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They were complete strangers asking for directions.

According to prosecutors, the friends were looking for an after hours party in Kensington Market to continue their buddy’s birthday celebration when they asked some men standing outside a Spadina Ave. restaurant if they knew where it was.

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“Instead of an answer to his question,” said Crown attorney Kerry Hughes in her opening statement, “he was shot in the head.”

Stewart Douglas would survive the bullet fired at close range; his two friends would not be as lucky.

In the ensuing spray of at least 15 more bullets from at least two guns, Quinn Taylor, 29, and David Eminess, 26, were killed and passersby Jethro Collado and Earl McLean were injured.

Jahmal Richardson, 33, and Kyle Sparks MacKinnon, 28, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and two of aggravated assault.

Prosecutors Hughes and Susan Adams told the jury the case against the two men is circumstantial — no one will definitively point to either and recognize them as one of the shooters that early morning of Jan. 31, 2016.