Three Toronto-area men charged in the 2019 shooting deaths of have been sentenced for their parts in the homicides.
Terrell Philbert, 23, Thomy Baez-Eusibio, 24, and Dylan Alridge, 25, are part of a group of seven men charged in the killing of Reynolds and Van Every early on July 19, 2019, on Park Road South.
The Expositor has learned that the three men have been sentenced after pleading guilty.
Certain details of their cases are protected by a publication ban because of ongoing legal proceedings.
After the deaths of Reynolds and Van Every, police made public a clip from a video surveillance camera that showed a masked gunman running to the home’s front door and minutes later running back to a waiting vehicle. Over the next year, seven men were charged with first-degree murder.
On Dec. 20, Alridge and Baez-Eusibio were each sentenced by Justice Peter Sweeny in Superior Court after pleading guilty, with the Crown’s consent, to a lesser charge of conspiring to commit an indictable offense with a firearm.
Alridge was sentenced to 30 months and Baez-Eusibio to 29 months. With their time served counted, Alridge was left with 18 days in custody and Baez-Eusibio with 21.
On Jan. 19, Sweeny sentenced Philbert to 7 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to committing an indictable offense with a firearm.
The three men were given a long list of people they must not see, including their co-conspirators and the families of Reynolds and Van Every.
Two of the other accused, Salloum Jassem of Brant County and Malik Mbuyi of Toronto, are heading to separate trials.
The case against Nathan Howes of Brantford was nearing a conclusion but was halted by legal issues.
In April 2021, Kareem Tamir Zedan, 25, of Pickering, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of manslaughter.
Zedan’s sentencing was held secretly, excluding the public because of a “fluid investigation.” Justice Gethin Edward placed a publication ban on the proceedings and extended it further so that it couldn’t be reported until June 7, 2021.
“Although it is a basic tenet that our criminal courts be open to the public, in this case the need for the success of the ongoing investigation is paramount,” Edward said at the time.
The judge also made clear that Reynolds and Lynn Van Every were innocent victims
In 2018, the couple’s son, Roger Van Every, was charged in a large drug raid in Jerseyville. His parents each pledged $3,000 in bail and agreed to act as his sureties.
In January 2020, Van Every was released from jail and, the following month, he and Shajjad Hossain Idrish, of the Hamilton area, were charged in a triple shooting at a Brantford motel that left Brantford’s Jason David Kossatz, 42, dead and two others injured, one of them seriously.
Van Every and Idrish remain in custody, both facing first-degree murder charges and two charges of
attempted murder with a firearm.
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