Teenage Son Of Saint Lucian Parents Shot Dead In Toronto

A teenager born in Canada to Saint Lucian parents died in a hail of bullets near a mall in Toronto one day before the start of the new school year. Mario Giddings was fifteen and lived near the mall. Bullet-riddled stores and cars and shattered glass bore silent testimony to the ferocity of the attack on Monday at about 7:44 pm. Someone had also placed a few flowers at the scene of the deadly gun violence. Mario’s heartbroken aunt, Fortunata Giddings, who was also his guardian because the youngster’s parents were in Saint Lucia, appeared on CTV News Toronto calling for justice. Fortunata told CTV News Mario was afraid to go to school. “He afraid to go there because I think they had a fight there with a few of them and then he telling me: ‘Oh, you have to look for another place for me to go to school because those boys will come back to me’,” the aunt recalled. Mario’s mother, Lea Seraphin, who lives at Millet, was in shock and unable to contain her emotions when she spoke to St. Lucia Times. She said Mario’s Aunt had called with the tragic news of his fatal shooting. Lea...