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A London man acquitted nine years ago in the shooting death of a Fanshawe College student trying to retrieve his stolen cellphone is one of three suspects sought in a downtown shooting last week that injured a man.
Police were alerted by hospital officials around 5 a.m. on July 21 that a man had showed up at the hospital with suspected gunshot wounds. Officers went to the hospital, where they found the man who was treated for non-life threatening injuries, police said.
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Investigators determined the shooting – the fourth in London this year – happened an hour earlier in the area of Richmond and Clarence streets.
Police have obtained arrest warrants for two men and are asking the public to help identify a third suspect, London police said Wednesday.
Mohamed Sail, 35, and Dean Robert Dickieson, 31, both of London, are charged with occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm and possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a probation order. Sail is additionally charged with discharging a firearm with intent to wound or endanger life, assault with a weapon, aggravated assault and use of a firearm during the commission of an indictable offence.
Sail was charged with second-degree murder in the June 14, 2014, death of Jeremy Cook, 18, who was fatally shot while trying to retrieve his phone after leaving it in a taxi.
The Fanshawe College student from Brampton had tracked his cellphone to a fast food restaurant on Highbury Avenue, where he and his sister approached a vehicle driven by Muhab Sultan with Sail in the passenger seat. Sultan took off and Cook clung to the side of the car as it drove to a nearby plaza parking lot, where Cook was shot. Sultan, 23, died two weeks later in the Rideau River in Ottawa while fleeing police.
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A jury ultimately found Sail, who spent two years in pre-trial custody, not guilty of second-degree murder.
Sail was one of four people charged in September 2021 after London police searched three homes, seizing cocaine, crystal meth and fentanyl valued at more than $160,000, along with $20,000 cash and other items, police said at the time. The case remains before the Superior Court of Ontario and a trail confirmation hearing is scheduled for Sept. 18.
In the July 21 shooting, police are also searching for a third suspect, who is described, a Black man with a slender build and shoulder-length dreadlock hair.
Investigators released an image of the man Wednesday, along with photos of Sail and Dickieson, and asked the public for help locating them.
Sail is a Black men with a medium build who is six feet one inch tall and weighs about 220 pounds. He has brown eyes, short black hair and a black goatee.
Dickieson is white, five feet seven inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. He has a medium build, blue eyes, short brown hair and brown scruffy facial hair.
“If seen, members of the public are reminded not to approach these people and to call 911 immediately, as they are considered armed and dangerous,” Const. Matt Dawson said.
There have been four cases of gunfire in London this year, resulting in three people injured, compared to 20 incidents in the same time period last year.
dcarruthers@postmedia.com
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