Militant admits giving teen gun used to kill journalist
The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario)
January 23, 2007 Tuesday
Final Edition
A nationalist militant convicted in a 2004 bomb attack at a McDonald’s
restaurant has confessed to inciting last week’s slaying of an ethnic
Armenian journalist, police said yesterday.
Yasin Hayal told police officers he provided a gun and money to
the teenager who is suspected of carrying out Friday’s shooting,
a newspaper reported, citing police records.
The teenager, Ogun Samast, was also arrested over the weekend along
with several other people and has confessed to fatally shooting the
journalist, according to a chief prosecutor.
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