My fiance lives just around the corner from where the shooting happened in Toronto...I am outside of the city. It was for this very reason that I left the city I grew up in. As some of you know I am a single mom to three now grown children. I no longer felt secure raising my kids there...two of them are boys.
We try and do the best we can with the youth, but sometimes things go wrong and/or they get with bad company.
I could see one of my boys heading in that very direction, I had the means to leave, others do not.
I feel for the families that lost loved ones and the ones that were hurt. My heart just aches reading what has happened.
On a side note one of the victims Josh the 23 year old killed, went to the same school as my boys. He was not from the area, but from Ajax the town next door to mine. My youngest son knew him well.
This is now the second funeral my son has to leave school to come home for....I am just heart broken..... |