Throughout the day Monday, they canvassed the neighbourhood looking for witnesses and surveillance footage.Īlong Jamestown Cres. Police are investigating the possibility the shooter or shooters then travelled eastbound on John Garland. It was as the vehicle was stopped that one or more shooters approached the car and unleashed an unknown number of bullets.īobb was seated in the back of the car at the time of the shooting, Carbone said, adding that none of the people inside left the vehicle, and none of the occupants were known to police. The quartet then travelled to the east end of the city where they went to a basketball game.Īround 11 p.m., they returned to the Jamestown and John Garland area, not far from Toronto’s western border with Mississauga, to drop off one of the occupants of the vehicle. Around 8 p.m., Bobb and two others travelled together in a vehicle to Jamestown Cres. No one would hate her.”Ĭarbone provided a loose sketch of the hours leading up to the shooting. “I know for a fact she wasn’t the target because she had no enemies. One person close to Bobb, who asked not to be named, said Bobb “didn’t deserve this.” Several of Bobb’s family members and friends requested privacy when contacted by the Star on Monday. Mike Carbone could only say the car in which Bobb was riding was targeted, “for a reason only known to the offender at this point.” Chief among them: who killed Bobb, and why.Īsked if someone specifically wanted Bobb dead, Lead investigator Det.-Sgt. Homicide detectives probing the death - Toronto’s 29th in 2016, nearly double the number at this time last year - stressed they are in the early stages of the investigation. It really will, I hope, redouble our efforts to deal with all of these kinds of incidents.” “I want to express my sympathies to her friends and to her family and my heart goes out in particular to her baby - no baby should come into this world without a mother. Ron Taverner, who heads the police division that includes Rexdale, called the violence “just disgusting.” in the northern Etobicoke neighbourhood of Rexdale in recent years. Police have not released any information about the child other than that it is in stable condition.īobb and her infant are the latest victims of a surge in violent crime in Toronto this year, hers yet another name added to a growing list of people killed on Jamestown Cres.
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The driver went immediately to Etobicoke General Hospital, where doctors pronounced Bobb dead, but successfully delivered her baby via an emergency C-section. She was the only one of four occupants who was shot. Late Sunday night, Bobb, known as Rochelle, was a back seat passenger in a car parked near Jamestown Cres. If it survives, the four-months premature infant - a boy, according to a family source who did not want to be named - will never meet its mother, never hear her stories or feel her warmth. Instead, her baby is fighting for its life inside Sunnybrook hospital. She was awaiting the arrival of her third this fall. Her eldest turns 16 this week, her second is 12 years old. She was warm, loving and constantly available to support her relatives in need.Ĭandice Rochelle Bobb, 35, of Malton, was nothing if not family oriented, according to those who knew her, a characteristic most evident when it came to her kids. She was the centre of all family events - a shameless extrovert who captivated those around her with the hilarious stories she had in spades.
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