Death of happy and bright schoolboy, 11, was one of saddest cases ever heard by coroner
Dylan Afandi died in hospital three weeks after being found near a local rugby field, an inquest heard
John JonesReporter
Updated
Dylan Afandi, 11, died in May last year (Image: Sarah Morris)
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âWhat do you call a memory that never happened?â 13-year-old Kyla asks an imaginary group of peers as she rehearses the speech she plans to give at a belated graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020, whose primary school career was cut short by the pandemic. As she starts secondary school and says goodbye to childhood, Kyla is grieving, not just for those formal markers of transition from one stage of life to another, but for the little personal markers of her self-identity: her ability as an organiser, her talent as a dance captain.
Kyla is the central character in Shaun Dunneâs new play What Did I Miss?, which was to be the centrepiece of the Dublin Theatre Festivalâs family programme in 2020, an annual partnership with the Ark, a cultural centre for children. Like all arts organisations around the country, the global pandemic presented the Ark with a challenge: how to reach young audiences when coming together is problematic.
Last month, B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) recorded its highest overdose call volume for one month in the past five years, as paramedics responded to 2,977 calls provincewide an average of 96 calls per day.
Johnson
A Spotsylvania County man has been charged in connection with an incident last month in which multiple shots were fired and one man was wounded during an altercation in downtown Fredericksburg, police said.
Raekwon M. Johnson, 25, was arrested Thursday and charged with malicious wounding, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, reckless handling of a firearm and shooting in public, city police spokeswoman Sarah Morris said.
According to police and an affidavit for a search warrant filed in Fredericksburg Circuit Court, the incident started at 1:09 a.m. on May 16 in the 700 block of Caroline Street. The victims told police they had just left Spirits on Caroline Street when two women approached them and began acting in an aggressive manner, court records state.