Man sought in shooting death has history of violent behaviour
Date: Jan 9, 2007 9:56 AM
PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun
DATE: 2007.01.09
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PAGE: 8
ILLUSTRATION: photo of CHARLTON GREEN Out on parole
BYLINE: ROB LAMBERTI, TORONTO SUN
WORD COUNT: 335

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Hunt for road rage killer
Man sought in shooting death has history of violent behaviour

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A man wanted for a suspected road rage murder was on statutory release
with a lifetime ban from possessing weapons because of a violent history
of using firearms during robberies.

Marvin Charlton Green, 28, is wanted on a first-degree murder warrant
for the Dec. 3 shooting death of Dennis Kwame Oppong, 26.

The confrontation on Front St. W. at Spadina Ave. between two men was
apparently over a driving dispute between the victim and a carload of
people including the suspect.

“We think it may have been a dispute over making that turn” at Spadina
and Front at around 3 a.m., Det. Ian Briggs said. Traffic at the time
was bumper-to-bumper, he said.

“We do have witnesses that describe shouting back and forth,” Briggs
said.

He said the suspect was among a group of people in one car, while Oppong
was alone. The victim’s car was found parked on Front St. while the
suspect fled in the other vehicle.

Oppong was the second son lost to his mom within 1 1/2 years. His
brother Mark died April, 2005 of a viral infection.

Detectives are now beginning to suspect Green may have fled the country
and are expected to begin inquiries with foreign police forces,
including in the Caribbean.

Green is well known to Toronto Police.

In June, 1997, he and others robbed the Bank of Montreal at Jane St. and
Sheppard Ave., with a sawed-off shotgun.

He was captured before the end of the year and was sentenced in July,
1998 to 30 months in jail plus seven months pretrial custody.

While on a release program in August, 2000, Green robbed a victim at
gunpoint on Yonge St. south of Gerrard St.

He was sentenced to 70 months in jail in 2002.

Records indicate Green was placed on statutory release on Dec. 8, 2005,
and was to remain on the program until Nov. 20, 2007, said Carol
Sparling, spokesman with the National Parole Board in Kingston.

She said extra conditions were placed on Green before he was released to
abstain from drugs and stay away from anyone involved in criminal
activity.

‘OLD HABITS’

“Your previous release history is dismal,” parole board documents note.

“You were back to your old habits, hiding from authorities, selling
drugs and living on the street.”

According to the documents, Green treated his sentence for the bank
robbery as “a big joke” and he described the 2000 street mugging as “a
drug deal that went wrong rather than a robbery.”

Green, who was stabbed in a prison assault, gave another inmate a black
eye and bloody nose in an assault after a dispute involving a phone
book, parole documents say.

Oppong, meanwhile, was straightening himself out after pleading guilty
to the 1996 stabbing murder of Ismael Spence, 15, outside the Kennedy
TTC station.

Anyone with information about Green is asked to call police at
416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

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