Two Toronto-area men are on trial for first-degree murder in the 2011 death of a Manitoba woman found in the city's Port Lands area.
Leanne Freeman, 23, was found on Unwin Avenue on Nov. 29, 2011, with a single gunshot wound to the back of her head. Emergency crews rushed her to hospital, where she later succumbed to her injuries.
Her clothing and other personal belongings were discovered by a local business owner in a commercial dumpster about a 20-minute drive from where she was found.
Freeman was a drifter from Winnipeg whose life had changed drastically in the months leading up to her death. According to her brother, Freeman became addicted to drugs and she worked in the sex trade after her mother died of cancer.
Robert Henry Beauregard and Johnathan Phillip Ash have been charged in connection with Freeman's death. Police initially charged Ash with accessory after the fact to murder, but his charge was upgraded to first-degree murder in 2012.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Tamara Cherry
