Vigil for Kesean

Kesean Williams was only nine-years old when he was gunned down exactly one year ago. The Hamilton boy had just moved to Brampton with his mother and brother when a shot fired through his front window hit him in the head while he sat on the couch. Thursday evening, a vigil was held for Kesean in the Hamilton park he frequently played in. And with police now offering a reward to help find those responsible, Kesean’s mother is pleading for justice.

It’s difficult to keep a candle lit in the brisk winter wind. And it’s seems hardly possible to keep hope when a young life like Kesean’s is taken so violently. But with loving support, Kesean’s mother Tanya Garvey has somehow done both: “We’re all just here celebrating Kesean’s life. He’s gone but he’s not forgotten and we want him to know that. ”

Family and friends honoured Kesean’s memory through prayer: “It’s very, very cold so it shows how much we love and we really just miss this young man that has been a blessing to so many people’s lives.”

And celebrated his life through release.

As a colourful display of balloons danced over the park where Kesean once played, the absence of the boy his mother describes as sweet, innocent and loving is sorely felt:
“He was just wonderful and I just want people to know that he didn’t deserve to die in such a tragic way like he deserve to have such a horrible thing happen to him. We moved to Brampton, we didn’t hurt anybody. Whoever you are turn yourself in. God’s watching you.”

Security video shows kesean walking into a YMCA with his mother a couple hours before he was killed. Sometime before10:30pm that night Garvey left her home to get a printer for Kesean’s school project. She returned to the unimaginable.