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Brampton man charged in Mississauga murder
The Brampton Guardian
Tuesday August 19 2008
PAM DOUGLAS
 
BRAMPTON - A Brampton man has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a friend in Mississauga Friday afternoon.

An argument in a children’s playground behind an apartment building at 1290 Rathburn Rd W., turned violent just before 6 p.m. and Farhan Ali Omar, 22, who lived in the building, was stabbed.

He was rushed to hospital where his condition deteriorated overnight and he was pronounced dead at 4:30 a.m. Saturday.

Peel police arrested Tristan Landriault, 20, near his Brampton home shortly after the stabbing.
Farhan Omar was no angel, family members said after the murder.

But they say he didn’t deserve to die, knifed three times in the back, in what they call a “moment of madness” among friends.

Relatives say Omar had gone inside to change his bloody clothes to return to the fray when he collapsed in the ground floor unit.

Farhan’s brother, Abdinoor Omar, 40, said one of Farhan’s friends went into the building during the fight, grabbed a knife from another friend’s apartment, and plunged it into Farhan’s back.

“He was stabbed one, two, three times in the back,” Omar said. “He didn’t feel too bad at first and came inside to change and then go back to the fight. But he just collapsed in blood on the floor.”
Omar said his young brother, one of 16 siblings born in Somalia, had earned top marks in school after coming to Canada in 1995.

“But things went wrong in high school. He got involved with the wrong crowd.”
He said his brother’s accused killer had visited in their apartment many times, occasionally staying overnight.

“It was just a moment of madness,” a cousin said. “He was a good boy. He was not perfect, but he was not a criminal.

“It was a simple fight. They must have trash-talked each other and then one guy decided he couldn’t take that.”
The investigation into the murder— Peel’s 18th of the year— is continuing.

Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at 905-453-3311, ext. 3205, or Peel Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

With files from Torstar Network