MANDEL: Walking timebomb with long rap sheet arrested for Leslieville bystander murder – Toronto Sun
Damian Hudson is a dangerous menace who has ignored every court order that was supposed to protect us from his criminal ways.
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Now he’s charged with second-degree murder in the July 7 Leslieville daytime shooting of innocent bystander Karolina Huebner-Makurat, and after perusal of his incredibly long criminal history dating back to 2011, it should come as no surprise.
Hudson, 28 at the time, beat an attempted murder charge in 2019 involving an eerily similar street fight and was currently on bail for yet more charges following alleged assaults in 2021 – just two years after he was sentenced to a further 15 months in prison and two years probation for the vicious Scarborough stabbing that left a man near death.
Court documents show Hudson has been convicted of defying his probation orders at least 16 times; they also show he’s been diagnosed with PTSD after he was shot five times in 2015 by unknown assailants.
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“Mr. Hudson is a repeat offender, who has committed assaults, robberies and firearms offences, although the majority of his acts of violence were committed in his earlier years,” Justice Lawrence Feldman wrote in convicting him of aggravated assaulted and weapons dangerous in the 2018 stabbing.
“It is of concern that his response to community supervision has been poor. It is aggravating that at the time of these offences, he was on two probation orders. It is disturbing that he was subject to two Weapons Prohibition Orders, the latter in 2011 for life.”
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“Disturbing” is an understatement.
That 2019 judgment offers a frightening insight into the career criminal who is described as having a long face, a tall, thin build and unique tattoos that include stars on his upper right arm, a black dragon on his right wrist and a crown between the left index finger and thumb.
On April 30, 2018, several days after a previous run-in in the neighbourhood, Narooshan Jude initiated a loud confrontation with Hudson on Kennedy Rd., pushing and yelling at him. Jude’s girlfriend stepped in between them, but Hudson reached around her to stab Jude in the chest.
It’s a miracle he didn’t die. But he was left permanently disabled.
The blow ruptured the lower chamber of the victim’s heart, leading to a full cardiac and an “anoxic brain injury” after he was without oxygen for 45 minutes. Revived at the hospital, Jude was in a coma for four weeks and hospitalized for over two months.
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According to the judge, Jude will be cognitively and functionally impaired for life.
Feldman convicted Hudson of aggravated assault but acquitted him of attempted murder. His lawyer insisted the victim was the aggressor on two separate days and had the misfortune of picking a fight with someone suffering from untreated PTSD.
The judge agreed: “It is probable, given the CAMH diagnosis, that the defendant’s disabling anxiety had some bearing on his response to Mr. Jude’s aggression.”
But it was also “troubling,” Feldman noted, that Hudson was carrying a weapon – despite a lifetime weapons prohibition – and is a repeat offender with a long rap sheet that begins in 2010 with two convictions for robbery and includes assaults, and unlawful possession of weapons and drugs.
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Still, the judge accepted the stabber’s insistence that he was a changed man after initiating counselling at CAMH, finishing his high school credits and being accepted at a community college.
“He says he is open to therapy. He asks for another chance,” Feldman wrote.
“I acknowledge his effort to better himself and grapple with his demons. I believe he has the potential to reform with professional help and family support,” the optimistic judge said, in sentencing Hudson to three-and-a-half years less 27 months of pre-trial credit.
In no time, of course, the career criminal was out – and back in trouble with the law, the same law that keeps giving him chance after chance, while more alleged victims are added to his roster, including a beloved mother in the prime of her life just walking down the street.
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THE LONG RAP SHEET OF ACCUSED LESLIEVILLE KILLER DAMAIN HUDSON
March 2, 2010
Two counts of robbery – eight months on each charge concurrent and two years probation
Sept. 8, 2011
Assault with a weapon – one year jail and three years probation
Pointing a firearm – one year concurrent
Fail to comply with a probation order – six months concurrent
Possession of firearm or ammunition – 364 days consecutive
July 12, 2013
Possession of a schedule II (marijuana) substance – one day (144 days presentence custody)
Possession of a schedule 1 substance (heroin, cocaine, opium, oxycodone, fentanyl, morphine, methamphetamine, and amphetamines) – one day concurrent
Feb. 18, 2014
Uttering threats – suspended sentence and two years probation
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2014 – allegation he beat up a fellow inmate in courthouse cells, no charges laid
2015 – (exact date unknown) survived being shot 5 times by unknown assailants
Jan. 21, 2015
Two counts of fail to comply with probation orders – one day on each charge concurrent (126 days in pre-sentence custody)
March 17, 2015
Possession of a Schedule I Substance – one day in jail and one year probation
April 29, 2015
Fail to comply with a probation order – 30 days (six days pre-sentence custody)
Possession of a Schedule II Substance, assault a peace officer, fail to comply probation – 30 days concurrent
June 23, 2015
Possession of a Schedule II Substance – one day and $75 (14 days pre-sentence custody)
Fail to comply probation – one day concurrent and $1
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May 16, 2016
Fail to comply recognizance – credit for the equivalent of 90 days pre-sentence custody
May 2, 2017
Break-and-enter and commit – two months and two years probation
Possession of property obtained by crime under $5000 – two months concurrent
Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime – two months concurrent
Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime – two months concurrent
Nine counts of fail to comply probation – 30 days on each concurrent
Possession of Schedule II Substance – six days consecutive
Possession of Schedule I Substance – six days concurrent
Aug. 30, 2019
Aggravated assault – 15 months (after the equivalent of two years in pre-sentence custody), two years probation, lifetime weapons prohibition
Possession of a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the public peace – 12 months concurrent
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