While talking about nails — by way of eye shadow, boys and her frustrating mother — Brianna Warner confessed to murder .

It was a huge get for Toronto police, one that was months in the making.

While the 18-year-old Warner had emerged as a person of interest in the December 2022 shooting of 20-year-old Jai Parker-Ford, investigators weren’t quite ready to charge her.

Two months after the shooting, Warner was arrested on unrelated charges, and investigators saw an opportunity. They had an undercover officer known only as “TJ” build a rapport with the friendless Warner, cultivating a relationship that would pay off on April 7, 2023, when Warner invited TJ into her bedroom and told her that she was the one who shot Parker-Ford.

“It was one bullet,” she said. “I didn’t want to waste any.

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