Mother of Alberta stabbing victim says she ‘brought love and light’ to everyone

The mother of a 17-year-old woman stabbed and killed successful St. Albert, Alta., earlier this period said she wants group to retrieve her girl arsenic personification who brought emotion and ray to everyone astir her.

On Wednesday, July 17, 2 teenage girls — aged 13 and 17 — were stabbed astatine a location successful St. Albert’s Riverside neighbourhood. The 13-year-old survived, but nan 17-year-old died of her injuries 3 days later.

“She was conscionable incredible. Her bosom was really large and she loved her family, she loved her friends, she loved kids,” said nan teen’s mother.

Global News cannot place nan female aliases her girl owed to a publication prohibition connected nan teen’s identity.

The girl’s mother clutched a stuffed teddy carnivore arsenic she said astir her daughter. The stuffed animal was talented to her by nan Stollery Children’s Hospital. When nan bear’s manus is pressed, it plays a signaling of nan girl’s heartbeat.

“I support this pinch maine beautiful adjacent each nan time. I slumber pinch it astatine nighttime truthful I consciousness for illustration she’s still adjacent to me. Her youngest relative will travel and property nan fastener and he smiles,” nan mother said. “It’s bully to conscionable person pieces of her still.

“We ever told each different really overmuch we loved each different each time and I conscionable wish I could perceive it 1 much time. But I cognize she’s still pinch me.”

The teen precocious graduated precocious schoolhouse and had aspirations of going to business schoolhouse to 1 time unfastened up her ain aesthetics business, her mother said. She besides wanted to travel, and 1 time go a mother.

“She was my champion friend. I was a teen mom, truthful I had her really young, truthful we grew up together. She helped maine fig retired who I was. She helped maine raise her brothers and anytime we went done things, we went done it together.”

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The female said she has received overwhelming support from nan community, thing that helps get her done nan tougher times.

“It helps maine get done nan days. All nan words from everybody and nan prayers has conscionable been unthinkable … She’s very intelligibly had an effect connected a batch of people.”

The mom said investigators person been keeping her arsenic informed arsenic they tin connected nan investigation. She conscionable wants to get done nan tribunal process, truthful her family tin effort to statesman to heal.

“There’s thing that could beryllium done now that would bring her back. So nan nonaccomplishment is already there. I deliberation we conscionable want to get done everything and conscionable commencement healing,” she said. “I conscionable want to attraction connected nan positives and retrieve nan bully and not nan antagonistic and really things ended.

Kaj Alexander Randall, 28, is charged pinch first-degree execution and attempted execution successful nan incident.