VIEGAS
VIEIRA
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VIEGAS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-22 published
PEREIRA,
Jacinto
Santana
Peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving family on September 20,
2006 at the age of 75. Jacinto loving husband of Reynah. Beloved
father of Maria
PEREIRA,
Franca
VIEGAS and her husband Errol
and Nicole
D'CUNHA and her husband Joseph. Cherished grandpa
of Mikaela, Nicholas and Declan. Dear brother of the late Anita,
Aramita, Remedios, Rosario and Lourdes. Sadly missed by sisters-in-law
May and her husband Ian, Greta and Etelvina, and many loving
nieces, nephews, family and Friends. Friends may visit at the
Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home and Chapel, 467 Sherbourne St. (south
of Wellesley) on Friday from 5-9 p.m. Mass of Christian burial
will be celebrated on Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Basil's Roman
Catholic Church, 50 Saint_Joseph St. Interment to follow at Holy
Cross Cemetery. If so desired, donations to the Canadian Diabetes
Association would be appreciated.
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VIEIRA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-29 published
Trying to reconcile a man's life and death
Friends are wondering how a college student from a good family
ended up shot dead by police, writes Anthony
REINHART
By Anthony
REINHART,
Page
A11
Toronto -- Until a couple of weeks ago, anyone who knew the real
Shelton McKENZIE would have expected to find him out clubbing
last night, toasting his 21st birthday on some Toronto dance
floor in smooth urban attire and a fresh pair of Jordans.
Instead, his Friends dressed for a visitation yesterday at a
funeral home in his hometown of Ajax, east of Toronto, to file
past Mr. McKENZIE's coffin and wonder whether they really knew
him at all.
Specifically, they've been wondering how Mr.
McKENZIE -- who
came from a middle-class suburban family, who worked as a produce
clerk through high school, who had young women lining up for
his ever-respectful attention, and who took police courses in
college just last fall -- wound up shot dead by police this month.
It happened just before dawn on Thursday, April 13, near an upscale
home in the Thornhill community north of Toronto, where the
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
family had just endured a home invasion robbery.
York
Regional
Police arrived as Mr.
McKENZIE and another person
fled in the
THOMPSONs' pickup truck. Officers opened fire on
the truck, killing Mr.
McKENZIE.
The second man ran off and holed
up in another home and was arrested within hours.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which probes deaths and
injuries related to police, is still examining the killing of
Mr. McKENZIE.
But York police have linked the two men to five home invasions
in and around Toronto since late February, including the gunpoint
robbery of Sherry
COOPER, chief economist at
BMO
Nesbitt
Burns,
and her husband, Peter.
As she squinted through the murk of predawn to find two masked
men standing in her bedroom, Ms.
COOPER felt surprised, bewildered
and terrified on the morning of March 13.
Police say Mr.
McKENZIE was one of the two mud-splattered men
standing before her and her husband. The pair had broken into
the COOPERs' ravine-side home in Hogg's Hollow, an exclusive
enclave in North Toronto.
They bound the couple with duct tape, ransacked the house and
fled with cash, jewellery, computers and BlackBerrys.
Their masks, and the shock that gripped the
COOPERs, made them
all but impossible to identify.
"We refer to the 'old guy' and the 'young guy' when we speak
to each other, or the 'big guy,' Ms.
COOPER told The Globe
and Mail, "and we're not even sure we're referring to the same
people."
Ms. COOPER, 55, was also caught without her glasses or contact
lenses. "I'm not blind without my glasses, but it was pleasingly
fuzzy, believe me. I didn't particularly want to be 100-per-cent
conscious."
She was conscious enough, however, to talk her way to some relief
after one of the men, armed with a gun, pinned her to the bed.
"He said he wanted jewellery and I said, 'Let me show you… where
it is,' Ms.
COOPER said. "So, fortunately, that got us to stand
up and walk in there" to where her valuables were stored.
The couple were led downstairs and taped to a pillar. One man
stood guard, pointing a gun at them, the other combed the house,
selecting items to fill his backpack and tossing others to the
floor.
