The man accused of pulling a handgun out of his pants in the back of a Toronto police cruiser is suing the city, police services board and others for $2 million for failing to prevent him from being shot in a separate, high-profile incident, according to court documents.Earlier this week, several media outlets broadcast or posted online in-car police surveillance video capturing an impaired driving suspect squirming in the back of a moving cop car as he tried to extricate the pistol, prompting Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders to announce a two-pronged investigation into the circumstances and the leak.Ali Showbeg, age 38, of Mississauga, faces nine criminal charges including eight firearm-related offences, including possessing a gun contrary to a prohibition order. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday. In 2006, he was convicted of multiple charges including four firearm-related offences and drug trafficking.Showbeg is the plaintiff in a lawsuit that contains sweeping allegations that several defendants did not ensure there were adequate safety measures during rapper Drake’s OVO Music Festival after-party at the packed Muzik nightclub at Exhibition Place on Aug. 4, 2015. The defendants all deny Showbeg’s allegations, saying they did take proper safety precautions and that they couldn’t have reasonably foreseen or prevented the shooting. Two people died and several were wounded after gunfire erupted around 3 a.m.No arrests have been made in the killings of Duvel Hibbert, 23, and Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26. Police have said Hibbert was the target and Navarro-Fenoy an innocent bystander. (Hibbert’s family is suing Muzik for $2.5 million, claiming there were inadequate security measures that evening — allegations denied in a statement of defence.)According to Showbeg’s statement of claim filed in 2016 in Ontario Superior Court, he was a “lawful patron” attending the event when an unknown assailant shot him in the ab ...
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