Toronto-- “She was very bloody, her face and upper chest were covered in blood”. That’s the description firefighter Michael Gilmor gave Tuesday in the trial surrounding the shooting death of 15 year old Jane Creba.
Gilmor, a 20 year veteran, was describing the chaotic scene surrounding the young girl as she lay dying on Yonge street after being caught in the cross-fire of two rival groups shooting at each other. “There was a lot of shouting and yelling,” he said. “I was looking for her wound. At the time I couldn’t find exactly where the wound was.”
Creba was out shopping on boxing day of 2005 when gunshots rang out sending pandemonium up and down the City’s busiest street on its busiest day. “People were running in different directions and hiding in doorways,” he told prosecutor Maurice Gillezeau.
Creba’s death shocked the City because of the randomness and the brazen nature of a shootout in broad daylight.
Louis Raphael Woodcock and Tyshaun Barnett, both 22, have pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder charges they are both facing in the matter.
Creba’s death inspired outrage throughout the city as many felt Toronto violence had reached a painful crescendo and had to be finally addressed.
Others felt, that the reaction was racially motivated because Creba was white and the men suspected in her death were overwhelmingly black.
The trial continues.
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