Boxing Day Bystander: The Murder of Jane Creba

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Episode 387: On December 26, 2005, around 5:15 p.m., there was a gunfight outside the Foot Locker store on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. Unfortunately, a fifteen-year-old girl named Jane Creba was shot and killed. She was an innocent bystander among hundreds of Boxing Day shoppers who were in the area at the time of the shooting. Sadly, she was caught in the middle of the gunfire and died from a single bullet that hit her in the back and pierced her aorta. In addition to Jane, six other people were injured in the shooting. Sources: Candlelight vigil set for tonight to remember Jane Creba | CBC NewsRobbery, fight led to Boxing Day shooting: affidavit | CBC News2008 CanLII 54975 (ON SC) | R. v. Smith | CanLII2008 ONCJ 123 (CanLII) | R. v. Woodcock et al. | CanLIIJeremiah Valentine interrogation - Police provided video | National PostJeremiah Valentine interrogation - Police provided video | YouTubeGuilty plea in Creba shootingCreba's parents describe 'tsunami of grief' after 2005 shooting | CBC News2012 ONCA 568 (CanLII) | R. v. J.S.R. | CanLII2015 ONCA 535 (CanLII) | R. v. Woodcock | CanLIICanadian Legal Information Institute | CanLIIBoxing Day shootingMan convicted in 2005 Toronto murder of Jane Creba faces first-degree murder charge in MontrealToronto Boxing Day killer granted full parole 7 months before fatal Montreal shootingGunman involved in Jane Creba Boxing Day killing arrested again, faces murder charge in Montreal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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