Life in prison for Mississauga man convicted of 2 nightclub murders

A Mississauga man convicted of first-degree murder in the July 2022 shooting deaths of two security guards at a Vaughan nightclub has been sentenced to life in prison, police say.

Kensworth Alton Francis, 31, received two life sentences, to be served concurrently, with no eligibility for parole for 25 years, an Ontario Court judge in Newmarket determined on Friday. He was earlier found guilty by a jury of two counts of first-degree murder.

Francis was also sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for an unlawfully causing bodily harm conviction related to the same shooting, York Regional Police said in a Monday news release.

In May 2023, the Mississauga man appeared at No. 7 on Canada’s 25 Most Wanted list in connection with the July 23, 2022 murders of Tosin Amos-Arowoshegbe, 25, and Chibueze Momah, 22, who worked as security guards at the ATL Lounge on Highway 7 West in Vaughan.

They were working at the club when they were fatally shot during an altercation at about 3:30 a.m. A third person, a 20-year-old woman who was a patron at the club, was also shot, but she survived.

Francis, who authorities said earlier was living in the U.S. under an alias following the Vaughan murders, was arrested by United States Marshals in Hartford, Connecticut on March 26, 2024.

He was returned to Canada the following month to face charges in York.

U.S. Marshals said at the time members of their task force alongside marshals from Maine, and Hartford SWAT officers, had located and arrested Francis after having received a “provisional arrest request from Canada.”

In arresting the wanted man, U.S. authorities said they also recovered:

• a short-barrel assault rifle fixed with an extended magazine
• 20 rounds of 5.56 ammunition
• one .45-calibre Glock handgun and another .45-calibre Glock handgun that had been converted with a fully automatic switch
• three extended pistol magazines
• 89 rounds of .45-calibre ammunition

Photo from 2024 of Kensworth Alton Francis, of Mississauga. (Photo: U.S. Marshals Service)

Kensworth Alton Francis, of Mississauga, in an earlier photo. (Photo: York Regional Police)