I don't even post non-hip-hop stories here but Toronto Police asked me if I could help them catch a killer. You know we urban folks love the hip-hop culture and the audience that may visit here may have a clue to who did this. Am I stereotyping you? If it means catching a killer walking the streets, I'll post it! Wish they could get those zoom in equipment in from the States so that they can know this person's identity. Friends and family packed the Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque in Etobicoke for the funeral of 18-year-old Abdikarim Ahmed Abdikarim 3 hours ago, Toronto's 11th homicide victim of the year.
"He was a good kid," said friend Abdul Addo. "Everybody loved him. Everybody loved him." Like most of those present at the sombre service, Addo has seen the video of the shooting and was stunned by the callous nature with which the gunman fired on the group. "He didn't care. He just kept shooting. 'Till the last click. He clicked it and then he ran away." The Mosque holds approximately 1,500 people, but so many arrived to mourn the loss of the promising teen that they actually had to close the doors. This was the Somalian community. 6 kids just socializing in front of a locked door with no where to run. This guy wanted 6 dead bodies!The slain teen's former teacher was in attendance after spending a harrowing night at the hospital with him and other shooting victims. "It's sad, you know, and my question today is why are so many of our kids killing each other?"It's a question that won't easily be answered, but friend Brahan Said stressed that the only way to stop the cycle is violence is to avoid striking back. "God is just. God is merciful, and to let God handle it, not take the matter into their own hands, and we should not retaliate because we don't want more people shedding blood."
Abdikarim was one of six men targeted by a gunman on Amaranth Court in the Dufferin and Allen area on Friday night. They call this court "The Jungle." It's had it's fair share of crime. The police video shows two men walking towards the area where Abdikarim and his friends were hanging out. The man in front pulls out a gun and begins firing at the group, hitting Abdikarim with a fatal shot to the head. Five others were wounded.
The other man, who was trailing behind the gunman, immediately begins to run away from the scene. Police are currently searching for him, and are trying to figure out if he was with the shooter, or just in the wrong place at the wrong time. There is also another figure well far away from the two men and that figure ran back to his car or somewhere too. I think this gunman was alone. I was present at the press conference when this video was released to the media Monday. If you know who this person is, contact Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-T-I-P-S
Police say the victims weren't involved in any criminal activity. It's starting to look like the U.S as Toronto's homicides are about 82 per year as compared to 1900 in Baltimore, New York or Philly. Just 2 days ago Toronto THE LARGEST CITY IN CANADA was in the list of Canada's most dangerous cities as #26. Not bad but we may be gunning for the #1 spot soon with brazen shootings like this. A family member counted 17 bullets on the tape to the last clip. R.I.P. Abdikarim!
This has to stop! Thru this blog, many of you young men with criminal records come to me daily asking me to mentor you. You can FIX your lives here and quit telling me you wanna go to the States but they won't let you in! Pls e-mail me at mediakemi@rogers.com if you have an issue you want to resolve in your life! We still don't know who killed Shawn McClean and dumped him in front of my house across the street. We all need to mobilize this city. Those of you I spoke to at C.W Jeffries High last month remember what I said about what violence can do to ruin you! Too many of you are dying under 23! There is so much to live for in this beautiful city!!! The rest of this video is so graphic with kids falling down all in a distressed state with blood gushing from Abdikarim's head. The police did not choose to show that part which will not move the investigation forward.
Source: CityNews
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