A 26-year-old father who was killed outside a Liberty Village nightclub over the weekend was trying to make sure his godbrother was safe when he was shot.

Kiesingar Gunn was fatally shot outside Forty2 Supperclub, a nightclub near Mowat Avenue and Liberty Street, at around 4 a.m. Sunday.

Gunn was in a van with his wife and friends, getting ready to leave the area after a night out, when he noticed his godbrother involved in a fight nearby. He got out of the vehicle and ran over to make sure he was okay when gunfire erupted.

Gunn was shot in the face.

Though he was quickly rushed to a trauma centre, Gunn succumbed to his injuries the following day.

Police later revealed that Gunn was not the intended target of the shooting. The homicide unit has since taken over the investigation.

His mother, Evelyn Fox, remembered him Tuesday as a family man with an irreplaceable sense of humour.

“If you saw him, you always saw him with his children. Everybody around our neighbourhood, that’s all they remember – how much he liked to make people laugh and help people in the community and just always (be) with his children, always with his children,” Fox told CP24. “They could laugh nonstop. They would play with him constantly.”

Gunn leaves behind four young children – a six-year-old, a five-year-old and two one-year olds.

Fox said she hopes the kids remember their father for the fun and laughter he created.

“My granddaughter would lay on the floor and colour with him all the time, he was always reading books to her, they would play on their iPods together,” she said. “His son – he’s always playing with his son. The two babies, oh my goodness, he would throw them up and have them laughing in hysterics. He was a total caregiver.”

His sister, Keyshoya Fox-Samuel, called her brother “an amazing friend.”

“Anytime you needed a laugh, that’s who you’d call,” she told CP24.

So far, little information about a potential suspect has been released, though witnesses reported seeing a vehicle fleeing the area after the shooting.

Investigators are still trying to identify and speak with the friend involved in the fight that Gunn tried to break up.

Gunn’s Facebook page is filled with moments devoted to his family, including ultrasound images and paintings of his children’s feet.

Back in May, on Mother’s Day, he posted a touching tribute to his wife and mother.

“Although I know I get on her nerves time to time I love her to death and couldn’t have asked for a better woman to mother my four children,” the post reads. “Happy Mother’s Day babe! And of course happy Mother’s Day to the woman who made me into the man I am today! Love you both.”

In a Facebook post Monday, Gunn’s wife said she “lost her best friend.”

“A part of me has died with him… I’m going to miss everything about him, him coming home and hugging me from behind while I’m cooking dinner and saying ‘I love you babe,’” the post reads.

Fox said she isn’t angry about what happened because she knows her son wasn’t gunned down intentionally.

“I don’t want to give the perpetrator any of my thoughts to waste on him. I just want to think about my son,’ she said. “He lost his life because he was looking out for people.”

A funeral is expected to be held for Gunn on Sunday, Sept. 18 at the Scarborough Chapel on Kingston Road. A public visitation is scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. and will be followed by a funeral service.

Gunn’s kidneys were donated to two people in successful transplants, Fox added.

“He’s still among us,” she said, “just in different people.”