A St. John’s man charged with first-degree murder after a shooting in the city three months ago was back before a judge today.

Forty-eight-year-old Corey Snook is accused in the targeted killing of 30-year-old Terry Griffin on Salter Place in July.

The daytime incident triggered a brief shelter-in-place order for the west end neighbourhood as police tracked the suspect to a nearby home on Gros Morne Place.

There, Snook was arrested without incident and has remained in custody since then.

In addition to murder, he faces seven gun-related charges and breaches of release orders.

He’s also accused of threatening and assaulting two people with a weapon the day before the shooting, one of them being Griffin.

Snook also faces more than a dozen other unrelated charges of thefts, break-ins wi

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