Mississauga Boy Remembered Two Years After Falling To Death

Two years hasn’t been nearly long enough for family and friends of six-year-old Gary Henry to stop grieving.

On Sunday night, the Mississauga community that was shocked when the boy fell seven floors from his apartment to his death, attempted to keep their lost loved one’s memory alive.

“There’s not one moment I don’t think about him,” said Gary’s mother, Simone Richards.

“Each day it’s harder and harder, it’s not getting easier for me.”

In honour of the boy, family members sang songs and lit candles for a six-year-old lost far too soon.

Gary was at the apartment’s corner window trying to get the attention of some friends when he plunged to his untimely death.

Richards says the window in her apartment that Gary fell through did have a safety lock, but it was faulty.

“The lock was rusty and they told me they were going to come back and they never did,” she said.

It’s a tragedy not limited to Richards in its impact. The impression the boy made before his death and in it is still very visible on the faces of many family members.

“Gary was so happy a kid,” said his grandmother Dorothy Barty.

“Sometimes I don’t even like to talk about him … I’ll never see that face again.”

Gary’s death was determined to be an accident and his mother has since moved, though she hopes her experience will serve as a powerful warning to others.

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