Visiting Canadian Student Shot To Death In Florida

Blood-soaked roses marked the spot Saturday where a Canadian student on spring break was fatally shot at a public telephone while talking to his mother.

Mark A. Fyke, 19, became the second foreign tourist to die in Florida in less than a month when he was shot in the back of the head Friday night.

Witnesses told police the teenager walked up to Fyke, asked for his wallet and shot him once in the back of the head.

A Dutch woman was killed in an attempted robbery Feb. 23 while her husband asked for directions at a Miami gas station.

Fyke’s classmates, about 40 students from Nicholson Catholic high school, boarded their bus for home Saturday morning.

“That was a sad bunch of kids,” said Dennis Gummo, front desk manager at the Thunderbird Motel, where they stayed.

Other students were checking in.

“It kind of puts a damper on spring break to have someone blown away on your first day,” said Jason King, 19, of Bayonne, N.J.