Andrew Kinsman is then just gone. Disappears Monday June 26, 2017 near Gay Village, Toronto’s gay community. It’s the day after the Pride Parade. Friends last see him at 2pm, near his apartment. Around the same time, he texts a friend. Then: nothing more. Kinsman, 49, a trusted worker at the Toronto HIV/AIDS Legal Network trusted by clients and peers, no longer comes to client appointments. Not at meetings with employees. He doesn’t answer the phone anymore, doesn’t answer text messages.
Two days after Kinsman’s disappearance, friends of Kinsman gain access to his apartment. They find his beloved old cat. Alone. Without food. Without water. “He would never have left his 17-year-old cat without food and water,” his sister Patricia later said in an interview. “He was the caretaker of his apartment block. When he didn’t take out the trash on Wednesday, I knew about it.” His friends reported him missing to the 51st Division police station. The fact that he doesn’t answer the phone or text back is completely atypical, they explain to the officers. Highly worrying. And only the abandoned cat! And anyway: Andrew urgently needs his HIV medication!
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