{"id":15190,"date":"2025-02-05T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/jury-hears-toronto-woman-allegedly-murdered-by-ex-boyfriend-called-police-3-days-prior\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:54:08","slug":"jury-hears-toronto-woman-allegedly-murdered-by-ex-boyfriend-called-police-3-days-prior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/jury-hears-toronto-woman-allegedly-murdered-by-ex-boyfriend-called-police-3-days-prior\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury hears Toronto woman allegedly murdered by ex-boyfriend called police 3 days prior"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Just three days before 23-year-old Daniella Mallia was shot to death in a Toronto underground parking garage in August 2022, her ex-boyfriend Dylan Dowman allegedly sent her text messages threatening to kill her, prompting her to call police to ask for a restraining order.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what the jury was told on the opening day of the first-degree murder trial for Dowman in a downtown Toronto courtroom Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Assistant Crown attorney Maureen Pecknold told jurors in her opening address that Mallia met with a police constable and shared text messages sent from Dowman that read, \u201cYou still breathing because I say so\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t no coming back from death. You\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will see body-worn camera footage from three days before she was shot to death,\u201d Pecknold told the jury. \u201cYou will see she did not want to put a Black man behind bars. All she wanted is what she referred to as a restraining order. What we refer to as a peace bond. She just wanted to feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Crown said police told Mallia how to feel safe and said Dowman and Mallia were told to stop contacting one another.<\/p>\n

The jury also heard that evidence will show that only three days after Mallia called police, Dowman took an Uber from the house where he rented a room to the parkade where Mallia was gunned down on the morning of Aug. 18, 2022.<\/p>\n

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As Mallia was walking along a path towards a courtyard at 2265 Jane St., jurors heard that a man ran up behind her, grabbed her and dragged her into the underground parking garage. The man took a handgun out of a backpack and pointed it at her as Mallia tried to get away.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe blocked her path over and over again, then he shot her and continued to shoot. Police recovered six spent casings near the body and once he finished shooting, he concealed the gun, left the garage, walked down the street, got on a TTC bus and went to a nearby mall,\u201d Pecknold said.<\/p>\n

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