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Police, Media Hunt Zaveda Killer
This afternoon I stumbled upon the above scene at Dundas and Pape. As the Toronto Star has reported, cops cordoned off alleys and streets surrounding a home on Pape Avenue where they had hoped to find the suspect alleged to have shot and killed Bailey Zaveda at the Duke of York Tavern over the weekend.
Alas, no such luck. While TV crew and photographers from CityTV, the CBC, CTV and more camped out here for a couple of hours, they all went home disappointed. The suspect remains at large. More photos:
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what a terrible situation all together.
Absolutely senseless.
@ronotoe: Granted, I think the fact that the victim was a bystander is deserving of some more attention. I just can't help but feel as I walk past the site and see all the various camera crews with their extendable satellite transmitters that the coverage becomes something more akin to a circus. Perhaps I'm just being cynical, but at such a point it feels like their coverage has very little to do with the victim's family and more to do with milking this story for every last drop they can get.
I think we can all agree that it was a horrible tragedy and consequently wonder why it is we remain as a country unable to make hand guns illegal.
Paul M, families are also the thing that tend to really FUCK PEOPLE UP in a lot of cases. It goes both ways.
"A woman identifying herself as Weese's mother Sherry called the CP24 show Legal Briefs last night, extending condolences to Zaveda's family but saying there's no proof her son was the shooter.
"Everything that is being portrayed about my son is not true," she said, protesting comments that he should have been declared a dangerous offender because of his past convictions. She said she last heard from Kyle three weeks ago and, "I have no idea where he is ... Obviously he needs to do the right thing and turn himself in."
She added that it was difficult raising "many" children. "It all stems from where do people get help from when they have troubled children? There really is no help out there.""
You see? It's society's fault. Lock up society and throw away the key!
The media only gives people what they want. If you don't like it, don't watch. Stop bitching about it and vote with your remote or your loonies in the red and blue boxes in the morning. But my guess is there are a lot of people out there that DO want to hear/read about this story as it "could have been them" that night.
I disagree with the racism suggested by some of the above posts. When Jordan Manners was shot, there was lots of coverage. Ravi in Brampton, lots of coverage.
I think the "known to police" factor has to do with the attention and if it's a high crime area.
If anything comes of this I imagine it should be his blondness Mr Miller finding new blame for our troubles. I imagine, as you read this that Mr Miller is gassing up the plane to take his consultants somewhere distant from the troubles of Toronto and live it up on our dollar to try and find a solution.
If history repeats itself he will probably realizes that the non smoking ban should be banned from Toronto. If smoking were permitted indoors this would never have happened. All 6 shooting victims would have been indoors and only the people involved in the argument would have been shot. This is clearly the fault of the Lung Association.
This is Miller logic as I see it. It has nothing to do with our legal system. It has nothing to do that Mr Weese will likely be out on bail again in a short time. He can get another gun (unless Mr Miller is a hero and bans them first, OH WAIT! Mr Weese was already prohibited from owning a gun. Would a hand gun ban really have helped here?)
I hope Mr Miller finds other ways of avoiding the real issue, I know my friends would love to smoke indoors again.