Every Bit of Ink

Local businessman appears calm despite being held on murder charges

Cassandra Jowett, National Post
Published: Saturday, March 07, 2009

Toronto businessman Marshall Ross made a brief court appearance by video link yesterday, looking calm and confident despite being held on murder charges. Mr. Ross, 37, stood straight and still, and looked directly into the camera as he stated his name. With him was contractor Dmitri Kossyrine, one of two other men charged with the first-degree murder of Mr. Ross’ relative, wealthy philanthropist Glen Davis. The two men and Ivgeny Vorobiov, who worked for Mr. Kossyrine as a general labourer, were arrested on Feb. 28. Mr. Ross and Mr. Kossyrine are scheduled to appear in court again on March 20. Mr. Davis was shot on May 17, 2007, several times in the torso in the P2 level of the parking garage at 245 Eglinton Ave. E. Police say his killer waited for him. Mr. Davis had been the victim of a brutal assault more than two years before his death. A man wielding a baseball bat attacked him outside his office, located at the end of an affluent residential street in York Mills.