16-year-old gunned down in doorway of his home

A young 16-year-old boy, named Keyon Cambell was gunned-down at his doorway as he went to warm up his mom’s car. As Keyon Cambell opened the door, he was shot, and Keyon stumbled back inside and collapsed in the hallway around 1:20 a.m. yesterday. This incident took place at a townhouse complex on Empringham Dr. in the Morningside and Sheppard Aves. area. As Keyon’s mother and aunt rushed to the door to attempt CPR until the ambulance arrived. Shortly after taken to the hospital, Keyon was pronounced dead. Just a year ago, Campbell was featured in the documentary EMPz for Life, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Campbell is the 80th homicide in Toronto and half of the 80 homicides was a shooting death. Toronto is on track to break the 1991 record of 89 homicides in a year. Det. Hank Idsinga explained to the media that “Keyon Campbell was a young, 16-year-old boy, a bright student, employed, and an avid basketball player.” As police spent the whole day yesterday looking for evidence, they found that the shots appear to have been fired from a northerly direction. Tracks left in the snow indicate the suspect initially fled the scene on foot. Everyone around the neighborhood commented that Keyon was a good guy, he never caused any trouble, even though police knew Keyon, but it’s not because he had done crime, it’s just because he lives around the neighborhood.
I think this is horrifying news to everyone that lives in Toronto, even in Ontario. This scary incident tells us the dangerous society that we live in. A young 16-year-old boy was shot while walking out of the door; this scars me because now, every time I open my door, I am thinking, it could be my last. We’ve got to understand that this incident happened in Toronto, one of the wealthiest and safest cities in the world, and 80 homicide had happened in this year. This is a very important issue, young, innocent kids who has a bright future are being killed. Local police must pay more attention about what goes on in the streets; cop cars should roam around neighborhoods frequently to try to reduce the number of homicides that happen each year. If the other 79 homicides didn’t bring attention to the local governments, then I hope this is a wake up call to local governments that they must change the rules and pay more attention to neighborhoods.

Kids' Christmas party funds stolen

Yesterday morning, at 7:08 A.M, there was a robbery at Hunter's Horn Pub and Restaurant in Whitby. For the last few months, everyone that ate at the pub had donated money towards the salvation army to help kids and families to have a Christmas party and receive presents. The party is scheduled at 11 A.M on December 16th. The community had gathered nearly $8,000, plus another $2000 collected from two golf tournaments in pennies, dimes and nickels so that the restaurant could host its second annual Christmas party for needy children in the area. Last night, when the burglar broke into the store, the thieve(s) stole a large 5-gallon water container nearly full of cash donations. The store owner, Cindy Bawdick and Thomas Picco received a call from the police at 7:08 A.M yesterday. Police told the store owners that it was a planned robbery, the thieves came in from the side door of the restaurant, which faced one of the busiest streets of the city. The 5-gallon water container was attached to a pillar with a bicycle lock. The Dec. 16 party will go ahead for 32 needy kids from 3 to 13, on a list supplied by the Salvation Army. The children were invited with their families. Picco and his wife Cindy is committed to the cause, there is no way that they are going to cancel the event. Picco explained, “He didn't break my window. He tried to break the hearts of the kids who need our attention." Upon hearing the bad news, customers at the pub had already started to donate again, but it will be tough to re-raise $10,000 in two weeks. However, Picco and Cindy is dedicated to hosting this party of the kids in need.
I think this thieve is very inconsiderate and selfish. Stealing money which had been donated to innocent kids for Christmas is just gutless. This news just tells us about the world we live in, we live in a very nasty, selfish and greedy world, where no-one pays attention to anything that is happening around them. I hope the police will do everything in their power to catch this thieve and return the donated money to Picco for him to throw the kids a Christmas party and give out presents. This issue warns us that we must start to care about everything around us, we must not just let things slip by us and not do anything about it.