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A Toronto neurosurgeon facing first-degree murder in the death of his physician wife, Doctor Mohammed Shamji, has been remanded in police custody until his next court appearance on Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. Dr. Shamji appeared in court at Old City Hall on Saturday morning and briefly spoke affirmatively when asked by the judge whether he understood the proceedings.
The body of 40-year-old Elana Fric Shamji was discovered near a roadway in Kleinburg on Thursday afternoon and police later arrested the suspect from a coffee shop in the area of Lakeshore Road East and Highway 10 in Mississauga on Friday afternoon. According to Det. Sgt. Steve Ryan, investigators believe Shamji was killed in her home, located in North York, sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning and the cause of death was strangulation and blunt force trauma. Shamji and her husband had three children together, according to police.
A statement issued by the Interim Chief Medical Officer of Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, Dr. Tom Chan, mentioned on Saturday afternoon that he was “shocked and saddened” by Shamji’s death. He alleged that “we send our condolences to her family and friends,” adding that “we will be working with our team in the Department of Family and Community Medicine to have physicians ready to care for her patients.” Whereas a statement issued by Ontario Medical Association President, Virginia Walley, stated that Shamji was a “talented family physician who was in many efforts to improve the health-care system.” She said that “Ontario’s doctors are a close knit community, and we are all stunned by the tragic news of the untimely death of Dr. Elana Fric-Shamji.”
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