"HELL WOULD REFUSE HIM"
Moms shocked at arrest
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..Beverley Francis weeps and clutches a photo of her son, Jahmeel Spence, during a press conference announcing that Mark Moore has been charged in her son's murder. (DAVE THOMAS/Toronto Sun).. ..TORONTO - Tears flowed freely down the cheeks of Beverley Francis.
Emotion so choked her that she was barely able to say what she wanted Tuesday after discovering the man alleged to have killed her son Jahmeel Spence — the second son she lost to violence — also faces charges of killing three others.
"My heart hurts," she said. "Somebody else has come back and taken another piece.
"I'm shocked," Francis said when she realized there were three other families in the room with her to hear that Mark Garfield Moore, 27, is charged with killing them.
"Right now, I hate him with a passion," the usually gentle woman said of the accused killer. "He didn't know my son. The first shot killed him and he shot him six more times."
Joanna Simmons, mother of Mike James, said she prays that if the suspect has any children, "they don't end up animals like him.
"For me, the past year, I had to force myself to go on," Simmons said. "I don't feel like getting up in the morning. I basically have to force myself to live.
"Hell would refuse him," she said of the accused.
"I hope he gets what he deserves," Dorothy Cole, wife of murder victim Carl, said. "I'll never see my husband again."
The victims' families shared family photos and spoke of tender memories.
"It's overwhelming. A big chunk of our life was taken from us," Cole said of her husband of 27 years. "Things will never be the same."
Cole's twin sister Carol said part of her is missing. "We came together in the world and we came together to Canada."
Toronto police to reveal results of major homicide probe
Toronto police Chief Bill Blair will hold a news conference Wednesday to reveal the results of a major investigation into crimes including a number of homicides.
Blair is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. at police headquarters.
Toronto police have released few details, other than to say that Blair will be speaking about "Project Summit
MAP: Toronto homicides in 2011
Toronto man charged with four murders
Mark Garfield Moore, 27, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for a series of fatal shootings in Toronto between June and November in 2010. (Handout)
Mark Moore has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Jahmeel Spence, Courtney Facey, Mike James and Carl Cole. All were murdered in 2010 between June and November.
Police are announcing details live on CP24 right now.
More to come…
