The Legacy of Jordan Manners

Crime Beat

Curiouscast

Society & Culture, True Crime, News, Documentary

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In May of 2007, 15 year old Jordan Manners was gunned down in a hallway at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, marking the first time a student was shot and killed inside a Toronto school. Catherine McDonald looks back at the murder, its impact on the community and his family, and how this tragic story led to a major review of school safety procedures. Premiered Apr 25, 2020 For more info, please go to ⁠⁠https://globalnews.ca/news/6826381/legacy-of-jordan-manners/⁠ Subscribe to Crime Beat TV HERE: ⁠⁠ https://youtu.be/W7reINgAdqI?si=EquL6wh0h2YSqTO6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Nancy. Before we begin today, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Crime Beat early and ad-free on Amazon music included with Prime.
0:12.0	A listener's note. The following episode contains coarse language, adult themes, and content of a violent and disturbing nature nature and may not be suitable for everyone.
0:22.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:26.7	On an unusually warm day in the spring of 2007, a 15-year-old boy was found lying in a stairwell
0:35.1	with a gunshot wound to his chest.
0:38.3	I was right there.
0:39.3	What did you see?
0:40.3	Nothing.
0:41.3	Just see me feeding away in front of me.
0:42.3	I tried to help him.
0:44.3	Was he conscious?
0:46.3	His eyes were open while he was shaking.
0:49.3	And were you trying to talk to him or give him CPR?
0:51.3	What were you doing?
0:52.3	No, I was trying to talk to him.
0:53.3	Like Jordan, don't die. I'm like, Jordan, don't die.
0:55.0	I might stay awake.
0:58.0	Glory, and helps coming.
1:00.0	The grade 9 student was rushed to hospital but later passed away.
1:05.0	His death marked the first time a student had been killed inside of a Toronto school. His story spurred a hunt for a
1:13.6	killer, left a community in mourning, and led to a review of safety in schools.
1:19.6	Make it right for my nephew, make it right for my sister, make it right for his brother and his sisters,
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