Editor's note: The author of this article and Mohamed Sow were acquainted on Facebook through a mutual friend. The violent death of Sidi Mohamed Sow earlier this month has left his family and friends in disbelief. (Submitted by the Sow family)The night of the shooting, Mohamed told his parents he would be playing basketball with some friends as he had been doing every Friday during the pandemic. She recalled one time in winter when she forgot her jacket at school, Mohamed gave her his. Taijah Lawrence-Scott was friends with Mohamed at Rockcliffe Middle School in Toronto and herself survived a gunshot wound when she was 20.

Source: CBC News July 26, 2020 07:52 UTC