Sister of Halifax homicide victim Terrance Izzard pleads for killer to come forward

The sister of a Halifax homicide victim who may have been unintentionally targetedis pleading for her brother's killer to come forward.

Selina Carter wants to know who killed her older brother Terrance (Terry) Izzard,and why.

"I think if they know, somebody should come out and say that they know because you could be saving lots of family members all this heartbreak," Carter said Wednesday.

"Innocent bystanders are getting shot for nothing."

Izzard, 58, was gunned down Nov. 14 at the door of his Uniacke Square home in central Halifax. He died later in hospital.

Unintended target

Halifax police are exploring the possibility Izzard may not have been the gunman's intended target. His killing remains unsolved.

"Terry was a kind, loving, warm-hearted person,"Carter told CBC News in a phone interview."He'd never hurt anybody and for somebody to do that to my brother, it's very wrong."

'A dent in my heart'

Carter, who moved to Montreal from Halifax six years ago,said she hasn't been the same since that fateful night when a relative called and told her that Izzard had been shot.

She's still overcome with grief,in partbecause she was unable to make it back to Halifax for her brother's funeral.

"It's been pretty hard," she said. "It's put a dent in my heart to know that I don't have my brother. I hope that they find the killer, I swear, because I never want to meet them."

Last conversation

Izzard was a long-time maintenance and janitorial worker. Carter last spoke to him on the phone a few weeks before he was killed.

"He told me that he loved me," she said. "And I said that I loved him, too, and I missed him."

Carter said she's lost and thinks about her brother every day.

"I just want to know why and who did this to my brother," she said. "I just hope one day that they find this person.

"I feel for this person, I really do. They're very sick."

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