On his 19th birthday, Shaquane Stewart fled a Toronto Police takedown in a quiet North York neighbourhood.
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He’d armed himself with a gun, he was walking through a residential neighbourhood, he’d discarded his weapon in a school yard, of all places, where tragedy could surely have followed.Shaquane Stewart was 19 when he tossed his loaded Smith and Wesson .40 calibre handgun with an over-capacity magazine in a North York schoolyard while running from the cops on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018.
Copeland also found he was negatively affected by gun violence — he grew up in dangerous subsidized housing where gunshots were a common fact of life and his sister’s partner, who had acted as a father figure, was shot and paralyzed.
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