#HNNMemorial Remembering Tammy Bullock's son the DYNAMIC 14y/o Brayton Bullock #HNNCrime

The Late Brayton Bullock

While I was in Canada, I received an award for community contribution and this is one case that I would have wanted to speak out and get involved as a Community Activist. Who says it's too late? To put the tragic story of Brayton Bullock out 8 years after his death is big to me. I arrived in Canada 2007 a year later having fled still ongoing violence in Nigeria. Eight years ago today March 9th 2006, #HNNAfrica remembers Brayton Bullock. A 14-year-old Canadian kid who was murdered by his own cousin Nickolas who doctors said had signs of being a psychopath.

Brayton and his killer cousin Nickolas Bullock

Brayton Bullock was stabbed in the head, back and chest by his 16-year-old cousin, Nickolas Bullock, in Lackie's Bush in south-end Barrie on March 9, 2006. In February 2009, a jury found Bullock, now 25, guilty of first-degree murder and November 2009 the judge sentenced him as an adult, to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years from the time of his arrest -- which means he becomes eligible for parole in 2016.

This case has torn the family apart.  Speaking to a Barrie newspaper years ago, Brayton's mom Tammy said "Nick knew how to play the system and he played it well. He showed no interest in applying to a university until he learned he might have to do hard time in an adult prison ... when he was out on the streets he refused to go to school."

As she walked away from the court, her eyes began to flood with tears.

"It's like my son really didn't matter in all of this," she said. "He is the one who was murdered, yet everything was about Nick and what's best for him. Now, it's over, and I fear my son will be forgotten."

Tammy has helped start up a new support group with Seasons Centre for Grieving Children in Barrie for parents who have lost a child. The group is called Empty Arms, and is open to any parent who lost a child for any reason.

"If it were just to murder, I would be sitting in the room all by myself," said Tammy. "But losing a child for any reason is painful, and we found there was nothing out there for parents."

It was here somehow when advocating for families of gun murdered victims in Canada that one CHERYL BULLOCK entered my Facebook friends list as I add mutual friends with my law enforcement pals when I noticed Cheryl advocated for missing and murdered people. I loved her passion for that. We all connected with Toronto Police officers on Facebook, like Constable Scott Mills who designated us as a public safety group. Myself- Guns Murders, Cheryl-Missing and Murdered/Knife murders, Nicholas Maharaj-Crimestoppers appeals, Chris Doucette-Toronto Sun Crime Reporter. 

Nothing like hearing the story of Brayton's murder from Cheryl. OMG! So shocking and heart wrenching. That was why I was determined that Tammy's fear will not come true. I will continue to put Brayton's face and name in the news. We must never forget the faces of the dead I once told the Toronto sun that.  Nick bore nothing more than a family grudge against him and in the process became a monster.

Then there are the gossip mongering public that Tammy Bullock has to endure, Once, in a grocery lineup, she heard two women pointing out the story in a newspaper.

"Where were their parents?" they said, shaking their heads.

"I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry out," Tammy says.

People assumed it was a bush party -- "bad kids attacking bad kids" -- even gang fighting, when Brayton was first murdered. Because of a publication ban that protected the identity of his killer cousin, the family was told to remain silent.

"I couldn't tell them that Brayton had a loving family. That he had rules. That he never got into trouble," says his mother.

In fact, Brayton never went into Lackies Bush until that hellish night when he was lured by his cousin, she says.

Late Brayton Bullock

Please don't forget Brayton today. He too would have been 23 like my middle son Lade. On the day he was killed I was actually visiting my son in school that day at lunchtime as I zeroed in what I was doing on March 9th 2006. I was on my way moving out of the United States after 30 years heading to Nigeria. I vividly remember cos it was the anniversary date of the murder of Lade's fave rapper Christopher Wallace (March 9th 1997) and we were talking about it not even knowing that one Canadian boy was going to be murdered that same day. 

I later fled Nigeria after the 2007 election violence in 2007 and filed asylum in Canada where my victim advocacy began. Somehow Cheryl and I crossed paths and I still have never met her. One day! I say One day! Cheryl continues to keep her awareness of Knife crimes high on social media.

My youngest son KJ will be 14. I can never imagine this? The song I am listening to as I type this story is "All we need is Love" by Nigerian rapper/singer Sasha P. The big line was about the 16 year old who had big dreams and lost it all. Nickolas is eligible for parole 2016 or as early as late this year. The families are not happy he has done his time and the public may have a lot to worry about. Canada is very strict on public safety unlike here in Nigeria where we don't even have a 911 emergency response system. To the families, pls stay strong!

#RIP Brayton Grey Bullock

(July 24th, 1991 - March 9th, 2006)

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With Files from The Barrie Examiner

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@TorontoPolice arrest 8 Ruthless #GANG members in 4 #Unsolved Murders @TPSHomicide. Many of the victims I advocated for.

Delano Coombs, one of the victims whose killers were caught in Operation Project Horse

Not withstanding the fact that I lived there when these killings took place but it was in an area bordering mine. 11 Division where one specific apartment townhome complex was ground zero. The Cooper Mills townhouses saw the murders of Jarvis St Remy, Shane Williams, Jermaine Smith, Delano Coombs and in the perimeter Adrian Johnston and Kenneth Mark. Marvin Engelbrecht and Daniel Davis were also killed unprovoked just minding their own business.

