Dark negro with African name sought in Toronto shooting

[William of the White Hand]

No matter how hard the Toronto Star ties to hide the colour of crime they just can't get rid of the stench of negritude. Here's a rambling video from the (black) cousin of dat por dead boy. http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/05/j...anners_cousin/

C.W. Jeffreys Collegiate Institute, the high school where Jordan Manners was shot and killed yesterday, is not too far from North York's Jane-Finch intersection. So it's no surprise that Jane-Finch.com just posted an interview with Jordan Manners' cousin Blacus Ninjah. - (Black Ninja? - ed)

Blacus doesn't offer any new details about the murder or the police investigation but he
does have some pointed words about the sensational coverage from the media. His key words of advice for the media and the public are to not "over-exaggerate what happened and try to exploit the community and make it look like it's an urban problem, a hip hop problem or a black problem."

A wall of silence in shooting?

May 26, 2007 04:30 AM
Betsy Powell
Crime Reporter

With hours turning to days and no arrest made in the slaying of 15-year-old Jordan Manners, the prospect has been raised that the witnesses who could help police lock up a killer aren't co-operating.

Homicide Det. Chris Buck says otherwise, and for someone in charge of the year's most high-profile case so far he seemed relaxed and confident of a "speedy" resolution when he made his last public comments Thursday afternoon.

Jordan was shot to death Wednesday at his west-end high school, which was filled with 800 students and teachers.

It's well understood, of course, that ev
en if police know who they're looking for, they must still gather the evidence with credible witnesses who'll be there to testify at trial. There have been several examples in the last few months of murder cases coming undone because witnesses changed their stories or judges and juries found them not credible.

Yesterday, the few students who came to C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, which is scheduled to reopen Monday, didn't seemed overly worried that a gunman would be on the loose indefinitely. Some sounded sure that this time there would be an exception to the prevailing "no-snitching" code of the streets.

"If I knew I would help the cops for sure," said one Grade 12 student who used to take the same TTC bus as Jordan. "As a Canadian citizen, we have a responsibility to do that," his friend added before the pair climbed into a car and left the school's parking lot.

Shyvonne, 24, dropped by yesterday to pay her respects to the school from which she graduated in 2003. Her brother is still enr
olled there and was caught in the lockdown that followed the shooting.

She said if students or anyone else knows who killed Jordan, and why, the reason they're likely staying mum is because they're scared. But this is one case where they should try to put those fears aside, "if this is going to give his family relief," she said.

She said the wall of silence has "always been like that" and "it's ridiculous."

But a young man, who declined to give his name but said he's in Grade 10, said it's not his job or anyone else's to help police. "They're too much in everyone's business." Asked if he would co-operate with authorities in this case, he replied: "I don't know. Mostly I keep myself on a low profile."

Josias, a Grade 10 student and friend of Jordan who rode his bike past the school a number of times yesterday, said he doesn't think distrust of law enforcement is depriving police of crucial evidence.

Rather, he reasoned that there might be some who don't want to turn in the culprit bec
ause they would prefer to see street justice play out, something Jordan's relatives urged against at a candlelight vigil outside the school Thursday night.

When he was asked if he knew who killed Jordan, he replied "no comment," but changed his mind. "I'm trying to find out," he said before riding away.

Stephnie Payne, a school trustee and friend of Jordan's mother, Loreen Small, said she's convinced the community will pull together and do the right thing because of the outrage over the tragedy.

"This was an extraordinary thing. Any parent who sends their kids to schools expects them to be safe." She's confident parents in the surrounding community who might otherwise stay quiet will make an exception this time and insist their children co-operate.

She was helping the family make funeral arrangements and said a service is planned for Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Toronto Police Services Board released an open letter yesterday to the federal and provincial governments
urging them to "take immediate action" regarding gun violence, including stiff sentences for people caught with illegal guns, a complete ban on handguns and greater co-operation with the U.S. government to prevent gun trafficking.

