Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Timeline: Murders at GTA schools 1975 to present

May 28, 1975: At Brampton’s Centennial Secondary School, 16-year-old student Michael Slobodian shoots and kills a teacher, fatally wounds another student and injures 13 others before killing himself. Slobodian is the first recorded high-school killer in Canada.

Nov. 5, 2003: Konstantin Kocherga, 18, is fatally stabbed during a massive brawl on the grounds of Georges Vanier Secondary School in North York just after night school classes had finished. Kocherga was not a student at the school. Two 17-year-olds are charged with first-degree murder.

Dec. 10, 2004: Bramalea Secondary School teacher Aysegul Candir is shot to death by her estranged husband in the school parking lot. Erhun Candir is found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

May 23, 2007: 15-year-old Jordan Manners is shot and killed at C.W. Jefferys Secondary School in Toronto. Two 17-year-olds are charged with first-degree murder, but the first trial ends in a hung jury. A new trial in 2011 acquits the two 17-year-olds.

March 30, 2010: Michael McDonald, 16, is stabbed to death during a dispute at a bus stop across the road from Monsignor Paul Dwyer Catholic High School in Oshawa. Jacques Amakon, 18, who also attended Monsignor Paul Dwyer, is arrested shortly after and charged with second-degree murder. In 2012, he is sentenced to six years in prison.

Sept. 23, 2014: Hamid Aminzada, a 19-year-old student at North Albion Collegiate Institute, dies in hospital after he is stabbed inside the school.
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