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That task force is also investigating the 2016 fatal shooting of Abdi “Ajax” Jama in the parking lot of the former Suya Spot on Shillington Avenue in a dispute between two suspected gangs. Jama was himself a suspect in what remains an unsolved 2013 killing on Elgin Street. The task force is also investigating the 2011 shooting of Eric Vongviset at his home on Charleston Street and the 2009 club shooting of Mohamed “Casper” Ali at Bar 56.

Ali was shot in the stomach in an altercation that kicked off between what police suspect were two feuding gangs after a beer bottle was thrown in the club. Ali was a member of the Ledbury-Banff Crips.

Fazeli, once again behind bars, is well-known to police. In May of last year, he was among eight people arrested in a six-month investigation by provincial police and the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service called Project Coast. The drug-trafficking police operation aimed at smashing a network trafficking illegal and prescription drugs into northern aboriginal communities. It focused on the Timmins and Chapleau areas, and James Bay coastal communities, where high prices meant big profits for drug dealers.

Fazeli, then 31, was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of property obtained by crime.

Fazeli was also charged with drug trafficking after Ottawa police’s Project Ace, named after him, in 2012. The $100,000 drug bust targeted Fazeli, who was described by police informants at the time as a gang leader and the main cocaine supplier in Vanier with dreams to one day traffic to North Bay.

Thibault was also arrested in that project.

Fazeli and Thibault were also both charged with attempted murder in 2010 after a Wendover shooting that injured one man.

The task force has not yet laid charges in any of the homicides they’re probing.

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Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that police arrested the seven accused on April 19. In fact, some had arrest warrants issued for them. All were charged on April 20.