another somali teen killed

[sheekh-Farax-zero]

HENRY STANCU/TORONTO STAR

Sirad Mohamed lost her husband and elder son to violence. Now, son Ayoob Adam has been killed.

He was the last male in the family to be killed but the first Canadian.

Ayoob Adam, 16, was visiting his aunt on the weekend on Dixon Rd., between Islington and Kipling Aves., when he heard a commotion below, between the highrises.

He went down to investigate and ended up fatally stabbed in the chest.

"Wrong place, wrong time," his grieving mother, Sirad Mohamed, 52, said yesterday, dressed head-to-ankles Somali style in black robes at her apartment, several kilometres east of the crime scene.

In 1992, the boy's father disappeared in Mogadishu soon after the Somali civil war broke out, she said. His body was never recovered.

That same year, the boy's older brother was killed on his way to Yemen trying to escape the fighting, she said.

Three daughters, in their early 20s, complete the family.

Canada was to be their safe refuge.

Shortly after Adam went downstairs, at around 5a.m. Sunday, police responded to sounds of gunfire at 340 Dixon Rd.

They found Adam on the ground behind the building along with another youth, who had been shot.

Both were taken to hospital.

Adam was pronounced dead.

The other victim remains alive but police have not released his name or details of his condition.

No witnesses have come forward, Adam's mother said, leaving her with almost no information about what took place.

Her features pinched and lined, she stood at her apartment door surrounded by similarly dressed women who helped comfort her and translated, while others occasionally arrived with bowls of salads and platters of hot food covered in foil.

"This has to be stopped," the mother said quietly of the youth violence plaguing the community. "Nobody is helping."

On the family's arrival in Canada, they moved to the Kingsview Complex on Dixon Rd., one friend said.

Mohamed volunteered at the community centre.

Adam made lasting boyhood friendships, which he kept up after the family moved several years ago to the Jane St. and Highway 401 area.

Adam was in Grade 11 at Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate Institute, on Falstaff Ave., a school of 400 students with the motto, "Good things come from small schools."

"We need a stepping stone," said one woman who declined to give her name but said her nephew was "gunned down" in 2005.

"We live in a ghetto," she said.

"The system is designed for us to stay here. Our kids are at risk every day. There are no jobs for them. Their only opportunity is to be killed."

Another woman said security cameras might have made up for uncooperative witnesses, but the complex has none.

The killing, said a third, calls to mind the shooting last year in nearby Lawrence Heights of 18-year-old Abdikarim Ahmed Abdikarim. It was caught on video but the quality was too poor to positively identify the shooter or his companion.

Five survivors of that shooting sustained wounds but all refused to testify, and the jailed suspects were released.

[SummerRain]

AUN,

Xafadaas iyo meesha kale ee Jamestown ku sheegan wa qashin wallahi. I dont understand why they live there.

[Somalian_Boqor]

AUN

Now that is sad indeed.

I hope it's not other Somalis that stabbed that kid to death.

[Babygirl-]

AUN,

I heard a guy in Seattle was killed by Xabashi?

[DANGIRL]

He went down to investigate and ended up fatally stabbed in the chest.

He should have continued going the other way and minded his own business.

[Alluring]

He went down to investigate and ended up fatally stabbed in the chest.

He should have continued going the other way and minded his own business.

Exactly,

This just proves Somalis aren't true blacks. A black person would have been no where in sight, if they heard that notice.

AUN.

[Somalian_Boqor]

AUN,

I heard a guy in Seattle was killed by Xabashi?

Haven't heard anything.

But as reer Seattle we always welcome the death of a loser in the community.

[razzberry]

He should have continued going the other way and minded his own business.

I agree. I’m not one to walk away if I hear someone in need of help but I wouldn’t just roll up on the scene. I would have went inside and then called the cops.

Still. It’s a sad thing that happened to the poor guy.

[S-D-M]

U can't be living in the slums and ghettos and expect to be safe.

When I first move here one of the qaraabo was like "why are u paying $$$$$$ for that apartment when U can pay $$$ In this area (ghettos).

I rather pay higher rent then live unsafe place....

AUN maskin ilaahna samir iyo imaan hakasiyo qarabadiisa

[Advo]

AUN,

I heard a guy in Seattle was killed by Xabashi?

Haven't heard anything.

But as reer Seattle we always welcome the death of a loser in the community.

True that walle, we sure do welcome the death of those losers...always creating fights at weddings, events, parties, social gatherings and they cant fight for shid, always running for their guns, live by the gun, die by the gun.

btw, RIP to that guy....wrong place, wrong time.

[Somalian_Boqor]

Advo do you know who it is?

Is it one of the crazy kent kids?

[Ms.Erudite]

AUN...

Why do people keep saying wrong time?....It was his time to go.

[sheekh-Farax-zero]

AUN,

I heard a guy in Seattle was killed by Xabashi?

that is too sad,, are Habashis even killing us in the states?

[Somalian_Boqor]

AUN,

I heard a guy in Seattle was killed by Xabashi?

that is too sad,, are Habashis even killing us in the states?

The guy was Hawiye marka I think they the Xabashi think they got rights over Hawiye to kill them where they are.

j/k don't even know the kids qabil and it sure doesn't matter.

[Babygirl-]

AUN,

I heard a guy in Seattle was killed by Xabashi?

that is too sad,, are Habashis even killing us in the states?

The guy was Hawiye marka I think they the Xabashi think they got rights over Hawiye to kill them where they are.

j/k don't even know the kids qabil and it sure doesn't matter.

So u heard? he was Hawiye.