Hani Othman was a 16-year-old student at North Albion Collegiate Institute when he was shot and killed in Rexdale, Toronto, on Sunday, April 23, 2000. Police were called at approximately 12:13 p.m. to 246 John Garland Boulevard, where officers found Hani outside a townhouse suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to hospital but died shortly after arrival.

The killing occurred during an exceptionally violent Easter weekend in the city that saw seven shootings and two deaths. Investigators examined whether the weekend incidents were connected, but available police information does not show that Hani’s death was linked to the other shootings. Later accounts associated his death with a wider pattern of shootings in Jamestown and Rexdale involving young men connected to competing Crips-affiliated groups; secondary reporting gave Hani the nickname Egypt and noted a memorial wall honoring him and other victims.

Hani was one of six young men whose deaths prompted a special Toronto police inquiry called Project Alliance, which sought witnesses for several unresolved killings. Records do not identify any arrest, charge, prosecution, or conviction for Hani Othman’s murder, and he remains listed in the Toronto Police Service cold-case file as homicide case 16/2000. Can anyone who knew Hani or who was in the John Garland Boulevard area that afternoon share information that might help the investigation?