The busy mall is where Jamar Jacque-Frame did his hunting on a bitterly cold November week in 2023.
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Frame → do → 2023
Eighteen years old, six-foot-five, he loomed above the cars.
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he → loom → cars
Jacque-Frame fancied himself a stylish fellow — today he’d chosen a pair of red and purple high-top shoes.
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he → fancy → shoes
With a buddy, he walked around.
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he → walk → buddy
Dinner hour; it was dark, and a cool wind blew between the cars.
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wind → blow → cars
One vehicle parked on a distant row caught their eye.
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vehicle → park → eye
The driver was in it, which meant the keys were in it.
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keys → mean → it
Jacque-Frame already had a record for serious crimes.
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Frame → have → crimes
A dropout from Grade 10, he’d aspired to be a chef, but despite a certificate in culinary studies, he’d bounced between jobs.
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he → aspire → jobs
As the next few days revealed, Jacque-Frame was invested in the world of carjacking.
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Frame → reveal → carjacking
He just wasn’t very good at it — though his actions would cause a great deal of anguish to his victims.
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actions → cause → victims
Most often they happen in a mall or outside a restaurant.
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they → happen → restaurant
He and his now-wife were approached outside an Etobicoke movie theatre by three men who arrived in a black Honda Civic.
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who → approach → Civic
Armed with two handguns and a knife, they demanded the keys to his black Range Rover, then drove off, the Honda following behind.
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Honda → arm → Rover
Two of the men were caught, but prosecutors withdrew the case, citing no reasonable prospect of conviction.
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prosecutors → catch → conviction
That was the year a surge in carjackings made headlines.
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surge → make → headlines
The next year, 2023, Jacque-Frame was caught and charged with six carjackings over five days in November.
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Frame → catch → November
His crime spree began in a homeowner’s driveway, in the Stonegate-Queensway neighbourhood in south Etobicoke.
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spree → begin → Etobicoke
Edward Bloomer happened to be standing outside his house on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 10, at 2 p.m. His wife’s white 2020 BMW X5 was parked in the driveway.
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X5 → happen → driveway
“Give me the keys to the BMW,” Jacque-Frame yelled, walking up with another man who has never been identified.
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who → give → man
Bloomer turned to get away.
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Bloomer → turn → ?
Jacque-Frame tried to grab the keys from Bloomer’s pocket.
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Frame → try → pocket
Unsuccessful, he took out a pepper spray and fired it at Bloomer, who ran towards his house and got inside.
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who → take → house
Jacque-Frame never got the keys or the car, but Bloomer later told a court the incident left both him and his family, who were inside their house, rattled by the “brazen assault” in broad daylight.
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who → get → daylight
“For decades, I have lived in this quiet and tranquil neighbourhood where my children have also grown up.
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children → live → neighbourhood
I used to come out to do gardening, clean the yard, without ever thinking twice about it,” Bloomer told court.
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Bloomer → use → court
That changed after the attack.
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That → change → attack
“We are constantly looking over our shoulder and checking the surrounding area every time we walk out of the house or are returning home.”
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we → look → house
Jacque-Frame gave up on the driveway thefts.
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Frame → give → thefts
The next day, Saturday, just after 7 p.m., he and another man headed to Yorkdale mall.
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he → head → mall
They were not dressed for the bitter cold, just a light jacket.
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They → dress → cold
This is when he spotted the Lamborghini Urus in the lot.
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he → spot → lot
It belonged to Malkiat Sekon.
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It → belong → Sekon
Toronto Police statistics reveal Yorkdale is one of the city’s most popular spots for thieves — in the last five years there have been 386 cars stolen from the parking lot, including 17 by carjacking.
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Yorkdale → reveal → carjacking
“Get out of the car right now,” Jacque-Frame yelled, wrenching open the driver’s door of the Lamborghini.
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Frame → get → Lamborghini
His partner opened the other door, reached in and sprayed Sekon in the face with pepper spray.
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partner → open → spray
Jacque-Frame let Sekon take his child, and Sekon wrapped his coat around his son and ran to the mall entrance.
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Sekon → let → entrance
Both men roared off around the lot, went around a corner and crashed the roughly 650-horsepower SUV, then ran off.
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men → roar → SUV
Detectives were able to get DNA off the Lamborghini.
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Detectives → get → Lamborghini
In a victim impact statement, Sekon said the terrifying attack affected his son’s mind “deeply.”
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attack → say → mind
…and 106 more, not listed.
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