"Responsibility lies not only with those who are actually pulling the trigger but also with those who allow the guns to remain in our communities, those who allow this insidious industry to proliferate and those who do nothing to stop the international trafficking of these weapons," board chair Alok Mukherjee wrote.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/217947

[Whitebear]

Dark negro with African name sought in Toronto shooting

Collins Poku Duah

Police in Toronto have charged one teen with murder and are seeking a second in last Wednesday's slaying of a 15-year-old student in a north Toronto school. Police say a 17-year-old boy was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree murder.

Police say the teen, who can't be named under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is scheduled to appear in court on Monday morning.

Police say they are seeking a second 17-year-old, Collins Poku Duah, who should be considered armed and dangerous.
A judicial authorization to identify Duah
, who is wanted for first-degree murder, has been granted in this case due to extenuating circumstances.
Jordan Manners died after being shot in a hallway at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute.

[William of the White Hand]

Neither of the suspects can be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, but some C.W. Jefferys students have said both suspects were friends of Jordan.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/220003

[William of the White Hand]

Oh my - it looks like that mild-mannered honor stooodent was in Special Ed!!

'Busted' school system failed Jordan Manners, teacher says

RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR


Bruce Miles echoes what other teachers have said about C.W. Jefferys administrators, who seemed unresponsive to safety concerns.

Jun 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Iain Marlow
Staff Reporter

The very day Jordan Manners was shot and killed, his homeroom teacher was anxious to call Jordan's mother and warn her about her son – again.

"I was going to call his mother that day," said Bruce Miles, a special education teacher at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, where Manners was gunned down 10 days ago, the first fatal shooting inside a Toronto school.

Hours before Manners was shot he had told Miles the world would be better off without police. One week before that, the same teacher recalled Manners flashing a wad of bills in class – one of many that earned him the nickname "Stackz."

And in early May, Miles had called Loreen Small for the first time to warn her that Jordan was heading down the wrong path – professing admiration for violent behaviour at Jefferys and disrupting classes.

Manners had already seen guns pointed at him "a couple of times" and could distinguish the different types, his teacher said.

But Miles thought the 15-year-old could make it through high school. The head of Jefferys' special education department, he had worked intimately with Jordan from the day the Grade 9 student arrived – with a warning attached from Brookview Middle School that he was defiant and out of control. Miles stressed this week, though, that Manners didn't deserve this, that the school had failed him.

Miles said he has been too sickened by Jordan's death to return to teaching at Jefferys.

"The reason I'm taking this so hard is because it was preventable," he said from his home. "I can't walk into that school right now. I can't think of a lesson plan. A lesson in what? How to bring people back from the dead?"

The special education department deals with 120 of the 845 students at the high school near Keele St. and Finch Ave. W. The number of special-needs students at the school is up from last year, when there were 90, even as Miles lost one part-time worker, he said.

Courtney Betty, the family's lawyer, stressed there were no concrete associations between Jordan and gangs. Police said they have ruled out gang involvement.

Manners' mother, Small, said she received a call in early May from a teacher who "seemed very interested and encouraging towards Jordan."

"It was birthday money," Small said about the wad of bills Jordan had flashed before his death.

Miles said he was urged by colleagues to come forward after Dave Plaskett, also a Jefferys teacher, distributed a letter to the school's staff, administration and police, listing problems at Jefferys that were detailed Wednesday in the Star.

Most Jefferys teachers who spoke stressed these problems were common to schools throughout Toronto. The teachers who contacted the Star consistently said 90 per cent of Jefferys' students were outstanding, courageous and bright.

But others said the 10 per cent who had behavioural problems or learning disabilities were handled by administration in a way that endangered teachers and students and made it impossible for at-risk kids to get the help they needed.

"The system is busted," Miles said. "We have got to fix it before anyone else get killed."

Miles and other teachers described an administration that tried to play down serious incidents, including assaults on teachers. "They are so in denial it's atrocious," Miles said.

"Survival is managing your career," he added, speaking of the school's administration. "And managing your career is keeping your school out of the newspapers."

Miles, and other teachers who spoke out but refused to be named, said administration members were reluctant to call in police. More than a dozen current and former teachers have been physically assaulted in incidents that went unreported.

