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the day of her sentencing, saying amid her tears: "I stand here in front of you, the honourable judge, and the court to acknowledge and accept consequences of my thoughtless actions in which I’ve caused harm, fear and pain to others. I only hope the people affected by this will be able to some day forgive me". Cotrell had moved to
Edmonton, where she worked as a personal trainer and in a tattoo shop, and had ceased her gangland ties. The tattoo reading "Barzan" on the back of her neck had been replaced with a tattoo of a butterfly. In December 2015, Ali, described by the judge at his trial as "a mercenary for hire who was prepared to shoot a person for money and put other people at very serious risk", was convicted of aggravated assault.
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February 15, she texted him "that guy" (Willock) was at the T-Barz strip club. Tilli-Choli texted back: "OK, who is he with?" Cotrell replied: "Losers. Five guys and some girls". Tilli-Choli in turn texted: "Ok, I'll be there in 10 minutes". Willock together with his friend Fraser Sunderland and a woman who remains unidentified had just gotten into a Power Rover automobile in the T-Barz parking lot when a group in a SUV led by Tilli-Choli pulled up beside them and opened fire, causing Sunderland to speed away. The SUV followed the Power Rover and Tilli-Choli continued to shoot at them, causing Sunderland to take a bullet in his left shoulder. Sunderland was badly wounded while Willock survived unhurt.
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window...He starts aiming his weapon at the vehicles and he's starts firing at the
Cherokee...Barzan was able to see into the window and said 'holy shit it's a girl!'. He stopped firing". Leaving King wounded in her car, Tilli-Choli then started shooting at the Porsche driven by Barber, pumping between 6-10 shots into his vehicle and killing him.
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concert was being held, hoping to kill the Bacon brothers who were attending the concert. Ly was overheard on videotape telling Tilli-Choli to "unload the whole thing" (i.e fire the entire round of his AK-47) if he saw the Bacon brothers. The police arrested both Tilli-Choli and Ly before the attempt
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On 13 February 2009, Cotrell texted Tilli-Choli: "I’m in love with you, I’ll do what you asked earlier. I want to spend tonight with you so I can wake up with my love on
Valentines". On the night of 15 February 2009, she texted him after seeing Tyler Willock of the Red Scorpions at the T-Barz strip
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A member of the UN gang who later turned Crown's evidence known only as C. due to a court order testified in 2017 that Tilli-Choli used his AK-47 assault rifle to shoot up the cars driven by King and Barber. C. testified on 8 May 2017: "Barzan starts lowering the rear window, the rear driver's side
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