We also can’t show you the mug shots of the suspects who have been charged with first-degree murder in the gutless shooting of the 12-year-old boy.
It’s not that there’s nothing to see here, folks. There is lots to see.
But the authorities aren’t showing us or letting us show you. It’s like a homicide in full daylight being pushed into the darkness forever.
A secret slaying of a secret victim that’s not so secret — it’s bizarre. The gang world must laugh at how inept and weak we are.
In a few weeks, and after a few more shooting victims, perhaps you won’t even remember that a young boy was cut down just north of Jane and Finch while walking home with his mom from a grocery store. It won’t be difficult to forget a name or face you never knew.
Once lost in the three years it will take to get to court, you may hear even less about accused shooters Rashawn Chambers, 24, and Jahwayne Smart, 25, who have already been hit with gun prohibitions, yet were still somehow free to allegedly shoot at five people in a car, one of the 30 bullets fired from two guns with overcapacity magazines killing the boy.
If anybody wasn’t wearing a COVID-19 mask or staying two metres apart, there might be more of a fuss made.
It’s a sick joke and everybody knows it. But politicians will talk, virtue signal and blame, and then do nothing.
It was interesting to watch some on council who voted to defund the police in hiding Thursday or trying to change their position. At the news conference at 31 Division, area Councillor Anthony Perruzza said he voted for the defund motion to combat “racism” but now throws his full support behind the police.
They aren’t the bad guys in this city. They’re the good guys. It was the police, after all, who desperately tried to save the boy from bleeding out after cowards shot him, and it was the police who had two in custody in just 51 hours.
What should happen out of this heinous act is the return to street checks, police in schools, a TAVIS-style program to break up the gangs, no bail for weapons offences and 10-year prison terms for crimes with a deadly weapon. And no more anti-police rhetoric, but instead teach the community the police are great.
The people who aren’t great are the ones in the obscene video of this crime. It’s as evil as evil can get. On display is utter disregard and disrespect for human life and a lack of fear of being identified.
Instead, two men just start firing at a car in the 25 Stong Court parking lot in such rapid succession, it sounds like a war zone.
In the end, the bullets did damage that could not be repaired.
First you see the targeted vehicle with five people inside frantically trying to escape the scene while under fire. Three people were hit and the car was abandoned two kilometres away, north on Driftwood Ave. Also sad is seeing a woman with a shopping cart scurrying for her life.
The two shooters hopped into a getaway car with a third unidentified man and sped off.
The chilling video does not capture the horrifying scene across the street, where a bullet struck a 12-year-old boy in the neck, leaving him so badly wounded that he later died.
“It’s very upsetting for this community and the whole city,” Toronto Police Supt. Ron Taverner said Thursday. “It’s deplorable.”
Meanwhile, officers who attempted to save the boy by doing CPR are shaken up after staying at Sick Kids hospital while he battled to live.
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