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VIDEO: Police appeal for witnesses to murder of 15-year-old boy

Posted By: Siobhan Morris · 2/18/2013 3:45:00 PM

For the 4th time this month, a GTA family is planning a funeral for a boy not even old enough to drive.

Toronto Police are asking for help to solve the shooting death of 15-year-old Jarvis Montaque in Rexdale Sunday night.

Jarvis was hanging out with friends & family members Sunday night, on a walkway through the Jamestown Cr. housing complex he called home.

A man dressed all in back walked up to the group & shot Jarvis in the chest.

The shooter walked back to the direction he'd come from.  Jarvis & his friends ran away in the other direction across the complex.  Jarvis eventually collapsed near a set of stairs.  He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Detective Joyce Schertzer describes Jarvis as "a good kid" who wasn't a troublemaker & wasn't known to police.  He'd moved to Toronto from Jamaica 2 years ago.  He was a a grade 10 student at Father Henry Carr High School.

Police are asking anyone with any information case in the case to call them at 416-808-7400 or to contact Crime Stoppers.

BOYS KILLED BY GUNFIRE IN THE GTA THIS MONTH

-January 18: 15-year-old Tyson Bailey, shot in stairwell of Regent Park apartment building

-January 23: 9-year-old Kesean Williams shot through his living room window as he watched TV

-February 11: 15-year-old St. Aubyn Rodney shot in his apartment while hanging out with friends, a 17-year-old boy has been charged with manslaughter

-February 17: 15-year-old Jarvis Montaque killed while hanging out with friends on Jamestown Cr. sidewalk

(With files from Justine Lewkowicz)

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  1. NovaV posted on 02/19/2013 07:44 AM
    Let us not ignore the inferences of race when addressing gun violence. The fact that each of these young men were "not known to police" is the kind of suggestion that robs the victims of justice while misappropriating homicide as norms for low-income communities. Furthermore, to the rescue come those who are not from these communities yet expect full cooperation in lieu of a legacy of unresolved murders of black males and marginalized youth. The last four murders of young boys under 16 who were by all accounts, happy, educated, respected and well supervised have made headlines without any mention of concrete resolutions that are community focused. Where is the Jamestown community?! What is their collective response?! The greater Toronto community is at a loss as to how to appropriate their outrage because local leadership is absent. Where is the legacy of Charles Roach?!
  2. Chris posted on 02/19/2013 08:22 AM
    Interesting that you managed to get through that whole discussion without really confronting the issue of lawlessness in the black community. That community far more than any other is afflicted with gangs, guns, and violence. Why is that? Well, maybe it's because for the longest time a huge component of our black population was Jamaican, a country where lawlessness is an epidemic and where the homicide rate is amongst the highest in the world. Sadly, this community has brought this same culture of violence to Canada. The denials and the whinging about profiling do no one any good.

    Look at the Mitchell Wilson case, a young man victimized by two very young blacks...why did they feel that what they did was okay? And why was the perpetrator's mother's to the preceding to mutter to her son about it being like Mississippi and her fears of being lynched? Did she express any remorse about Mitchell? Did her son? No, she basically supported her abominable child and inferred that the problem was not his behaviour, but racism. We've been hearing that rubbish for years.

    The black community has a problem. Let them solve it. Or close the door and keep throwing the offenders out or in jail until the problem stops.
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