the video exists.

There are two other men also posing with Ford in the photo. The two individuals are unnamed, but a QMI Agency source claims one of them is Khattak.

Another man, 23-year-old Nisar Hashimi, turned himself in to Toronto police on April 4. He has been charged with first-degree murder in the Smith shooting. Hashimi also faces attempted murder charges for shooting Khattak.

-With additional reporting by Irene Thomaidis