The mother of Bailey McKinney, 20, who was gunned down in Town Centre Park in Coquitlam is urging young people to think of the consequences of their actions on other people’s lives.

At least 40 people including children and their parents were in the busy park when McKinney was shot around 6:30 p.m. on Monday during a game of pickup basketball and pronounced dead at the scene.

The shooting is one of three fatal gun incidents in public places across the Lower Mainland in the last week.

Lianne McKinney issued a desperate