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Missing York U student focus of downtown search
Dozens of people walked around downtown Toronto on Sunday to search for any sign of a missing York University student.

Shane Fair, 19, has been missing since last Friday when he failed to return home from a York University formal dinner and dance.

His mother, Lisa Malo, said it's not like her son to be out of touch with his family and friends.
He has a ton of friends and he's very sociable," she told CTV News. "It's very unusual for him to be missing for this long."

Fair missed his ride back home while at the Calumet Formal at the Atlantis Pavilion on May 16. He was supposed to board a bus back to York University but never made it.

He was last seen at around 12:30 a.m. in the Lakeshore Boulevard West and British Columbia Road area.

Fair, who is a reserve soldier with the Canadian Armed Forces, is described as being white, about 5'11", 170 lbs., with brown hair and a short Mohawk. He was wearing a blue suit with a blue shirt and blue tie when he went missing.

Fair was said to be looking forward to a training course with the Reserves that was to begin next week.

Sunday's search focused on parks, homeless shelters, construction sites and areas that are known for being active at night. They are searching the area east of Ontario Place as well in case Fair attempted to walk to his mom's house in Toronto's east end.

More than 2,500 people joined an online group on Facebook to chat about the missing man and co-ordinate search efforts.

A posting on the group wall said that there has been no activity on Fair's bank accounts or credit cards.

However, close friends of the teen said he is the type of person who liked to wander off alone.

One person on Facebook said Shane was sitting at the bar by himself when everyone was leaving. He was asked to come along but didn't. He wasn't on any of the three buses that headed back for the York University campus.

Fair's family is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his location. Anyone with information is being asked to contact police.


This breaks my heart.. ..once again..why do young men keep disappearing??



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This story is SOOO familiar, and I keep reading SO many cases that are basically the same-much like Justin's. A young man goes missing after being alone in a bar or nightclub. Here's a link to many similar cases being looked at:

http://www.sfkillers.com

yes! I was thinking of Justin..when I was reading it..

and the link..you put..wow just so many....this is something to take a serious look at..
I have heard of the smiley face.. I will read all the cases..thanks.

Signs of missing pal sought on lakefront

19-year-old who loved to stroll last seen at bar a week ago as formal at Ontario Place ended
At night's end Shane Fair sat at the bar alone.

It was past last call at his York residence's formal, and friends had already clambered aboard buses rented to return them to the York campus from the hall at Ontario Place.

Fair was wearing a light blue dress shirt and a new suit and tie, his brown hair buzzed into a short mohawk.

Although he could be loud and boisterous, his friends say he was in a quiet mood toward the end of the night. He liked to party and had been drinking, but wasn't "at his max."

Fair, 19, has not been seen since the first hours of May 16, when he left Ontario Place's Atlantis Pavilion and wandered alone out into the night.

No one knows for sure which way he headed, and there are fears he ended up in the lake, about three metres deep at the pavilion and seasonally cold, between 10C and 15C.

"It's difficult," said Fair's mother, Lisa Malo. "You always hate to imagine the worst. But here we are, with the worst in front of me."

On Thursday, police began scouring the lakefront with an underwater robot. But because Fair is 19 and foul play is not suspected, they are not actively looking on dry land.

With or without police, family and friends will meet at 1 p.m. today at the 51 Division station at Parliament and Front Sts. to walk along Queens Quay and the lake, handing out posters and looking for clues.

Fair is in the Canadian Forces reserves and planned to join the military full-time in June. He loved to walk – once hiking from York to his mother's home in the Beach to see how long it would take (7 1/2 hours). Friends think he decided to walk home after the buses going back to campus filled.

"It wasn't anything out of the ordinary for him to just go walking," said Nicole De Angelis, one of his best friends. "And he wasn't afraid of anything."

De Angelis said Fair is energetic with a zany sense of humour. "He's so funny and out there, and so strange and caring at the same time," he said.

Malo said her son was reportedly seen walking near Fort York, about a kilometre east of Ontario Place, between 2:30 and 2:45 a.m.

Malo said Fair had been very excited about the formal, and judging by Facebook photos of him at the event, "he had a great time."

Brian Fair spent yesterday afternoon bicycling along the lakefront putting up posters of his missing son. "I'm holding up," he said. "There's been some difficult moments."

Shane Fair is 5-foot-11 and roughly 170 lbs. Police ask anyone with information to please call 416-222-TIPS.



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Shane Fair's Body Recovered From Lake Ontario
By KJ Mullins.
Published 14 hours ago by ■ KJ Mullins

Shane was last seen Friday May 15th at the Calumet formal at at Atlantis Pavilions by Ontario Place. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-3100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477, 222tips.com, or by texting TOR and your message to 274637.
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The body of Shane Fair was pulled from Lake Ontario Saturday afternoon near Ontario Place in Toronto. Fair had been missing since May 16 after failing to board a bus back to campus after a school formal at Ontario Place.
York University had held a school formal at the Atlantis Pavilions at Ontario Place in Toronto which Shane Fair, 19, attended.

