Mario Giddings was supposed to start Grade 11 at Weston Collegiate Institute on Tuesday morning.
The 15-year-old boy was fatally shot on Monday evening in the parking lot of a plaza just across the street from the 12 Division police station, near Black Creek and Trethewey drives.At the scene, officers found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds and performed life-saving measures, Duty Insp. Dan Pravica told reporters at the scene on Monday night.Toronto Police Service said that a dark-coloured vehicle was seen entering the plaza moments before a gun was fired.
“I could not believe that I am there looking at him dying and I didn’t know it was him. I didn’t know,” said the teen's heartbroken aunt. “No where around here is safe right now because the kids that live on Weston Road are beefing with the kids around here,” she said.“I was driving. I wanted to turn back. I wish I did turn back and wake him up and just tell him the come, go with us. Come and go and try some rides and have some fun,” she said tearfully.
Supt. Paul McIntyre of the organized crime enforcement unit said Toronto police are taking an “intelligence-led, all-hands-on-deck approach to combating violence” in the city.
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