Residents of an encampment in Kingston, Ont., say the two men who were killed there last week didn’t see eye to eye, nor even like each other very much, but that didn’t stop one from running to the other’s aid when the violence broke out.
Their friends say that willingness to stand up for one another despite their differences shows what kind of people the victims were, and what kind of community had formed among those living in the tents and makeshift shelters where the deadly attack occurred.
“That’s why it was them that it happened to, because they stuck their necks out so everybody else wouldn’t get hurt,” said Mathew Jeffrey, who knew both victims.
“I’ve just cried and cried and cried. I couldn’t stop crying.”
Taylor Wilkinson, 38, and John Hood, 41, were killed in a spree of violence near Montreal Street and the Belle Park encampment on …