Baby Sitter Recounts Moment King Went Missing 

Fifty-six-year-old babysitter Jennifer Fitzgibbon spoke to News 5 today, recounting the moment six-year-old King Shakel Wade went missing. The boy’s body was found late Tuesday evening in the canal near Fairweather Street and South Creek. Wade had been under the care of Fitzgibbon.

Fitzgibbon explained to News 5 that she had told King to sit on an old refrigerator outside her home while she cared for other children. “Well, I was getting ready to go out to take another child home. At the same time, he was looking to go through the gate. So I tell him, King, don’t go through that gate because he likes to walk about. So I tell him to come inside and sit down on the refrigerator in the front there.”

Fitzgibbon says she returned to the second floor when King’s sister came looking for him and was informed by a neighbour’s child that King had fallen into the nearby canal. Fitzgibbon says they began searching the area. “So we went looking around. We went searching the areas where he would be. We came back, and I told her to go and check near the canal one more time and see if you see his slippers. And when I hear her bawl out, I see the two slippers in the canal, and that is when they start to search.”

Wade’s lifeless body was later discovered. Fitzgibbon, who had been caring for King for about 5 months, expressed deep sorrow over the incident. “I can’t even explain it. I am telling you. It hurts.”

She mentioned that this had never happened before, and despite her warnings to the children about the canal, she is now faced with guilt and scrutiny from the public.

Full story on News 5 Live at 6 o’clock. 

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