Asked whether either man seemed like a novice, or a junior partner,
Ms. COOPER had this to say about the one who stood guard: "Until
the very end I would have thought that he was more nervous, and
that he wasn't as aggressive, he wasn't a leader," she said.
"However, at the end, I managed to get myself out of the tape,
and it was that stand-guard guy that saw me. And then he grabbed
me and, you know, pulled me up the steps and told me, now he's
going to have to hurt me, now he's going to have to shoot me,
and he threw me down on the floor and said he was going to have
to shoot me.
"And it was the other one who said, 'Take her back downstairs.'
So they just retaped us."
"There wasn't, like, a good cop and a bad cop; there wasn't a
leader and a follower," she said. "They were brutal. They clearly
hated us, just [because of] what we had."
But for the people who knew or encountered Shelton
McKENZIE,
nothing is very clear. No one -- from coaches and former co-workers
to Friends and the police themselves -- has been able to reconcile
the way he lived with the way he died.
"I really don't know how or why he became involved," Detective
Sergeant Fred
MOFFATT of York's holdup squad said, adding that
police have seen more young people from trouble-free backgrounds
jumping "right into doing robberies."
Sometimes the goal is to win acceptance from a gang. Others are
dragged in by underworld creditors, such as drug dealers.
"I don't know if that's the case here, so I would never say that,"
Det. Sgt. MOFFATT said. "We're still investigating and still
trying to figure out exactly where he comes from. But yeah, it's
a mystery."
Mr. McKENZIE's parents, who have requested privacy from reporters,
are "just blown away" by what happened, said Lance
BROWN, their
pastor at Refuge City Pentecostal Church in Ajax. "I knew Shelton.
He was a great kid," Mr.
BROWN said.
At the No Frills on Kingston Road in Pickering, Tony
CORNACCHIA
recalled how Mr.
McKENZIE "always asked for as many hours as
I could give him" in the produce department, where he was the
most experienced part-timer, until he left the job a year ago.
"I left him in charge quite a few times, on evenings and weekends."
Mr. CORNACCHIA remembered driving the young man home to his parents'
relatively new house in west Ajax, where he lived with an older
brother, a younger brother and a sister. He described the family
as hard-working and strict, particularly the mother, who insisted
that her son help pay his own way.
"It seemed like they were a very disciplined family," he said,
and when he heard the news of Mr.
McKENZIE's death, "I was surprised
just like everyone else."
Ms. COOPER had trouble squaring the wholesome image of Mr.
McKENZIE
with the man who caused her to feel such terror that morning,
a terror that she said has changed her life forever.
"It is inconceivable to me that some normal, 20-year-old, good
kid finds himself just accidentally in this kind of situation,"
she said. "I have a son who's not much older than that and, honestly,
I just can't even fathom how you get yourself in that situation
unless you've been… involved with some real bad people for a
while."
If that's the case, Shelton
McKENZIE kept his secret life well
hidden.
At J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate, where he graduated in 2004,
basketball coaches Steve
DAWSON and Mike
McFETTERS stood in the
gym last week, puzzled.
"Whatever happened, we didn't see it coming," said Mr.
DAWSON,
a middle-aged man who traded easy, good-natured jibes with the
popular all-star nicknamed Springz for his jumping prowess.
Mr. McFETTERS said his star rebounder avoided situations that
looked like trouble and could take a beating on the court without
losing his cool.
"He wasn't a violent kid," he said, but acknowledged he'd seen
Mr. McKENZIE just three times, for a total of about 20 minutes,
in the two years since he left Richardson. The last time was
just before Christmas, when the young man dropped by the school
after his first semester in the police foundations program at
Durham College in Oshawa.
Mr. McFETTERS said Mr.
McKENZIE was conflicted over whether to
continue his studies, citing the cost and the commute as challenges.
"If he wasn't sure what he wanted to do, he didn't want to go
[back to college] until he could figure things out," the coach
said.
With that, he asked Mr.
McFETTERS about his wife and daughter,
and congratulated him on the impending birth of a second child.
