15-year-old Zack Issa is a student at Toronto's Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School. Thursday night one of his best friends, 20-year-old Kwada "Kojo" Mensah, was shot and killed by unknown assailants in a public housing co-op -- in America it might be called a "project" -- on the other side of the city.
Zack told the Toronto Star, "I was just shocked! I didn’t know what to do. He always told me to be careful where I go and stay good." The teen added, "[Kojo] was a nice guy and had lots of patience. People are killing each other for no reason."
Issa went on to say that he didn’t know why Mensah was in the notorious Malvern area, as he rarely left his "hood" in the equally notorious Jane-Finch district of west Toronto. Maybe Zack didn't know, but Toronto cops have a clue. [Snide comment deleted. Ed.] Police say further investigation has found that Mensah’s death was connected to another shooting that occurred later on the same day.
Just before midnight, a 32-year-old black man arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to his lower body. He said he had been shot in Scarborough earlier in the evening. Toronto's finest are searching for a suspect, described as "a black man with medium complexion, between 18 and 20, and about 5’9” with a medium build and short black hair", which narrows it down to about 100,000 denizens of the GTA.
So far this story doesn't rate much attention, even in the Toronto media. SSDD. That it's getting any play at all is due to the fact that Kojo was a former player for the Don Bosco Eagles, a football team for deprived (i.e. black) youths sponsored and coached by controversial Toronto mayor Rob Ford.
Hizzoner told the Toronto Sun he remembered coaching Mensah. “Someone called to tell me Kojo Mensah was shot and I just said ‘I can’t believe it.' ... He was one of my kids. It just kills me.” End of quote.
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