Friends devastated after 2 Nigerian men killed in Vaughan nightclub shooting
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Friends of two men who were killed in what police believe was a targeted shooting in Vaughan, Ont., over the weekend say they are devastated.
Around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, officers responded to calls from a nightclub called the ATL Lounge near Highway 7 and Keele Street. Officers found two men and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds after an altercation at the club. Both men died at the scene. The woman is in stable condition in hospital. The suspect in the shooting remains at large.
On Monday afternoon, police identified the men who died as Tosin Amos-Arowoshegbe, 25, of Toronto and Chibueze Momah, 22, of Mississauga.
Investigators say they were security guards at the club and the woman, 20, was a patron.
Friends of the two men told CBC News they are from Nigeria.
Michael Egere says he was a mentor to Amos-Arowoshegbe in a Nigerian high school in 2006.
"That's how we became close, I met his family," he told CBC News from Ottawa, where he lives.
"In high school he was very soft, very sweet ... kind, always laughing and smiling. People really loved him."
Egere says he graduated in 2008 and did not see Amos-Arowoshegbe again until late last year when they met at a party in Canada. He learned then that Amos-Arowoshegbe was to complete post graduate studies last month and was planning to continue his education here.
Egere says he saw an article on Saturday about a shooting at a nightclub, but did not think much of it until his wife later told him that one of her friends said Egere knows one of the victims.
He says after his wife sent him the instagram profile, "I saw the photo and I was just speechless for like five minutes. She kept asking me 'Are you OK?' I didn't want to talk. I couldn't say anything."
Egere says Amos-Arowoshegbe got his own apartment in Toronto two weeks ago and had invited him to stay there this coming weekend.
"I was like, there is no way this guy that I just hung out with three weeks ago is gone," he said.
"I just kept on looking at his photo. I broke down for a good 30 minutes, I just broke down."
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