Almost 10,000 people have signed an online petition to rename Eight Street Park after Jordon Carter.
More than 9,000 people have signed an online petition to rename Eight Street Park after the late local skateboarder Jordon Carter.
March 20 will mark 26 months since Carter, 15, was shot dead by a 13-year-old boy in a Scarborough parking garage.
Many of his friends and well-wishers in South Etobicoke have since been calling for the popular park to be renamed after Carter, who taught many young people the joys of skateboarding there.
Thousands of his friends and those who loved him have signed the petition to keep his name alive.
Jordon, who was shot to death in January 2022 in Scarborough, taught many youngsters how to skateboard.
A park bench has also been sponsored by well-wishers near the park where he will best be remembered.
Carter, who is the city’s eighth murder victim of 2022, had many friends in the Beach community, as he had been raised by his grandmother there.
He is remembered as a young man with a bright future and had a scholarship to one of Toronto’s most prestigious private schools.
His friends and well-wishers have been lobbying to have Eight Street Park renamed the Jordon Carter Park.
His friends said he made “everyone laugh and smile” and cared about seeing the people he taught to skateboard succeed.
A memorial poster said his “energy was inspiring and he truly had a creative nature to everything he did.”
Carter, who was always seen on a skateboard, had many friends who lit up social media to mourn his loss.
He was so beloved that more than $15,000 was raised in a Go Fund Me page to help with the funeral services.
“He was a talented young man who loved skateboarding,” fund organizer Krista Langille wrote at the time. “He was a beautiful soul who was loved his friends and anyone who ever met him. We are all devastated by this loss.”