Ali Mohummad died from wounds to chest

Possibly stabbed before running, court hears

In the cellphone video, Ali Mohummad can be seen running out of a Limeridge Road West parking lot as two unknown people chase after him.

It’s the last time the 19-year-old was seen alive.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Pickup was shown six seconds of the video in court Monday, at the trial of two teens charged with second-degree murder in Mohummad’s death.

Is it possible he received two stab wounds just moments before that? Could Mohummad have continued to run for approximately100 metres before collapsing?

Assistant Crown attorney Alannah Grady asked those questions of the pathologist.

Yes, answered Pickup.

“I’ve seen people shot in the heart and run 200 metres or more,” he said.

In this case, Mohummad was stabbed twice in the upper, right side of his chest. The weapon travelled in between ribs and penetrated his right lung both times, Pickup said.

The injury caused Mohummad’s lung to collapse and significant blood loss. Both wounds were potentially lethal, but wouldn’t have immediately incapacitated him, he said.

During the autopsy, 100 millilitres of blood was found in Mohummad’s chest cavity — not enough to cause death — but the doctor said it’s likely he bled out through his wounds into the grass, where he was found lying on his right side.

Court has already heard that Mohummad was stabbed in a brawl that began in a plaza parking lot on Limeridge, near Garth Street, after 1 a.m. on July 19, 2020. His older brother Hamza Chaudry called his brother and friends to Hamilton that night amid a growing conflict with two 17-year-old Hamilton boys.

Chaudry’s group, who were mostly from Mississauga, said they believed the meeting was just to talk out the problem, which began over “disrespect” involving a young woman earlier that summer. That group have told the court they were ambushed by at least 20 guys.

Multiple people were hurt in the melee, including several people stabbed and others hit with rocks or asphalt. The two charged teens, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, were hit by a car.

Four hours later, police found Mohummad’s body, about 100 metres away from the parking lot, down a hill and next to a fence near 11 Kendale Ct.

Royland Moriah, defence attorney for one of the accused, objected to the forensic pathologist being asked about the parking lot scenario, arguing it was outside the doctor’s expertise. But the question was allowed.

If Mohummad was potentially stabbed in the parking lot, that opens up the possibilities of who inflicted the deadly wounds.

A third teen, also charged with seconddegree murder, is being tried separately.

The doctor could not say exactly when or where the stabbing happened.

Pickup did not perform the autopsy in this case; the doctor who did was unavailable for the trial. Pickup reviewed the case and in some areas disagreed with the original doctor’s findings, including about the nature of some small bruises and marks on Mohummad’s body. Pickup concluded some of them likely occurred after death and he believes some were insect bites, perhaps from lying in the grass.

Pickup said these differences of opinion were not significant and didn’t relate to cause of death.