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firefighters battle a fire at a bungalow on Rossland Avenue in October. A woman who was injured in the arson has died in hospital in Toronto. (Ottawa Fire Services)</p></div><button type="button" aria-label="Load image titled: Image | Ottawa firefighters extinguishing arson at Rossland Avenue bungalow">Load Image</button><noscript><div class="embed_nojavascript__ChOKD"><a href="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7357550.1729427489!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ottawa-firefighters-extinguishing-arson-at-rossland-avenue-bungalow.jpg?im=Resize%3D800" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" aria-label="Open image in new tab (external link) titled: Image | Ottawa firefighters extinguishing arson at Rossland Avenue bungalow">Open Image in New Tab <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="-125 -125 600 450" class="externallinkicon_fill__I8y_f" height="1em" width="1em"><title>(external link)</title><path d="M216 12.1v24c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h74L194.1 156c-2.3 2.3-3.6 5.3-3.6 8.5s1.3 6.2 3.6 8.5l16.9 16.9c2.3 2.3 5.3 3.6 8.5 3.6s6.3-1.3 8.5-3.6L335.9 82l.1 74c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h24c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12V12c0-6.6-5.4-12-12-12L228 .1c-6.6 0-12 5.4-12 12z"></path><path d="M288 192v132c0 6.6-5.4 12-12 12H60c-6.6 0-12-5.4-12-12V108c0-6.6 5.4-12 12-12h132V48H12C5.4 48 0 53.4 0 60v312c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h312c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12V192h-48z"></path></svg></a><style type="text/css">.embed_embed__gX4nW button { display: none; }</style></div></noscript></div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">A woman who was seriously injured when her rented bungalow was firebombed in October has died in the burn unit of a Toronto hospital, CBC News has learned.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">In a news release Friday afternoon, Ottawa police said 51-year-old Ottokie Kelly died Thursday. Her death marks Ottawa's 24th homicide victim of the year.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">The arson at 95 Rossland Ave. happened around 3:45 a.m. on Oct. 8. Firefighters arrived to find two people on the front lawn who had escaped the blaze.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Paramedics treated one man and one woman for burns and smoke inhalation, saying the woman was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">CBC News has previously reported that police were investigating the arson <a href="/lite/story/1.7357541">for connections to a notorious international crime family</a>.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">A few doors down Rossland Avenue is another home once owned by alleged cocaine trafficker Hisham "Terry" Alkhalil, one of five gangster brothers from the same family. He sold that property, at least on paper, in 2021. </div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr"><div class="embed_embed__gX4nW" role="figure" data-pw="imageEmbed"><div class="embed_embedTextBox__uJWse"><p class="embed_imageTitle__8UFmA">Image | The Alkhalil Brothers</p><p class="embed_caption__4hiVl">Caption: Police allege Nabil Alkhalil, left, and Robby Alkhalil, right, have both used genuine Canadian passports that were fraudulently obtained. All three brothers including Terry Alkhalil, centre, have faced cocaine trafficking charges. (thedirty.com)</p></div><button type="button" aria-label="Load image titled: Image | The Alkhalil Brothers">Load Image</button><noscript><div class="embed_nojavascript__ChOKD"><a href="https://i.cbc.ca/1.2643090.1732281497!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/the-alkhalil-brothers.jpg?im=Resize%3D800" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" aria-label="Open image in new tab (external link) titled: Image | The Alkhalil Brothers">Open Image in New Tab <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="-125 -125 600 450" class="externallinkicon_fill__I8y_f" height="1em" width="1em"><title>(external link)</title><path d="M216 12.1v24c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h74L194.1 156c-2.3 2.3-3.6 5.3-3.6 8.5s1.3 6.2 3.6 8.5l16.9 16.9c2.3 2.3 5.3 3.6 8.5 3.6s6.3-1.3 8.5-3.6L335.9 82l.1 74c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h24c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12V12c0-6.6-5.4-12-12-12L228 .1c-6.6 0-12 5.4-12 12z"></path><path d="M288 192v132c0 6.6-5.4 12-12 12H60c-6.6 0-12-5.4-12-12V108c0-6.6 5.4-12 12-12h132V48H12C5.4 48 0 53.4 0 60v312c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h312c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12V192h-48z"></path></svg></a><style type="text/css">.embed_embed__gX4nW button { display: none; }</style></div></noscript></div></div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">But even after the sale, in February 2022 a longtime gang associate of the Alkhalils was found hiding out in the home and was arrested by RCMP. </div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">The home at 95 Rossland Ave. is owned by a numbered company registered to Neveen Alkhalil, confirmed by police sources with extensive knowledge of the Alkhalil criminal organization as a sister of the Alkhalil brothers.