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A 13-year-old boy has been charged with manslaughter and an 18-year-old man with criminal negligence in the shooting death of 14-year-old Lecent Ross last month. While the charges have brought ...
Lecent Ross has been named as the 14-year-old girl who was shot in the face while she played with a friend's gun in Toronoto. She just graduated from Greenholme.
A 15-year-old who pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death in the 2015 fatal shooting of a teenage girl received a three-year sentence — but will only serve six more months in custody.
Ever since Lecent Ross was fatally shot in a Jamestown townhome in 2015 at the age of 14, her mother Alicia Jasquith wanted to be buried next to her. Now, after Jasquith's own death, her community ...
A broken Alicia Jesquith resolutely anticipated seeing her “smart, outspoken” 14-year-old daughter Lecent Ross today - almost a week after she was shot and killed.
Friends, family and neighbours of 14-year-old Lecent Ross, who was shot and killed Thursday morning, came together to remember the young teen and grieve.
Lecent Ross, 14, went to visit a friend at a neighbouring Jamestown townhouse on a July morning in 2015. They were in a bedroom when a gunshot rang out. The bullet killed Lecent almost instantly. The ...
When she died Thursday in Rexdale, Lecent Ross was a girl poised on the edge of womanhood.
A teen found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, 14-year-old Lecent Ross was sentenced to six more months of open custody and another year of ...
A pastor in Toronto's northwest pleaded with his community Friday to stop gun violence in the wake of 14-year-old Lecent Ross's death. "We have to put a stop to the violence," said Keaton Austin, a ...
Lecent Ross was, by all accounts, a wonderful, lively and beautiful young girl, a straight “A” student who already had aspirations of becoming a lawyer. She was shot and killed Thursday ...
Given the charges, it appears the 13-year-old boy was handling the gun. An 18-year-old male has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and other firearms offences including careless ...