With his death, "there's just questions that I don't know if
we're ever going to get the answers to now," the coach said.
Similar questions are circulating among Mr.
McKENZIE's
Friends,
236 of whom are linked to his profile on hi5.com, a Web gathering
place. Since his death, many have posted photos and comments,
written in the vernacular of on-line chat.
"i cant begin 2 understand y USA did wat USA did," wrote one. 'it
wasnt ur thing… it wasnt like u. buh im not tryna hold nothing
on u. Ire gota 4give u… even tho now ur gone 4ever."
Several young women claimed Mr.
McKENZIE as their dream man,
and gave accounts of long telephone conversations, nights out
dancing, tender moments and hopes for a future together.
In an interview this week, Jennifer
VIEIRA, 19, said Mr.
McKENZIE's
attractiveness was no mystery when she met him after the 2004
Caribana parade in downtown Toronto. He was not only well-dressed,
but also a gentleman.
"He said, 'I'll call you in a couple of hours,' and he actually
called me back later," she said. "He was coming off real. He
wasn't being fake at all."
What was real and what was fake is sure to cross the minds of
many at Mr.
McKENZIE's funeral this morning, inside the Revivaltime
Tabernacle in Pickering.
But inside the church and out, it seems, God only knows.
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FERNANDES,
Avelino
(January 28, 1929-February 16, 2006)
Of Fairview Nursing Home. Visitation 12 noon-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m.
Sunday at the Ryan and Odette Funeral Home, 1498 Dundas St. W.
at Dufferin, Toronto. Mass 1: 15 p.m. Monday at St. Helen's Church
to Prospect Cemetery. Mr.
FERNANDES, who died at St. Joseph's
Hospital, is survived by: wife
Maria; sister Gilberta
ALVES
(Joao)
brothers-in-law Eliuterio
VIEIRA
(Lurdes,)
Orlando
VIEIRA (Maria.)
Parking is no problem - simply enter from Dufferin, just north
of Dundas.
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VIEIRA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-02-11 published
VIEIRA-
AMBROSE,
Indya
Nancy
Born February 8, 2006 at North York General Hospital came into
Melissa AMBROSE and Aaron
VIEIRA's life at 24 weeks old and lived
for 12 minutes in our arms before she had to go again. She was
the beautiful granddaughter to Nancy and Tony
VIEIRA,
Robin
AMBROSE
and the wonderful niece to Jordan, Austin, Eden, Kaylee and Blaise.
In her short moment of life in this world she brought perfection
and peace to Melissa and my life. She will be forever remembered
and cherished and has made us all better people. God Bless my
little bug!
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VIEIRA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-12 published
D'ANDREA,
Albert
Passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 11, 2006 at the age
of 86. Beloved husband of the late Nancy (née
PERNA.)
Loving
father of Anna
COE and her husband Jim, and Mary-Lou
PICKEN and
her husband George. He will be sadly missed and remembered by
his grandchildren, Jennifer
HONEYBALL and her husband Jason,
Shannon VIEIRA and her husband David, and Robin
COE, along with
Albert's great-grandchildren, Sydney, Olivia, and Christian.
Dearly remembered by his sister Mary
MICELI.
Predeceased by his
brothers Ralph and Victor. He will also be greatly missed by
his many, many animal Friends. Family and Friends may call at
the Turner and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. W., at Windermere,
east of the Jane subway, from 7-9 p.m. on Monday. Funeral Mass
to be held at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 3055 Bloor St. W.,
on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 10: 30 a.m. Interment to follow
at Park Lawn Cemetery. Donations to the Humane Society would
be appreciated.
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VIEIRA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-06 published
SHIM,
Sylvia
Laura
Passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006, in her 86th
year, at the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital. Beloved wife of
Ronald SHIM with whom she spent 60 wonderful years; loving sister
to Rita VIEIRA and dearest sister-in-law to Maureen
SHIM,
Sylvia
LOQUAN, Eileen
CHEN, Roma
SHIM and Errol
SHIM. Most loving aunt
to Gerry and Denise, Leslie and Alison, Marisa and Ian and her
many other nieces, nephews and their families. In accordance
with Sylvia's wishes, a cremation has taken place. For those
who wish to pay their respects, a memorial service will be held
on Monday, April 10th at 10: 30 a.m. at the St. Elizabeth's Anglican
Church at 5324 Bromley Road in Burlington, Ontario L7L 3G4. In
lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer Society of Canada
would be appreciated by the family.