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">The address of that numbered company is a Kanata North townhouse registered to their mother and father.</div><h2 class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Who are the Alkhalils?</h2><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">The Alkhalil crime family has ties to British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. They are synonymous in the criminal underworld with money, influence and violence.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Two of the five brothers were murdered in gangland disputes in British Columbia in the early 2000s. A third was killed in Mexico in 2018. The youngest escaped from a federal prison while awaiting trial for murder and remains at large. </div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">According to eldest brother Nabil Alkhalil's 2011 immigration decision, the family came to Canada in 1990, landing at Montréal-Mirabel International Airport and making a refugee protection claim.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Family patriarch Hossein Alkhalil fled Palestine during the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, travelling first to Lebanon and then to Saudi Arabia before coming to Canada during the Gulf War with his wife Soumaya Azzam and their children.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">In 2004, after the death of two brothers, the family moved to Ottawa.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr"><div class="embed_embed__gX4nW" role="figure" data-pw="imageEmbed"><div class="embed_embedTextBox__uJWse"><p class="embed_imageTitle__8UFmA">Image | BOLO TOP 25</p><p class="embed_caption__4hiVl">Caption: RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald stands next to a wanted sign for fugitive Rabih Alkhalil. (Ben Nelms/CBC)</p></div><button type="button" aria-label="Load image titled: Image | BOLO TOP 25">Load Image</button><noscript><div class="embed_nojavascript__ChOKD"><a href="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6620639.1729427834!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/bolo-top-25.jpg?im=Resize%3D800" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" aria-label="Open image in new tab (external link) titled: Image | BOLO TOP 25">Open Image in New Tab <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="-125 -125 600 450" class="externallinkicon_fill__I8y_f" height="1em" width="1em"><title>(external link)</title><path d="M216 12.1v24c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h74L194.1 156c-2.3 2.3-3.6 5.3-3.6 8.5s1.3 6.2 3.6 8.5l16.9 16.9c2.3 2.3 5.3 3.6 8.5 3.6s6.3-1.3 8.5-3.6L335.9 82l.1 74c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h24c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12V12c0-6.6-5.4-12-12-12L228 .1c-6.6 0-12 5.4-12 12z"></path><path d="M288 192v132c0 6.6-5.4 12-12 12H60c-6.6 0-12-5.4-12-12V108c0-6.6 5.4-12 12-12h132V48H12C5.4 48 0 53.4 0 60v312c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h312c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12V192h-48z"></path></svg></a><style type="text/css">.embed_embed__gX4nW button { display: none; }</style></div></noscript></div></div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">In 2014, police seized the Rossland Avenue home registered to Terry Alkhalil during construction in an operation called Project Anarchy.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Police seized 24.5 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $12.5 million, four guns and the home, whose value was pegged at $1.2 million. The charges against Terry Alkhalil were ultimately stayed after the case took too long to get to court.</div><h2 class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Notorious gangster found hiding out in home</h2><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">The following year, RCMP arrested Hells Angel Damion Ryan, an Alkhalil family associate and fellow gangster found hiding out in the former Alkhalil home.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Police have described Ryan as "likely one of most prolific organized crime members in our country."</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">RCMP allege that bust dismantled an international Mexican drug smuggling ring.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Court records allege Ryan was found in the former Akhalil home where guns were found stored inside the kitchen, family room, laundry room and office.</div><div class="article_segment__aglub" dir="ltr">Months later, Rabih Alkhalil escaped from a B.C. prison while awaiting murder charges. He remains at large at the top of Canada's most wanted list, and is believed to be abroad.</div><b>Corrections:</b><ul><li><span>Ottokie Kelly was Ottawa's 24th homicide victim of the year, but her death was not Ottawa's 24th homicide case.</span> <i>November 23, 2024 6:02 PM</i></li></ul></article><div class="relatedlinks_relatedLinks__Lwiwf"><h2 class="relatedlinks_title__dyv0R">More Stories Like This</h2><p class="relatedlinks_description__CsX2q">The related links below are generated automatically based on the story you’ve just read.</p><p>Loading...</p></div></div></main><footer class="footer_footer-container__pnXb5"><div class="footer_disclaimer__uBzdR">CBC Lite is a low-bandwidth website. 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