WATCH: Trial has started against the four accused in John Raposo's execution-style murder on a Little Italy patio. @JustineLewkowic reports pic.twitter.com/1JpL8dGsco
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The Crown prosecutor's case in the John Raposo murder trial reads like a movie plot.
Almost five years after an execution-style shooting on a crowded Little Italy patio, the trial against four men charged with first-degree murder has started at a University Ave courthouse.
Raposo was shot in the head four times at close range at the Sicilian Sidewalk Cafe in June, 2012.
He was watching a Euro Cup soccer match in the middle of the day when witnesses say a man wearing a construction vest opened fire.
The four accused sat in separate prisoners' boxes Wednesday, with nine court officers on hand and the seven men and five women who will decide their fate across the courtroom.