Alicia Jasquith had wanted to be buried next to her daughter ever since Lecent Ross was fatally shot in a Jamestown townhome in 2015 at the age of 14. Jasquith died earlier this month and now her community is hoping to grant her dying wish.
Yet another child victim.
In November, it was a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by gunshots fired from the building’s parking lot. Now, at 3 a.m. Friday, it was a 14-year-old girl struck in the head from a shot believed to have been discharged from inside an apartment.
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She was taken by emergency run to the Hospital for Sick Children, where she remains in critical condition. Doctors and nurses are doing everything they can.
“She is fighting for her life,” Toronto Police Supt. Pauline Gray told a media conference outside of 31 Division.
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More innocent people were being shot, however.
Then, in this miserable 2020 of the pandemic and record-shooting numbers, came the slaying of 12-year-old Dante Andreatta Marroquin, struck across the street from a Jane and Finch apartment building parking lot while walking home with his mom.
Toronto was upset again. For a couple of days.
There have been so many people innocent people killed or hit by these stray bullets, it’s difficult to keep track of them all.
It’s even harder to remember all of their names. But we must try.
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