Since the incident, Sgt. Peter Duncan said teachers have quietly come to him. "People have come forward, staff and students, since this tragic homicide last week, who indicated a number of incidents that have occurred that my office and I were not aware of," he said. "We haven't been called there much at all."

One Jefferys staff member, who declined to be named, said the administration does not back up teachers on incidents like assaults, but that teachers are not discouraged outright from calling police.

"They don't discourage, but they put you in the position where, `If you want to go call the police, that's fine. But you go do that on your own time,'" said a Jefferys staff member. "Teachers aren't going to call the police on their own. It's just not going to happen."

Miles says he had been trying to implement a lesson plan he had designed to help turn around at-risk youth, which had been sponsored by the Toronto Raptors in the 1990s, but principal Charis Newton-Thompson wanted nothing to do with preventive programs.

When he received no response to requests, he sent an email, copying it to Verna Lister, superintendent of schools, and Donna Quan, Safe Schools superintendent.

An email response from Newton-Thompson's school board address requested Miles to refrain from communicating by email, and said he should see her in person – and, underlined, "in my office."

There was also a boldfaced section that read: "I am always willing to speak with you, however, I do not wish to receive any more `surprise' emails from you on this matter or any other school matter."

Administrators declined to comment, having been warned previously by the board's legal counsel.

Miles said it was frustration over Jordan's death that hurt most of all.

At the assembly after the shooting, Miles said, school administrators and Trustee Stephnie Payne tried to "whitewash it as a safe school."

One moment stood out for Miles. A friend of Jordan in a T-shirt bearing a picture of the slain boy sat listening to the speakers and repeating aloud: "Lies. Lies. Lies."

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/220731

[William of the White Hand]

Jordan Manners' mother Lorreen Small, centre, is comforted by the boy's cousin, Greg Leslie, and her sister Lousia Manners, at Driftwood Community centre, June 6, 2007. They are members of a multicultural coalition who gathered to call on the government and community leaders to fight youth violence.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/222720

Hours after the family of Jordan Manners joined forces with multicultural groups across the city in an effort to end youth violence, shots rang out a few streets away.

The coalition, whose members include the Manners family to B'nai Brith, said at a news conference at Driftwood Community Centre yesterday they are organizing a summit on youth violence for early next week. They hope to attract leaders from Toronto's faith and cultural communities, city residents who can offer insight as to what is happening in their neighbourhoods, and politicians.

Offer insight? The only insight you need to know is that they are feral niggers. Something our multicult friends just can't grasp.

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After all, aren't all niggers related to one another?

2 die in weekend shootings in Peel

A 22-year-old man will appear in court in Brampton on Monday charged with second-degree murder, after another man was shot leaving a birthday party a day earlier.

The 27-year-old victim, who has not been publicly identified, was shot several times as he left the party in the city west of Toronto early Sunday morning.

The suspect is identified as Andre Dexter Bourne. Bourne is the cousin of Jordan Manners, the teenager who was shot and killed at Toronto's C.W. Jefferys Collegiate in May.

Peel Regional Police said the suspect and the victim were at a birthday party at a home on Salisbury Circle.

"At about 2:30 a.m., the party was ending and people began to leave the residence. There was a verbal argument between the victim and the accused. The accused then shot the victim and fled the area," police said in a news release.

The Peel force is also investigating the death of an 18-year-old man who was shot and killed early Saturday while sitting in a parked car in Mississauga. Anuruddha Ratwatte, 20, of Mississauga is charged with second-degree murder.

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Dead niggteen's mammy beez dodgin' bullets

Bullets fired at slain teen Jordan Manners' family

A bullet took teenager Jordan Manners' life -- now seven shots just missed his mother and her two daughters, leaving the family once again shattered by a violence.



Manners' mom, Lorreen Small, and her two daughters survived a brazen murder attempt early Friday in the Jane St.-Shoreham Dr. area, the Sun has learned.

The shooting comes just 14 months after Small's 15-year-old son was shot at C.W. Jefferys high school.

