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A 20-year-old man once accused of a gunpoint home invasion in Toronto is now wanted for murder in a brazen daylight homicide on Caldwell Avenue, the Citizen has learned.

Ottawa homicide detectives have charged 20-year-old Farah Handule, of Toronto, with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Hamzeh Serhan on Sept. 20.

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Handule’s whereabouts are currently unknown and he’s believed to be on the run. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Serhan was shot multiple times in the middle of the afternoon out front of Unit 30 at 1500 Caldwell Ave., an Ottawa Community Housing property.

Witnesses described the scene of the shooting as a quick encounter among many people that sent multiple young men fleeing, including the man believed to be the gunman, and mothers running to find their nearby children.

Serhan had no vital signs when police and paramedics arrived on the scene. Attempts were made to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the Civic.

His friends described him as a smart young man and an all-around athlete with dreams of becoming a surgeon, who turned to selling drugs to make money. Serhan was known to anti-gang police who had arrested him for drug charges last year. Those charges were withdrawn before he was killed.