The popular video-sharing website YouTube.com has led to arrests in another GTA homicide, this time in Durham Region.
A month after posting 41 still pictures in connection to a fatal stabbing in Ajax last fall, police apprehended two people and laid murder charges.
Orin Felix, 19, was killed outside RimRock bar near Highway 401 and Harwood Avenue in the early morning hours of Sept. 1. Two others were stabbed, one in the neck.
Last month, police turned to YouTube, a move more forces are attempting to try and get younger witnesses to come forward with information.
"It was helpful in assisting us generate more interest in the case and we thank the persons who went to the website," Sgt. Paul McCurbin told the Toronto Star.
Troy Johnson-Lee, 22, of Toronto, is charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder.
Ashley Ada Owen, 22, of Ajax, is charged with obstructing police and accessory after the fact in attempted murder.
Felix became Durham's sixth homicide of 2006.
Anyone with more information is asked to contact police at youtube@drps.ca or by calling 905-579-1520 ext. 5400.
Hamilton police credit their use of YouTube last year with helping them find a suspect in a stabbing death.
In December of last year, they posted surveillance video of two men attending a concert in the city. The short video was viewed online more than 30,000 times.
Within about two weeks of the video appearing on YouTube, a 24-year-old suspect turned himself in to police.
Toronto police officers also turned to the site last month in a bid to find a missing teenage girl, Eva Ho, who has been missing since August.
