Mario Giddings was supposed to start Grade 11 at Weston Collegiate Institute on Tuesday morning.
Instead, those who knew and loved him are mourning his death.
Toronto’s 59th murder victim of 2024 has been identified as Mario Giddings, 15, of Toronto. (TPS photo)
The 15-year-old boy was fatally shot on Monday evening in the parking lot of a plaza just across the street from the 12 Division police station, near Black Creek and Trethewey drives.
Fortunada Giddings is Mario’s aunt and guardian.
“What I want is justice for him. I want the police to arrest that person who do that to (Mario) because he didn’t deserve to die like that,” she told CTV News Toronto on Tuesday afternoon.
Giddings said she’d been looking after Mario for five years as his parents live in St. Lucia.
They live in an apartment building next door to the plaza where the shooting occurred, and she actually saw medics giving CPR …