Text messages show how three youths plotted and carried out the murder of 16-year-old Tyrone Bracken in the stairwell of a Toronto Community Housing apartment building, prosecutors are alleging.

The Crown says the texts, synchronized with surveillance footage and telephone call logs, provide a running transcript of what happened shortly before and after Bracken was shot to death on Nov. 17, 2010 around 3:30 p.m., at 135 Neptune Dr., near Bathurst St. and Wilson Ave.

The following is a small selection of some of the hundreds of texts in evidence at the murder trial in front of Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer, as well as the interpretation — in italics — of what prosecutors and Toronto police gang expert Sgt. Gavin Jansz say the slang means.

They were taken from the cellphones of three of the four defendants, all under 18 at the time Bracken was killed, so they can’t be identified.

The d is outhere

(One of Bracken’s nicknames was Detroit)

Where inside

Yea

My yutes at his base

(My youth’s (Bracken) at his home)

Yo make me know wagwan b4 I go there with my girlfriend

(Tell me what is going on before I go there with my gun)

He’s going dt right now

(Bracken is going downtown right now)

Naw keep him there

light I will

(All right)

He’s in the staircase beside hes door on the block

Yo have him in a stair case

Where u at

I’m here

Wen u coming

were r u

In 35

(Bracken’s mother lived at 135 Neptune Drive. He was killed in a ground-level stairwell)

yo im at side door

hurry up by theplay ground

Am on my way

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(The gap between these texts is when, the Crown says, Bracken was shot to death)

Yur dum

How

I didn’t bring him the d did

(One of the accused explains he didn’t bring the fourth defendant to the stairwell, Bracken did)

delete all messages

Yea

Did boy come yet

(Did the police come yet?)

Ya yo the feds is at his door

(The police are at someone’s door)

Survey found strong fear of ‘snitching’

“Snitches get stitches,” Tabitha Bracken testified at the trial of four young men accused of killing her 16-year-old son, Tyrone.

After his murder in November 2010, police set out to establish to what degree the “no snitching” phenomenon exists in the Toronto Community Housing complex where he was killed. Uniformed officers conducted a simple, informal survey in which they asked residents of 135, 145 and 155 Neptune Dr., older than 16 a single question: “If you were a witness to a homicide, would you testify as a police witness at a homicide trial?”

14% said yes

72 % said no

14% said they didn’t know

The comments of those who said yes included: “I have small children and I would do it to protect my community — I have to live here,” and “I know I should do that, and my religion says that I have to.”

Comments of the people who declined included: “I’m sorry, I’m scared,” “I would be fearful,” and “You know, around here there is a no-snitching rule.”

Those who said “I don’t know” commented: “Only confidentially — Crime Stoppers” and “It depends on the conditions.”