The family of a teenager from Edmonton who was attacked outside of high school grieves and remembers him as a fun, sociable and loving member of the family.
After spending a week in hospital, 16-year-old Karanvir Sahota died of his injuries on Friday.
He was known with love as Karan, the second youngest in the family, who loved to produce music and play basketball.
“Our family has been destroyed,” cousin Monica Beans told CTV News Edmonton.
Bins said Sahota was at the bus stop in front of McNally High School on April 8 when he was attacked by several young men.
“(They) hit him with something and also stabbed his main organs,” said Shivlin Sidhu, another cousin. “He keeps saying over and over how scared he must have been. How much pain he must have felt (c) and how likely he just wanted to be at home with his mother.”
On Sunday, the Edmonton Police Department said a “number” of suspected youths had been identified and that “additional information about the investigation is pending”.
Karanvir Sahota, 16, loved to play basketball and produce his own music, family members told CTV News Edmonton (Delivered).
‘HE WAS SUCH A GOOD CHILD’
An autopsy is scheduled for April 20, which will determine the cause of death and will take place just days before the boy’s scheduled funeral.
“The last people he saw were the men, the boys who did this to him, and that’s not fair,” Beans said. “I think every 16-year-old who dies this way should die with people around him who love him, not in the middle of the field.
Sidhu said family members were shocked to hear what happened to Sahota.
“We didn’t really understand for three or four days,” Sidhu said. “We planned how to deal with the consequences of everything and how to support our little cousin.”
“We thought he was going to leave,” Bins added.
Bins said her cousin is someone who takes care of his family and tries to help in the house.
“He will cook for his mother and sister. He will cook for his friends when they come, “Beans said. “All he cared about was taking care of his sister and mother.
“He was such a good kid,” she added. “He never gave her (his mother) reason to worry.”
Caranvir’s cousins Sahota Monica Bins (left) and Shivlyn Sidhu (right) speak to CTV News Edmonton (CTV News Edmonton).
Sahota’s cousins say much of their healing will lie in the hands of the justice system, as well as in the search for answers.
“A question I’m going to ask them, those who did it, ‘Tell me why you did this,'” Beans said.
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