 Jordan Manners, 15, was shot dead at his high school in May 2007. (QMI AGENCY FILE)
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A teenaged boy gunned down at a Toronto high school was seen flirting with some girls in the hallway shortly before he was murdered, a jury heard Thursday morning.
Physical education teacher Tracey Galbraith testified she caught Jordan Manners and two other Grade 9 female students skipping classes standing at a first-floor stairwell shortly after 2 p.m. on May 23, 2007.
She ordered the three back to class and followed the 15-year-old Manners up the stairs to the third floor.
Less than 15 minutes later, Manners was fatally shot at the same stairwell where he’d been spotted by Galbraith.
The teacher was testifying at the trial of two men charged with first-degree murder in the 2007, shooting of Manners, who had just turned 15.
“Shortly after 2 p.m. on the last day of his short life, Jordan Manners sustained a gunshot wound in the middle of his chest. He was found at the base of a set of stairs in the middle of the school in the Keele and Finch area of the city,” said Crown attorney Aaron Del Rizzo.
The two, who were 17 at the time and are now 20, can’t be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The two men, known as JW and CD, are pleading not guilty.
Manners is the first child to be fatally shot in a Toronto school, he isn't the only victim in the country. But there have been other shooting fatalities in high schools across Canada.
The trial continues.