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VIEIRA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-09-20 published
Slain man had been shot in head before
By Tracy HUFFMAN,
Crime
Reporter
Police found the drug addict standing on King St. W. suffering
from gunshot wounds to the head, arm and shoulder.
Two years later that man -- Christopher James
WHITE/WHYTE -- was dying
on the floor of a flophouse in that same neighbourhood with another
gunshot wound to the head. That was Sunday morning. This time
he did not survive.
WHITE/WHYTE, 35, was well known in Parkdale, but homicide detectives
have very little information about where he was in the 12 hours
before the shooting, or who may be responsible for his murder.
"We have no witnesses. No motive," said Det. Dan
SHEPPARD of
the 5: 20 a.m. shooting.
Two years ago, when police found
WHITE/WHYTE standing in the same neighbourhood
with gunshot wounds, he likely knew who shot him but refused
to help with the investigation,
SHEPPARD said.
WHITE/WHYTE's slaying is one of three unrelated homicides in a 4½-hour
period Sunday morning.
Two hours later on Bridlington Street, near Bellamy and Ellesmere
Rds., a man found his 22-year-old son, Patrick
SANTOS, dead in
the backyard of the family home. Police remain tight-lipped about
the investigation, the man's cause of death and the motive behind
the killing.
Around 10 a.m. a third man was killed, struck by a car and then
repeatedly stabbed with a machete by the driver. Piratheep
THARMAKULASINGAM,
25, collapsed in front of a home on Huntsmill Blvd., near Steeles
Ave. E. and Warden Ave.
A first-degree murder warrant has been issued for Sujan
ABEYEWARDENE,
19, of Richmond Hill. Homicide detectives plan to release a photograph
of the wanted man today after showing it to potential witnesses:
yesterday.
"We have checked his known addresses… his home address, his place
of employment," said homicide Det. Bill
VIEIRA. "He has not been
found."
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VIEIRA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-10-29 published
Woman charged in axe killing
Victim died from blow to the head
By Moira WELSH,
Staff
Reporter
As a special constable for GO Transit, Dennis
HOY spent his
days collecting tickets on trains and keeping order when trouble
broke out.
HOY, 36, died early Friday morning when he was hit on the head
with an axe while visiting his girlfriend's apartment on The
Queensway, near Royal York Rd.
A 22-year-old woman, who rented a room in the apartment, has
been charged in his death.
Neighbours said they often saw
HOY's girlfriend and the woman
walking cocker spaniels along The Queensway. The two women appeared
to be very close, they said.
Toronto
Homicide detective Bill
VIEIRA said
HOY was a frequent
visitor to the apartment, adding police are still trying to determine
the nature of the relationships among the trio.
"The circumstances of these three individuals are going to play
an important role in the trial and are certainly going to become
part of the evidence as it comes to trial," he said.
Neighbours, however, said
HOY had been involved in a long-term
relationship with one of the women, who they said was named Nicky.
One woman said Nicky rented out her extra bedrooms to a series
of people over the years, leading to numerous disturbances and
calls to police."
The apartment is above a coin laundromat, and two stores down
from Anna MILONE's beauty shop, Empire Spa.
Nicky was a frequent customer,
MILONE said. "It is just unbelievable,
that this happened right here."
She said one of the neighbours heard shouting from the apartment
shortly after midnight.
VIEIRA said yesterday that the autopsy showed
HOY died from "blunt
impact trauma" to his head.
Ashleigh PECHALUK has been charged with second-degree murder.
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VIELANDER o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-11-17 published
MERCER,
Aubrey
John “Jack&rdquo
World War 2 Veteran
At the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound on Wednesday
November 15, 2006. In his 84th year, Aubrey John “Jack”
MERCER,
the loving husband of the late Willa Marguerite
MERCER (née
SMITH,)
and the late M. Eleanor
MERCER (née
DAY.)