Speaking as an advocate at Cooper Mills an hour after Delano Coomb's murder

Det Wayne Banks addresses media at Cooper Mills

Inside the yellow tapes as I was giving crime stoppers cards to individual residents.

I thank Detective Wayne Banks who made an exception on the night of the Coombs murder to let me cross the yellow tape with officers to give the crime stoppers cards to each neighbor to teach them that they could send a tip if they saw anything. Now read the accounts of these murders below.

Just before midnight one day last October, Marvin Engelbrecht took his dog for a walk near Flemington Road.

He hadn’t quite reached home when a car pulled up beside him. A figure jumped out and chased him up a driveway, shooting multiple times. He never reached his front door, the victim of a bullet to the head.

Now Toronto police have arrested eight people they believe formed a “ruthless” group responsible for a string of violence that included Mr. Engelbrecht’s death, three other homicides and two attempted murders.

“Some of these acts are … random acts of violence — they’ve just come upon these people, engaged them, and murdered them,” said Staff Insp. Greg McLane of the homicide squad.

The suspects are between 19 and 29 years of age. Some of the accused were already in custody for other offences at the time the charges were laid.

But Staff Insp. McLane stopped short of calling the accused a street gang.

“We can clearly put them with each other,” he said. “They are a group, and they do hang out, and they do commit criminal offences together.”

“I can’t really tell you that they’re a member of any organized street gang.”

To know that someone just wakes up one morning and decides to kill someone, that’s disgusting. That’s painful
The investigation, dubbed Project Sugar Horse, began in April 2013 after police linked the alleged murderers to a string of shootings that began in 2008 with an attack on Kenneth Mark, a well-known anti-gang activist. He survived being shot in the head, but was murdered in a separate attack in December 2009.

Mr. Englebrecht’s death is just one of the shootings dubbed random by Staff Insp. McLane.

Daniel Davis, 27, was another; he was shot and killed at Flemington Public School on July 19, 2012.
But not all victims were random. Police said Delano Coombs was hunted down. Almost a year and a half after his death, Mr. Coombs’s sister said Thursday she is grateful for the arrests, but it doesn’t bring back the victims — her brother included.

“To know that someone just wakes up one morning and decides to kill someone, that’s disgusting. That’s painful,” Toni Tenille Rodney said.

Other victims include Jermaine Smith, 28, of Mississauga, who was shot multiple times at a BBQ attended by about 50-100 people, many of whom were children.

Facing murder charges are Aiman Khiar, 24; Jerome Bent, 22; Dellan McMorris, 23; Shakeil Wheatle, 19; Dwayne Willis, 20; Amanda Rumbolt, 29; Jathursan Rajarubakumar, 22; and Bershon Roach-Ferguson, 20.

The investigation is ongoing.

With files from The National Post

Below is the story in the Town Crier newspapers on the ongoing murder investigations at Cooper Mills, so as of then, we had 8 murders and 6 UNSOLVED. Now we have 8 with 4 unsolved. Thanks largely to the community who I always encourage to keep snitching by calling 1800222TIPS or better being a witness by calling Toronto Police Homicide Squad at 416-808-7400

My coverage of the murder of Delano Coombs

http://www.mytowncrier.ca/heartbreak.html

EXCERPTS OF THE STORY:

Outspoken crime victim advocate Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, who recently launched a “start snitching” campaign and is also known as the “snitch lady”, looks at the Cooper Mills murders and sees something else in common with the six unsolved murders: all the victims are black.

Though she says she has been labelled a racist by people of all races for pointing the finger at the black communities for not talking to police, she maintains she’s just speaking the truth.

“The white cases got justice because people spoke and got the killers off the street,” she said, pointing to major cases like that of Jane Creba. “So don’t keep saying the police aren’t looking for who killed the black person. All of you need to start doing what everybody else is doing. If you don’t want to be a witness, call Crime Stoppers, give them a direction to go to.”

At the same time, she recognizes it’s difficult because people are afraid to talk. However, that’s instilled from a young age because of rap and hip hop, she says.

“Our streets are very musically, hip hop-themed, and it goes with the program: don’t snitch. That mentality is there for them as young as 10, 12 years old,” Omololu-Olunloyo said. “The black streets of Toronto are coached never to snitch.”

While there doesn’t seem to be a consensus as to why these murders continue to happen, the wheels are getting into motion to try to prevent more homicides at Cooper Mills.

“What has to be done at 4020 Dundas is a community meeting,” she said. “I would like to have a community meeting with 11 Division officers and the community itself, meaning everybody at 4020 Dundas and I want to get to the councillor. I’m talking about doing this soon.”

Councillor for the area, Sarah Doucette, agrees.

“I’m available to them whenever they need me,” she said. “I think the community is the best people to listen to. They’re the ones who live there, they’re the ones who’ve experienced this, they’re the ones we need to follow the lead from.”

A community safety walk or extra lighting could be a good place to start but more certainly needs to be done, Doucette says.

“I see this community the same as all the communities around here; we can work together and listen to people and see if we can come up with some solutions,” she said. “I think a community meeting is the best way to listen to suggestions.”

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