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The same Ottawa police detectives who charged his brother with two counts of first-degree murder in separate homicides are now investigating the Black Friday killing of Yonis Barkhadle.

Yonis, 27, was shot multiple times, in what police are probing as a targeted attack, around 6:20 p.m. Friday in a packed South Keys Shopping Centre parking lot. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a lot on the north side of the mall. The homicide itself occurred in the CIBC parking lot next to OC Transpo’s Greenboro transit station. Yonis was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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Yonis, also known as “Yoshi,” is one of three Barkhadle brothers who are well known to police in this city.

His eldest brother Mohamad Barkhadle, a crack dealer, was charged by the Ottawa police homicide squad with strangling a 35-year-old woman inside her Burnside Avenue apartment in March 2017. The woman, whose name remains shielded by a publication ban, was killed while her two-year-old son was inside the apartment, where he remained alone for 10 days before a maintenance worker in the building discovered his mother’s body.