Police stressed Friday's shooting is not connected to any previous shootings, including Manners' murder.

Outside her Shoreham Ct. tow
nhouse yesterday, Small was hesitant to speak publicly about the shooting.

When asked if she was scared, she replied: "Of course."

She said her daughters, both in their early 20s, were okay.

Shaking slightly as she talked, Small said she could feel the neighbourhood talking about the shooting and was concerned that police issued warrants for two men when only one of them shot at her.

Police announced Monday arrest warrants had been issued for Cameron Andre Richards, 31, and Jason "Jesse" Michael Johnson, 23, both of Toronto.

The men are wanted for attempted murder, possessing an unregistered restricted handgun and uttering death threats, police said.

Nearby residents cautioned Small not to speak to the media and she soon left, saying she was going to meet with her lawyer.

Courtney Betty, the family's lawyer, confirmed he had spoken with Small yesterday but said he didn't want to make any comments that interfered with the police investi
gation.

"It is unbelievable what could have happened," Betty said.

He said Small was "emotionally traumatized" by the incident and he advised her to move herself and her family out of the neighbourhood.

Det. Rick Ramjattan said officers are still hunting the two "armed and dangerous" men wanted in Friday's 4:30 a.m. shooting outside Small's home.

Yesterday police were examining surveillance footage from the scene and checking the last known addresses of the men.

Ramjattan said the shooting unfolded quickly.

He alleged one man fired while the other made a death threat.

"There was a disagreement, some words were exchanged and shots were fired," he alleged.

The women were offered police protection but refused it, Ramjattan said.

Officers recovered 9-mm bullet casings, he said.

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Retarded ape's shooting was deliberate

Manners shooting deliberate: Crown

The tragic shooting of a boy at a Toronto high school was a planned and deliberate homicide, a Toronto Crown attorney told a jury today.

“The shocking nature of this case is that it takes place...in the middle of the afternoon,” said Aaron Del Rizzo in presenting his opening statement in the trial of two men charged with first-degree murder in the May 23, 2007, shooting of Jordan Manners, who had just turned 15.

“Shortly after 2 p.m. on the last day of his short life, Jordan Manners sustained a gunshot wound in the middle of his chest. He was found at the base of a set of stairs in the middle of the school in the Keele St. and Finch Ave. W. area of the city,” said Del Rizzo.

The two, who were 17 at the time and are now 20, can’t be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The two men, known as JW and CD, are pleading not guilty.

Del Rizzo said the two accused escorted Manners, who was carrying a pop can, down a flight of stairs with JW in front of Jordan and CD walking behind him.

“At some point, JW drags Jordan down the stairs and puts something to his chest. He collapses, and never gets up again. CD immediately rifles through his pockets and hand some items to JW. No words were exchanged between CD and JW,” said Del Rizzo.

The .25-calibre bullet that killed him – penetrating his heart and a lung – remained inside his body. As a result, there was no blood visible on Jordan or the floor surrounding him. Initially, people didn’t know that Jordan had been shot, said Del Rizzo.

Once Jordan’s white jacket - which had a dark discoloration surrounding a hole right next to a melted zipper - was removed, a small entry wound was observed.

The prosecutor announced that the six-man, six-woman jury will actually travel to the school to see the shooting scene for themselves, which is a rare occurrence for juries.

Jordan’s mother, Loreen Small, sat slumped against her daughter’s shoulder during the prosecution’s opening statement.

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At some point, JW drags Jordan down the stairs and puts something to his chest

The .25-calibre bullet that killed him – penetrating his heart and a lung – remained inside his body.

That's the thing about pistols chambered for the .25 ACP cartridge - they are simply too underpowered to cause fatal wounds, that is, unless your target is at point blank range, or even less than that as in this news story. They were never intended for tactical applications. Only niggers and other idiot criminals ever carry this type of firearm. If you are new to firearms and shopping for a defensive handgun for home or concealed carry, just pass those .25 autos right on by.

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Two Jigs Accused Of Murdering Jordan Manners Plead Not Guilty