When the bullets first started flying that July 16, 2012, they devastated the community and rocketed the neighbourhood into an unwanted public spotlight. “All her friends were waiting for her,” Charles said. “Back then, she was the life of the family.”Īfter spending the day with her family, Charles’s granddaughter made her way back south, towards home, to Danzig Street, near Lawrence Avenue East and Morningside Avenue, for a community barbecue there. The teen with long dark hair and her own sense of style was always singing and dancing to everything from jazz to reggae, helping out with her younger siblings as the eldest child, and planning, always planning, for her future. The witty, energetic 14-year-old was the pulsing heartbeat of her tight-knit family, her grandfather Tyrone Charles remembered this week. The first was for her uncle’s birthday hosted at her grandfather’s house, northwest of her Scarborough home, near Kingston and Galloway roads. Shyanne Charles went to two barbecues that night.
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