Police keeping open mind in Cabbagetown murder

Toronto Police don’t yet have a known motive in the brutal stabbing slaying of former Eritrean refugee Nighisti Semret.
Could that motive have stemmed from a scam from her former country where refugees are shaken down and threatened to pay a special tax back to their homeland or face retribution?
Many Eritrean refugees have complained of such things happening to them.
And the RCMP has said in many media reports that money raised here is paying for military operations back home.
“As recently as September of this year Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird threatened to close down the consulate here in Canada and expel the ambassador for what is considered to border on criminal activity in collecting this tax,” said Toronto crime specialist Ross McLean, a former Toronto Police officer and security expert. “The tax reportedly is 2% of all wages earned worldwide by fleeing citizens and they have to pay it.”
On his rossmcleansecurity.com webpage McLean writes, “Could her vicious murder be in essence a message sent to all Eritreans abroad to not complain and to continue to pay the tax?”
There was no one to answer this Friday at the Eritrean consulate which is located at 120 Carlton St., just blocks from the murder scene.

Toronto police: News conference to update reporters about the case.

Toronto homicide’s Det. Sgt. Gary Giroux was not tipping his hand Friday into his avenues of investigation other than to say with this information about the tax from Eritrea is something that would fall under the category of police “keeping an open mind.”
Police are also trying to work leads stemming from an unclear video showing the disguised killer stalking his victim just steps before murdering her.
The more you look at this horrific slaying, the more it looks like an organized ambush.

Of course the police are weighing all scenarios but if you stroll down the pedestrian walkway murder scene, you will see for yourself that the spot where she was stabbed five times was the most secluded possible spot for a murder.
They call it the Cabbagetown murder but in reality it’s really a murder closer to Allan Gardens. The alley is just north of Gerrard St., not too far from the Phoenix Concert Theatre.

Investigation into the murder of Nighisti Semret

Certainly robbery would be a normal motive in this area or even sexual assault but so far police do not have good evidence to indicate it was either.
So what was it?
Why would someone go to this trouble, this amount of rage and violence, this amount of planning, to kill a 55-year-old refugee who worked as supervisor/cleaning person at a local hotel?
Police are running down every lead and although this killer thinks he was slick with his strange face mask and having the wherewithal to leave with the murder weapon, if he made a mistake somewhere he will be caught.
Meanwhile, a shrine is building in the spot where she was slain. Flowers, candles, messages and poems.
Sooner or later there has to be a clue that will help solve this disturbing murder.