ATROCIDADES,
DESPUÉS DE ATROCIDAD! ¿Por qué debemos vivir siempre con miedo y terror?
¿Es porque no tenemos una policía y un sistema de justicia, que sirva y
salvaguarde la seguridad de la clase vulnerable?
Mother distraught over lack of information after son’s
shooting death
Jenyon Middleton, 30, was
fatally shot Sunday. His death is now the subject of an SIU investigation.
By Jackie HongStaff Reporter
Mon., July 25, 201
The mother of the man fatally shot during an incident involving Toronto police in Roncesvalles
on Sunday is trying to understand how and why her son, a father of
two young children, died on the sidewalk that morning.
Speaking to the Star on the phone from
her home in Kentville, N.S., Sherry Middleton, mother of 30-year-old Jenyon
Middleton, said that when she called police after hearing about the incident,
they wouldn’t tell her anything.
“Nobody would give me . . . answers,”
she said. “They wouldn’t even confirm it was my son.”
Jenyon was fatally shot in an incident
involving Toronto police around 6 a.m. Sunday after officers responded to a
call about a possible shooting near a non-profit co-op home at 55 Howard Park
Ave. A 25-year-old woman was also taken to hospital with serious injuries,
including a gunshot wound to the leg.
Middleton, who’s “never ever known
(Jenyon) to be involved in guns,” said she heard about what happened after a
nephew in Toronto called her saying he saw Jenyon’s building on the news. She
tried to call Jenyon and his girlfriend but no one picked up.
It’s the second son she’s lost to
violence in the last year. Last fall, Durham police found the body of her son
Claren, who had been shot, in a field in Pickering.
The Special Investigations Unit, a
provincial agency that investigates incidents involving police and civilians
where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault,
has taken over the investigation into Jenyon’s death.
The SIU does not provide details or
updates during active investigations, but a police source with knowledge of the
case said the death was a suicide.
Sharon Sliwinski, an area resident,
said she was woken up around 5:30 a.m. Sunday by the sound of arguing outside.
“I thought it was a bunch of drunk kids
or something like that, but then I heard more serious language . . . It sounded
like the police were negotiating with (the victim) at that point,” Sliwinski
told the Star.
Upon looking out her window a few
minutes later, she saw a man lying on the sidewalk between her home and the
neighbouring one. She said she went outside and saw a police officer with a
pistol in his hand, shaking.
According to Sliwinski, she asked him
what happened and the officer responded, “A man just shot himself in the head
beside your house.”
The neighbourhood is generally
peaceful, Sliwinksi added.
“It’s the kind of place people want to
raise their kids . . . I haven’t seen or heard of anything happening like
this.”
Jenyon himself was a father to two
young children, a boy and a girl, Middleton said. She last spoke with him on
the phone Friday night.
“(Jenyon) just said he was watching TV
with my grandson, he’s three . . . (My grandson) came on the phone and I said,
‘What are you doing?’ and he said, ‘I’m watching TV with dad.’”
Middleton’s younger son, Claren Troy
Middleton, was also shot to death. On Oct. 23, 2015, Durham police found the
25-year-old’s body in a field in Pickering. Claren was also a
father. His torched car was later found by the waterfront in Oshawa.
In March, Durham police arrested
Terrance Bent charged him with accessory after the fact to murder, arson and
indignity to a body. No one else has been charged in the case.
For Middleton, there’s no closure with
either death.
“For all this time, with Claren . . .
and now they’re both gone,” Middleton said. “Oh, God. I don’t know. I j
ust
can’t.”
“I need to know what happened to
(Jenyon) . . . It’s just friggin’ killing me.”
With files from Jake Kivanc
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