Fair should have been on the bus that returned students to the campus but never arrived. Friends have said that the young man had been drinking during the formal.

Friends and family have been searching the waterfront area of Toronto for the past two weeks hoping to find the reserve soldier. Their hope was dashed on Saturday when his body was found in Lake Ontario.

Fair was to begin a training course next week with the Canadian Armed Forces.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/273389

York U student's body pulled from Lake Ontario

May 31, 2009 09:33 AM
Adrian Morrow
Jesse McLean
Staff Reporters

Police have recovered the body of a York University student who vanished more than two weeks ago, in Lake Ontario close to where he was last seen.

Around 4 p.m. yesterday, a passer-by who spotted the corpse called officers to a bridge at Ontario Place near Lakeshore Blvd. and Exhibition Stadium, police said.

They have identified the body as that of 19-year-old Shane Fair.

Fair was last seen at Ontario Place's Atlantis Pavilion in the early morning hours of May 16. He had been attending an end-of-the-year party with classmates, but didn't board the bus back to campus.

There were no confirmed sightings of him after that.

Police don't know how Fair died, or how he ended up in the water.

"That's still a matter of open investigation," said Det. Scott Purches. "We don't have anything conclusive."

The body has been taken to the morgue for autopsy.

Police said Fair's body had been in the water for about two weeks.

"In colder, deeper water, (bodies) usually take a month or so to come up. This was pretty quick," said marine unit Sgt. Dave Harlock.

Once dead, a body will typically sink straight down, he said. Gases build up in the body over time – a process accelerated in warmer water – and it will eventually float to the top.

Divers had searched the area Friday near where Fair was found. However, a recent rainfall had stirred the lake's floor, turning the water into a muddy, opaque soup, Harlock said.

"It was a very slow process ... Visibility at points was only two feet," he said. "What might have happened, some of the boat traffic going through could have stirred up the body. You've got a lot of big yachts going back there."

The area where Fair was discovered was only about 4 1/2 metres deep.

Police had also deployed an underwater robot to probe the bottom of the lake for the missing teen.

Friends and family of the young man, a Canadian Forces reservist who hoped to join the military full-time in June, have scoured downtown repeatedly since his disappearance. They believed he might have tried to walk to his mother's house in the Beach.

Purches said Fair's family wanted privacy.

"They were very thankful of the exposure the media brought to the case, but now they just want to be with each other," Purches said.

They had planned another search for Sunday, but called it off late last night, according to a Facebook group website dedicated to the effort to find Fair.

People posted tributes on the site as news of the police's find spread.

"My thoughts and prayers are with Shane's family. He was a funny and talented individual and he will be sadly missed," wrote one.

"Sorry to hear the news, my prayers for the family and friends," wrote another.

The body is the second to be recovered from the lake in less than a week.

On Thursday morning, a police diver found the body of Mason MacPhail, 16, in a channel off Polson Pier in the east end.

The Peterborough boy had gone missing two days earlier after he got into a fight at a concert at the nearby Sound Academy and was ejected from the bar.

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/643275

oh my ..what sad news! My heart goes out to his family,

and..two bodies were pulled from that lake? hummm??

This was from yesterday, but thought it was interesting:

Video may have captured missing York student

Updated: Sat May. 30 2009 7:05:39 PM

ctvtoronto.ca

The parents of a missing York University student have uncovered video footage that could give police a clue about what happened to their son the night he disappeared.

Shane Fair's family and friends have been taking an active role in the investigation by going to businesses in the area, to ask for surveillance footage that may have captured the missing teen on the night of May 16.

Footage retrieved from a surveillance camera near the Westin Harbour castle captures a man walking east. A short time later a car driving west makes a sudden u-turn and is last seen driving east in the same direction as the man.

The footage is poor quality and it's difficult to determine if the man in the video is indeed Fair.

The teen's friends believe he walked home from a school formal at Ontario Place after missing the chartered bus back to York. Fair's mother lives in the Beaches neighbourhood and those close to the teen say it's not unlike him to make the trek on foot. However, on May 16 he never made it home. He was last seen at the formal.

"We felt strongly that he would take a route that he's walked many times, bicycled all the time, along that route," family friend and neighbour Chris Da Silva told CTV Toronto while going over the footage.

Fair's mother Lisa Malo said she's optimistic the video shows her son.

"The timeline is right, the description of what he's wearing is right and it makes sense for him to be walking east towards the house," she said.

She has given a copy of the footage to police.

In the meantime, another search is being organized by Fair's family on Sunday.

Police called off their ground search for the teen on Friday.

With a report from CTV Toronto's Michelle Dube


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