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It is a mug brimming with joy and youthful exuberance. The snippet from the Facebook page of Randall McKenzie, 25, is in stark contrast to the hardened face glaring back at the world in nearly every photo from his late teens onwards.

And now, he has turned from a happy skater kid to an accused cop killer. According to cops, on Tuesday just after 2:30 p.m., rookie OPP Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala, 28, was shot while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville. He later died in hospital.

He had only been a police officer for about a year, and that career was a long-cherished dream. A dream that died Tuesday afternoon. His accused killer is Randall McKenzie who was later captured and taken to a hospital in Brantford. A 30-year-old woman, Brandi Crystal Lyn Stewart-Sperry, of Hamilton, was also arrested. Each faces a charge of first-degree murder.

Outside the hospital late Tuesday, a coterie of the accused killer’s family and supporters screeched at reporters. For his part, McKenzie seemingly told one “f— you goof.”

The nature of his injuries is unknown. The suspect was a cute kid. A lot of girls said so on Facebook. And then there was that smile and his ever-present “Kush” T-shirt.

But in his late teens, growing up in Hamilton, that started to change. It looks like a baby boy suddenly appeared in the picture, and his face is stiff and broody.

Three years removed from the smiling skater boy, photos of stacks of cash begin to emerge on his timeline. And then gold-wrapped blunts and the dollar sign tattooed on his finger.

Also appearing are lame gangster maxims. An arch-capitalist philosophy that is soaked in the nihilism of the streets. It has no past, no future, it lives only in the present.

On March 27, 2017, he posted: “Out here alone. No one except me and my hustle and myself. Don’t get too close to them; they'll hurt you.” And later that same year — alongside a stack of cash — he told a pal: “Dog. I’m richer than you think. Call me Scotia.”

Then, there are no new updates for a while because he says he’s in prison and is seen in a photo posing with his pals. Elsewhere on the page, he mentions #IndianMafia.

Multiple police sources told The Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington that McKenzie was a wanted man for failing to show up in court to face gun-related charges from 2021.

Why was he out on bail? “This just seems to show the flaws in the judicial system and the revolving door,” one detective told me Wednesday. “We may not want to warehouse people, but sometimes you need to protect society as a whole.”

Eventually, the Facebook photos featured a handgun and more stacks of cash. That smiling kid skateboarding near Jackson Square in downtown Hamilton appears to be lost.

Knowing what we know now, it appears the clock was ticking towards something terrible even in those innocent photos. None of the charges have been proven in court.

OPP Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala was on a different path. A wrestling stalwart at York University, a pillar of his Barrie community and with a desperate desire to do something positive with his life.

At this point in time, it doesn’t appear the rookie cop and McKenzie have anything in common. Then, you look at the smiling photos of the kid skateboarding, and you’re stunned to realize that maybe once upon a time, they did.

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