Date of publication: March 29, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 3 minutes reading • 12 comments London police have released this image of two suspects in the death of a nurse in London in September 2021 at her luxury mansion in north west London.
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Investigators believe the two men who shot a nurse on the way to her home in north-west London last fall traveled from the Toronto area and fled London immediately after the murder.
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Lynda Marques, 30, was fatally shot while parked on the street of her luxury home at 2229 Wateroak Dr., northwest of Fanshawe Park and Wonderland, just before 8pm on September 10, 2021. No arrests have been made in the case – one of the two unsolved homicides in the city over the past decade – but police released new information on Tuesday, including surveillance footage of suspected gunmen. Investigators found the suspects’ black Volkswagen Jetta, which was later pulled 18 miles from the crime scene on Meadowlilly Road South, had been stolen from Scarborough five days before the deadly shooting, police said Tuesday.
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Investigators believe the men involved in the killings are from the greater Toronto area and traveled to London on September 9 and fled back to the Toronto area the next day, shortly after Marques was killed, police said. Police also posted a picture showing two men, both holding pistols and wearing dark clothes and masks, seen running towards Marques’s home. On the road behind them is the black Jetta. Police did not say where the pictures were taken, but Marques’s house is equipped with several surveillance cameras. Investigators have renewed their call for public information about the identities of the two gunmen and the Jetta’s movements between 9 and 10 September. Anyone with information should call London Police at 519-661-5670.
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Police described the killings as targeted killings, but Marques’s family and friends wondered why a nurse with a young child, without a criminal record, would be the focus of two gunmen. Marques, who studied nursing at Centennial College and later at Ryerson University, worked at St. Louis General Hospital. Thomas Elgin before starting her own medical aesthetic business in London, making cosmetic filler injections and other surgeries as a medical aesthetic nurse. She lived in a two-story house in the Fox Hollow neighborhood of London with her partner, Ali Bhatti, and their one-year-old son. Lynda Marques was fatally shot by two gunmen in a parked car outside her home in north-west London on September 10. Bhatti, 28, has been in jail since his arrest on Jan. 6 when police say they pulled him near Wonderland and Farrah streets and seized two loaded pistols from the vehicle. Investigators later searched the home on Wateroak Drive, where they seized cocaine and other drugs, police said.
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Bhatti is charged with 14 counts of felony criminal mischief, including possession of a firearm, negligent possession of a firearm and possession of a restricted or prohibited firearm, possession of a firearm known to have its serial number violated and possession of a firearm. On January 12, Peace Judge Frank Leddy denied bail to Bhatti, who is being held at the Central North Correctional Center in Penetanguishene. He has been there since his arrest. Bhatti, who was on bail at the time of his arrest earlier this year, also faces drug charges for trafficking in a separate case scheduled for November 22 at the Supreme Court of Justice. [email protected] Twitter.com/DaleatLFPress London police guard the scene of a shooting at 2229 Wateroak Dr. in north-west London where Lynda Marques, a nurse, was killed. The photo was taken on September 10, 2021. (Mike Hensen / The London Free Press)
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