Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.

Parents face first-degree murder charges in Brampton boy’s death
Published On Thu, 17 May 2012

Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.
The Canadian Press

A couple accused in the death of a 10-year-old boy are now facing upgraded charges of first-degree murder.

Police say the boy’s father Garfield Boothe and stepmother Nichelle Boothe-Rowe appeared in a Brampton court Thursday for the start of their preliminary hearing.

Both were formally charged with the upgraded counts.

Shakeil Boothe was found without vital signs at a Brampton home on May 27 last year and was declared dead a short time later.

Garfield Boothe was originally charged with failing to provide the necessities of life but that charge was later upgraded to second-degree murder.

Nichelle Boothe-Rowe was previously facing a manslaughter charge.

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  • Faust

    This kind of reporting won’t help your cause. If you attribute racial factors to this crime, then people will only be afraid that racial factors will be attributed to killers like Michael Rafferty and Russell Williams.

    • Williams

      “This kind of reporting won’t help your cause“.

      Not sure what you’re implying here with “this kind of reporting….“.

      The mainstream media (MSM) spins cartwheels in every direction NOT to include “racial identification” in news items, so you might consider this website as just filling in the blanks.

      Canada’s mostly imported Black population represent about 2% of our population, but this race seems to garner a great deal of attention in crime stories, and well beyond their statistical numbers based on proportion.

      The U.S. Department of Justice (FBI) keeps accurate records of all homicide rates in the United States.

      It’s no surprise to learn that 52% of ALL murders in the U.S. are committed by Black people (usually Black males) whose numbers represent about 5% (total U.S. Black population is 12.5%).

      Narrow the gap even further to ages of 14 yrs. to 50 yrs. old, and you’ll find perhaps a percentage of 2% or 2.5% for all U.S. Black males. That age range is most likely to commit murder and other violent crime against all races. To conclude on that item, many Black males should be considered dangerous people according to these statistics.

      You also mention Rafferty and Williams as two White killers in a country with an 84% White majority population. White murderers are such a rare event in Canada that they tend to stand out amongst visible-minority murders, and they’re usually the violent immigrants needlessly imported from other countries. So, let’s have a look at Toronto’s Most Wanted list, and see what we find:

      http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/mostwanted.php

      “…won’t help your cause“.

      LOL, I hardly think you care about “help(ing) the cause”, whatever that might be.

    • http://www.cireport.ca/ CIReport.ca

      This kind of reporting won’t help your cause.

      Whose cause are you referring to?