The second day of deliberations began Thursday in a Toronto murder trial in which the accused, unbeknownst to the jury, is charged in a second murder as well.

Nine women and three men are deliberating the fate of Shakeil Wheatle, charged with the first-degree murder of Daniel Davis in July 2012.

Jurors were not told that Wheatle is also charged with the murder of Marvin Engelbrecht, who police said was chased up a driveway and shot dead while walking his dog a few months after — and just up the street from — the Davis homicide.

While the jurors heard bits of information about other shootings — mostly during the testimony of a young woman whose own charges were withdrawn after she gave a statement to police — they were not told in detail about the wider police project that Wheatle and that young woman were swept up in.

Project Sugar Horse culminated in 2013 with the arrests of eight people who were charged in connection with a rash of shootings across Toronto, including four homicides.

Police at the time described the accused as a group of allegedly like-minded, trigger-happy individuals. The Davis and Engelbrecht homicides were each described by the since-retired boss of the Homicide Squad, Staff Insp. Greg McLane, as "a random act of violence."

In the last day of evidence in the Davis trial, the jury was told that Wheatle's co-accused, Jerome Bent, had already been found guilty of the crime. They were not told that when Bent pleaded guilty to killing Davis last year, he also pleaded guilty to another murder — that of Delano Coombs, who was ambushed with a burst of gunfire outside a Dundas St. W. townhouse complex two months before Davis was killed.

Dellan McMorris, also swept up in Project Sugar Horse, was later convicted of the Coombs homicide as well.

Among the witnesses Wheatle jurors heard from was a man who used to be a friend of Wheatle's brother. The man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, agreed to act as a police agent, secretly recording a conversation in which Wheatle allegedly detailed his role in the murder.

Testifying in his own defence, Wheatle later said the confession was not genuine and that he had been recounting details that were given to him by someone else who had intimate knowledge of the shooting.

Jurors also watched a video that showed co-accused Bent confessing to and detailing the murder to the same police agent.