Toronto van attack victims, family ready themselves for sentencing hearing
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Eleven people died and 15 others were injured after a man in a rental van went on a rampage along Toronto's busy Yonge Street on April 23, 2018.
Amaresh Tesfamariam’s family will draw on her fighting spirit this week as they summon the strength to speak about her life in front of the man who caused her death.
Tesfamariam was among 11 people who died and 15 others who were injured after a man in a rental van went on a rampage along Toronto’s busy Yonge Street on April 23, 2018.
Starting Monday, her family, along with other survivors and dozens of victims’ loved ones, will submit victim impact statements to court as the case against convicted killer Alek Minassian wraps up.
“We will fight just like she did,” Tesfamariam’s niece, Luwam Ogbaselassie, said in an interview.
Tesfamariam, 65, suffered catastrophic injuries after being run down in the attack.
She was paralyzed from the neck down, needed a ventilator to breathe and her heart stopped several times. But she fought to live for three more years, although she never left hospital after the rampage.
She died in October, becoming the eleventh person killed as a result of the attack.
Betty Forsyth, Ji Hun Kim, So He Chung, Geraldine Brady, Chul Min Kang, Anne Marie D’Amico, Munir Najjar, Dorothy Sewell, Andrea Bradden and Beutis Renuka Amarasingha also died in the attack.
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