Narendra Ramdharry was killed Tuesday night after he was shot twice in the back as he sat in a car a few blocks away from a building, not far from Humber College.
TORONTO – An Indo-Canadian man was gunned down near a College in Toronto and his father Wilfred Ramdharry said Thursday he is still in shock.
His 26-year-old son, Narendra, was killed Tuesday night, shot twice in the back as he sat in a car a few blocks away from a building, not far from Humber College, reported Toronto Sun newspaper.
Wilfred struggled to find the words when asked about his boy.
“He was loving,” he said, leaning against a wall just outside his Rexdale apartment. “He was very hard-working. Very respectable.”
But Wilfred said there is still so much they don’t know about the circumstances surrounding his death. Narenda, who was called “Terry” by family and friends, lived on his own and Wilfred said he doesn’t know who he was with when he was killed.
“They’re still doing the investigation,” he said of police efforts to track down the killer.
Wilfred’s brother Al said detectives have told the family that Terry was in a rental car Tuesday night with a group of people when the shooting occurred. The person sitting behind him fired the fatal shots through the seat into his back, he said.
“We don’t know if there was an argument or there was a confrontation between him and the occupants of the car,” Al said.
Police said when they arrived they found Terry lying on the ground outside of the car on Alba Pl. around 8 p.m. Neighbours reported hearing between four and five shots.
Al said his nephew was working as a forklift operator and appeared to be on a good path in life. But given the circumstances surrounding his death, the family is concerned he got mixed up with the wrong people, he said.
“When your kid is not living with you, you can’t know what his activities are out there,” he said. “You only pray to God. In a place like this, where you hear all this criminal activity is going. You hear someone gets knifed or shot, you hope it’s not your child.”
As for the person responsible for his death, Al says the family can’t comprehend why they would pull the trigger and end Terry’s life.
“That’s one of the things we’re trying to piece together,” he said. “It’s another young life that’s gone to waste.”
