Calgary Police have now identified the man charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Natasha Farah in the Beltline over the weekend.
Police say Hussein Ibrahim, 21, has been charged with one charge of discharging a firearm recklessly.
CPS Staff Sergeant Mike Cavilla identified Ibrahim as one of the shooters involved, but they have also determined that there was more than one shooter, thus the single charge.
“We initially arrested four persons of interest, one of which is the individual we re-arrested in the early hours of today,” said Cavilla during a media conference on Wednesday. “We were able to identify the suspect that we arrested today as being one of the shooters at the scene in the early morning hours of August 23 at the intersection 11 Avenue and 1 Street S.W. Initially, we didn’t have that information or evidence. Now we do.”
He also said that two of the persons of interest have been ruled out as suspects in the shooting.
Police indicate the shots were fired by multiple firearms but the shooting was not an exchange of gunfire.
“We have confirmed that they were not shooting at each other, they are friends. They were shooting into a crowd of people, at which time the innocent victim was struck with a bullet.”
Police are awaiting the results of forensics and ballistics testing before additional charges are considered.
Ibrahim is expected to appear in court on Friday.
