Toronto school mourning after longtime teacher fatally stabbed in Costa Rica
TORONTO — A longtime Toronto teacher with a passion for photography and travel has been fatally stabbed in Costa Rica in what local media said was an apparent mugging gone wrong.
The Toronto District School Board said Bruce McCallum, a math teacher on sabbatical from his job at Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute, died in the Central American country.
In a letter sent to parents Wednesday, the school’s principal, Carol Richards-Sauer, said McCallum died on the weekend “after a senseless act of violence abroad.”
Media reports in Costa Rica said McCallum was stabbed in the coastal town of Puerto Viejo early Sunday morning, when he had apparently been out on the beach to take photos of the sunrise.