Tatianna, 5, holds a picture of her dad, Ronell Williams, also shown at right, who was shot dead after telling a man who was robbing guests to leave a birthday party in Brampton on Sunday. (Ernest Doroszuk, Sun Media)

Wonder who will explain to a 5-year-old girl named Tatianna that the man charged in her father's brutal shooting murder was the same guy wielding a handgun on the front cover of the Toronto Sun less than four years ago?

Wonder if Premier Dalton McGuinty will come to another young man's funeral and explain to that same 5-year-old daughter why for such a serious crime that same man charged in her dad's murder was free in the first place?

Or maybe the judge, who decided upon this sentence that allowed for parole, can give it a shot?

None of it is going to bring Ronell Williams back. He's as dead as you can get -- shot to death outside a birthday party in the Salisbury Circle and Queen St. area of Brampton Sunday.

And the guy charged with his murder, Andrew Dexter Bourne, is back on the front page again.

The last time was Feb. 12, 2004 under the headline "Sun photog nabs gun suspect."

That photog is gutsy Dave Thomas, who took the great picture first and tackled the suspect second. He did his job as a journalist and as a citizen. When the dust settled, Bourne, a cousin of recently slain teen Jordan Manners, was sentenced to 27 months in prison.

And yet there was another incident and more weapons charges and a conviction after a gun was drawn in a road rage incident just months later in 2005. There doesn't seem to have been much prison time served by Bourne, who is on federal parole and has been ordered to not possess a firearm. A handgun allegedly was taken off him after his arrest early Sunday.

Meanwhile, tears formed in her eyes as the little girl held the picture of her slain father.

"He lived for his daughter," Williams' mom Angela said last night. "He was such a good father."

Turns out the latest victim of Canada's sick justice system is Tatianna.

"I miss him," she said.

She will forever. It's just wrong since her dad was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Her mom, Barbara Durdle, has explained to her that her "daddy is in heaven" so they are pretty sure she gets the concept that she doesn't have her dad any more.

What she is too young to possibly understand is the man charged in his brutal shooting murder was a parolee who after repeated gun charges and convictions had been given a weapons ban.

Bourne will get his day in court and Lord knows he's been there before.

But Ronell Williams will still be dead. And Tatianna will still be fatherless.

"He was such a sweet boy," said his devastated mom, Angela. "He would do anything for anybody. All I want is to have him back."

The 27-year-old East York man, a recently laid off Chrysler worker who had no criminal record and had never had any contact with police, was gunned down at a birthday party that the suspect Bourne had allegedly just been kicked out of. "It is so senseless," said a police source. "Some people had been held up at gunpoint for their cellphones and wallets and when Ronell asked that person to leave he was filled full of bullets."

Bourne, who appeared in Brampton court yesterday and will return Sept. 24, has not been convicted of this horrific crime. But he has been convicted of others and it must be noted we did have him in custody for weapons convictions but chose to set him free.

It's something that is very troubling for the Peel Police homicide detectives who are working on this case. "We have to take a look at our justice system," said Insp. Norm English, a veteran cop who has investigated many terrible murders and is always looking for ways to prevent them.

He is frustrated how such a person could be on the loose so soon after being involved in so many serious crimes involving guns.

And while this case -- Peel's ninth homicide of 2007 -- is already as bad as it gets it actually had potential to be even worse. "When we took the suspect down he was reaching for his firearm which was retrieved at the time of the arrest," English alleged.

So we won't have a police funeral this time. But we will have another funeral for another young man. Maybe?

His family came to Canada nine years ago from Trinidad and has recently fallen on hard luck. Ronell was recently unemployed and so is his mother Angela Williams.

With funeral costs at $10,000 they are not sure what they are going to do and Peel Police are helping them apply for provincial assistance. I'd like to see Premier McGuinty, Opposition Leader John Tory and NDP Leader Howard Hampton suspend campaigning for a day and spend it with the Williams family at that funeral.

No matter who wins this election there has to be a commitment to fix this drastic epidemic of death because it is out of control and we should not tolerate it any longer. The tools are in place and the police are doing their jobs. It's the sentencing and access to bail that needs to be addressed.

There seems to be lots of money for cricket clubs so perhaps they could also find some extra coins to help bury our latest victim of the Summer of Death that is the year 2007?

An effort was also being made last night to create a trust fund at the TD Canada Trust branch at O'Connor and St. Clair to raise some money for the funeral costs and to help sustain young Tatianna, whose future has been severely affected. A special account should be set up by noon today for those who want to help the family out.

As a columnist I wonder when one of these families will embark upon suing the justice system in one of these cases?

Nothing has been proven in court this time and the family is in to much shock to even think about that. "He should not have been out on the street," said his mom. "They should have kept him inside. You can feel angry. But that is still not going to bring him back."