"When the guns fell silent, a man lay dead. Another man riddled with bullets escaped with his life. Two teens fled, but in the small northern Ontario community, they really had nowhere to go. Ginoogaming First Nation, a remote community of 200 people living in 90 homes, is not the kind of place that usually makes headlines. It is a 68-square-kilometre Anishnawbe reserve, tucked just south of the TransCanada Highway and next door to the tiny lakeside town of Longlac."
"Within hours of the shooting, the community, a 3 -hour drive northeast from Thunder Bay, was in lockdown as police launched a search for the two suspects. The incident made national news. Details of the shooting are still foggy. The Ontario Provincial Police and the local Anishinabek Police Service are not discussing the particulars. The community and the survivor say it was about drug trafficking. But when police arrested the teens two Black youth from Brampton, Ont., one aged 15, the other 18 what happened took on a sharper focus."
"Parents, activists and police all say that for years Black teenagers, sometimes as young as 13, have been going missing in the GTA. But they are not runaways. These boys have been groomed and lured into drug trafficking gangs with promises of money and status. The adult traffickers use the boys as disposable mules, cash cows and legal shields. Often, they only emerge when police raid squalid drug dens, called trap houses, in communities far from their homes, families and lives."
Ginoogaming First Nation, a remote Anishnawbe reserve of about 200 people in northern Ontario, experienced a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded. Two teenagers — later identified as Black youth from Brampton aged 15 and 18 — fled and were arrested after the community went into lockdown. Police agencies declined to release details, while community members and a survivor linked the violence to drug trafficking. Parents, activists and police report a pattern of Black boys from the Greater Toronto Area being groomed into drug gangs, trafficked to remote communities, and used as disposable mules and legal shields in trap houses.
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