A Grade 12 student was killed in a shooting incident in Mississauga, Ontario. The police identified the victim as Jonathan Davis who was just in weeks into his final year of high school. The police described the life of Davis was cut short which they call a “brazen” an act of violence outside of an apartment complex.
Shooting ordeal
According to a witness, the mother of Davis was at the complex during the shooting incident. When she heard gunshots she immediately runs outside and saw her son lying on the ground and bleeding severely. She immediately provided first aid on her son. Some bystanders called the emergency numbers. She tried to apply pressure on the wound to lessen the bleeding. Paramedics arrived in the area and continued with the treatment. The boy was not revived. The mother was beside the boy with grief.
According to the police, the victim was an innocent bystander to the violence. Davis, Grade 12 student of Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School was hit by stray bullets that came out at a parkette on Darcel Avenue, west of Toronto.
Emergency crews responded to a call to the apartment complex at around 6:15 in the evening. The boy was declared dead when paramedics arrived in the area.
There were five more people wounded in the incident and were provided with first aid and taken to the hospital. A 16-year-old boy; 13-year-old girl; and two 17-year-old boys are still in the hospital but the other victim, a woman in her 50’s is already released from the hospital. All the victims are not related to each other.
According to the Peel Regional Police Chief Chris McCord, stated in the news that the intended targets of the shooting were the people who were preparing to film a rap video. It was believed that the shooting was motivated by a music video that was filmed in that place. It was an ambush-type attack.
According to the investigators, there were at least seven shooters that were involved in the incident. They were armed with semi-automatic weapons. The police recovered about 100 empty shell casings in the area.
The next day other neighbors in the apartment complex made a small makeshift memorial placed in the apartment lobby where Davis lived. There were cards, flowers and a few refreshments.
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