The killing of Tyson MacDonald by a classmate in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, has left a community fractured and grappling with the aftermath of violence.
A beloved teen was killed by his classmate. A year later, a cloud of mistrust still hangs over their PEI town. The boys of Montague Regional High School peeled out of the school parking lot by the carload on a Friday morning, just a little over a week before last year’s Christmas break. They headed south toward a patchwork of dirt roads, woods and farmers’ fields in Prince Edward Island in search of their missing classmate and friend Tyson MacDonald.
It was unlike the 17-year-old to not text his mother, to not show up at the hockey game the night before. His Honda Civic, in which he loved to burn around the countryside, sat in the school parking lot covered in snow from the day before. Within days, Tyson’s body was found lying in a thicket about a 20-minute drive from the home he shared with his mom, younger brother and stepfather. A year later, the sleepy agricultural hamlets of Kings County are still reeling from his killing, the deceit in the aftermath and questions about what justice means when those involved are teenagers. Tyson’s homicide has touched thousands, a judge recently remarked, leaving no one unscathed – his family and friends in grief, the halls of Montague High in turmoil and an undercurrent of anger in his home community of 8,000 and beyond. In many ways, PEI seemed immune to the recent spike in youth homicide and violence that’s plagued the rest of the country. The island, known for its tight, friendly communities and barely noticeable crime rate, has theBut Tyson’s killing shattered the sense of safety and community, leaving an outrage that is omnipresent to this day: It’s in the way a cashier snatches bills from the hand of a customer who’s protested outside every court appearance. The frozen stares in Tim Hortons when someone connected to the case pulls into the drive thru. And the local truck owner with stickers on the back windshield that say it with a profanity: Only in PEI can you get away with murder
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