The mother of a young newlywed who was stabbed to death in a downtown pharmacy last month says her daughter hoped to start a family, but not before she embarked on a medical trip to volunteer in Africa.
“She wanted to start a family in January,” Rosalind Junor said in an exclusive interview with CP24 Saturday. “She wanted to go to Africa with a medical team to do that good job over there, to help people.”
On Dec. 11, 28-year-old Rosemarie “Kim” Junor was browsing inside a Shoppers Drug Mart while talking on her cell phone in the underground PATH beneath Bay and Wellington streets when she was stabbed multiple times.
Rosemarie had been married four months, and worked for the Medcan Clinic as an administrator at the time she was attacked.
The day she was attacked, her mother, Rosalind Junor, says she was at work when she first heard her daughter was in trouble. Her son-in-law arrived and said “go and get your stuff,” adding Rosemarie had “got into an accident.”
“I said ‘oh my God, where is she?’ I couldn’t help, and I started screaming,” Rosalind said.
On their way to the hospital, Rosalind said she heard about the stabbing, but did not yet know the victim was her child.
“At first when we heard of the incident, it was very shocking, but we thought it wasn’t very serious,” Rosemarie’s brother, Richard Junor, said on Saturday.
Rosemarie’s extended family gathered to support each other while she fought for her life in hospital.
“We just gripped each other,” Rosalind said.
Rosemarie succumbed to her wounds six days after she was stabbed. She was buried in Scarborough on Dec. 23.
“We know that she’s around us and we’re trying to cope by the grace of God,” her mother said.
Rosemarie’s brother Miguel remarked at the mundane, innocent, everyday activity her slain sister was engaged in when she was attacked.
“My sister wasn’t paying attention at the time; she was in a conversation on the phone, which we all do. We’re all out there doing our own thing, talking on the phone, shopping.”
Rosalind said her daughter was congratulating a friend on getting a new job when she was stabbed.
“She was just being so nice to her friend when this happened.”
Forty-year-old Rohinie Bisesar was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
“Justice has to be served,” Rosalind said.
Richard said there was no connection between Bisesar and his sister.
“I don’t think she knew the suspect. No member of the family recalls the suspect or anything like that. There was no connection to it, it was just so random.”
Bisesar is expected appear in court next via video link on January 20.