Loving father of Donald
MERCER of Owen Sound, Coleen and her husband Dan
HARRINGTON,
of Guelph. Father-in-law of Mary Lou
MERCER of Owen Sound. Loved
Grandfather of Mark
HARRINGTON and his wife
Laurel of Halifax,
Paul HARRINGTON and Alescia
RICHARDSON of Waterloo, Michael
HARRINGTON
of Toronto, Christina
MERCER and John
VIELANDER of Calgary and
Anne and her husband Moona
RAHEMTULLA of Owen Sound. Proud great-grandfather
of Zarra. Dear brother of Bill and his wife Joyce and brother-in-law
of Beth BEAUSOLEIL and her husband Peter of Calgary. Fondly remembered
by his nieces and nephews and by Eleanor's family; Joyce, (Mrs. Arthur
CARR) and Ian. Predeceased by his son Wayne and by his sister
Marilyn (Mrs Jack
RUTHERFORD). Friends may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft
Funeral Home on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m.
A funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Monday
morning at 11 a.m. Rev. Ralph
SCHMIDT officiating. Members of
the Owen Sound Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6 are requested to
attend a memorial service at the funeral home on Sunday evening
at 6: 45 p.m. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery. As an expression
of sympathy, memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society
or the Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre Foundation would be
appreciated by the family.
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VIENNE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-06-01 published
MUIR,
James MacKelvie
son of James
MUIR and Estelle
HOLTHAM, passed away on Sunday,
May 28, 2006 in Courtenay, British Columbia of pulmonary failure.
He was a loving father to Deirdre (Courtenay) and James (Toronto),
grandfather to Madailein and Nolan
MUIR, and father-in-law to
Brian ALLAERT and Jessica
MUIR. He was predeceased by sisters
Emma, Jesse, Evelyn, and brother Ian, and survived by sister
Molly (Ottawa), former wife Elizabeth Gillan
MUIR (Toronto),
former partner Dianne DE
VIENNE
(New
Orleans) and life-long friend
David PANABAKER
(Bancroft.)
Born
December 27, 1929, in Almonte,
Ontario, Jim made Courtenay, on Vancouver Island, his home in
1992 after living for many years in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto
and Stratford. Jim's gift was with the written word with which
he could express thought deftly. He achieved the degree of Bachelor
of Journalism at Carleton University and spent the 50s as a newspaper
reporter and editor. In addition to stints at The Ottawa Journal,
the Nassau Guardian, and Kitchener-Waterloo Record, he was founding
editor of the Trentonian in Trenton, Ontario. He spent a decade
with Canadian National Railway in Public Relations and another
decade with Puerto Rico firm Public and Industrial Relations.
He was later self-employed and then moved to Stratford, Ontario,
where he co-managed a successful bed-and-breakfast Inn. He moved
to British Columbia in 1992 and, in retirement, occupied himself
with building and business projects and explored various aspects
of philosophy. Jim will be dearly missed by an extensive web
of Friends and acquaintances who were drawn to his optimistic,
fun-loving and gentle nature. In lieu of flowers, and knowing
the gratitude he would wish to express to those who cared for
him, Jim would welcome donations made in his name to Saint_Joseph's
General Hospital, Comox, British Columbia A Celebration Gathering
will be held in Courtenay, British Columbia, at The Elks Club,
231 6th Street, on Saturday, June 3rd at 12 noon. Yates Funeral
Service and Crematorium (250) 338-2922 in care of arrangements
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VIERLINGER,
Christine
Quietly at Toronto Western Hospital on Monday, March 6, 2006,
in her 90th year. Beloved wife of the late Heinz. She is survived
by her niece Renate and great-nephew Jason. Friends may call
at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. West, Toronto
(two lights west of Yonge), on Wednesday, March 8 from 6 to 8
p.m. Funeral Service in the Chapel on Thursday at 11 a.m. In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer
Society.
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