8-year-old boy killed after being shot in car, Halifax police say The young boy was killed earlier this week, in a brazen shooting in Dartmouth.
Despite his young age, Lee-Marion had already made a huge impression on his tight-knit Nova Scotia community of North Preston.He was a Grade 3 student at Nelson Whynder Elementary School, where a memorial of teddy bears and notes continues to grow.
Halifax Regional Centre for Education said the school will open Friday to offer support for students.“He was a special sweet boy,” Juliette Thomas, a member of the Dalhousie Outreach Dental Clinic in the school, told Global News.Thomas went on to say “Mar Mar” was always giving high-fives or hugs “with his big contagious smile, cool with swagger and.