A dream GONE on October 15th 2011! Look at the picture Christophe Rookwood posed in front of. On the day of Christopher Rookwood's viewing, his mother who flew in from Jamaica met with me as I was nothing but a caring, concerned community Guns victims advocate. She asked me to videotape and take pictures of EVERYTHING and post them so the world can see! I have not done that till now.
These are moments you never want to forget especially when you send your child to Canada for a better life. I GAVE HER COPIES OF ALL THE photos
I took her to the Crime Stoppers event earlier that week in October 2011 and the detectives at Homicide asked us to come upstairs as they wanted to meet her including the lead detective Brian Borg.
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| A mothers touch and love |
“I don’t know why he was there,” Patricia Ellis, 50, said to the Toronto Sun. “He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s so hard. I love him so much.”
Police arrived at a townhouse complex at 32 Torbermory Dr in Toronto, Canada. around 2 a.m. and found the 20-year-old with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene and “suffered significant injuries,” said Staff Sgt. Frank Barredo.
Another man later showed up at Humber Regional Hospital with a gun shot wound to the leg.
“He was unco-operative, but we believe the incidents to be connected,” Barredo said.
Rookwood had a hard life with an absent father out of the picture, Ellis said. His mother. Bertha, 50, remains in Jamaica. She sent him to Canada for a better life. He never hung around gangs or got involved with drugs.
Rookwood just turned 20 on Sept.19.
“Whoever has these guns, I want them to get rid of these people,” she said.
Several males may have been involved and as many as 10 shots may have been fired, Barredo said.
Anyone with information on either case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS.
— Files from The Toronto Sun
