A suspect who was wanted in connection with a 2022 lounge shooting in Vaughan that left two people d£ad has been arrested in the United States, CP24 is reporting.
York Regional Police said Thursday that Kensworth Alton Francis, 29, of Mississauga was taken into custody by U.S. marshals in Hartford, Connecticut earlier this week on March 26.
Police have been looking for him for two years since a d£adly shooting at ATL Lounge on Highway 7 on July 23, 2022. Officers responded to the lounge at around 3:30 a.m. and found three victims with gunshot wounds. Two of them — 25-year-old Tosin Amos-Arowoshegbe and 22-year-old Chibueze Momah — di£d from their inj¥ries. Both men were security guards at the lounge. A 20-year-old woman who was attending the lounge was inj¥red, but survived.
“Members of the York Regional Police Homicide Unit have been actively working the investigation and partnered with the BOLO (Be On the Look Out) Program, the RCMP INTERPOL Fugitive Apprehension Support Team and the United States Marshals Service in effort to locate the suspect,” police said in a news release, thanking the other services.
Francis is facing two charges of first-degree m¥rder and one charge of attempted m¥rder. According to the police, Investigators are now working with the Ministry of the Attorney General to extradite him to York Region.
