A woman who knew 16-year-old Gabriel Magalhaes when he was younger was coming home from work Saturday night when she found the teen with stab wounds at a Toronto subway station and tried to save his life.
Global News briefly spoke to Mina on Friday morning outside of Keele Station, where the fatal stabbing happened on Saturday.
Police have said it was an unprovoked attack. Mina said she knew the family and used to get their kids together for play dates when they were younger. “I walked them home when they (were) so much younger.
And I found him like that that night on the ground,” she said. Read more: Man accused of fatally stabbing teen at Toronto subway station had lengthy criminal history: court documents Mina said she was coming home from work when she found Gabriel with injuries and did what she could to help him. “I helped with another retired ER nurse, I think, and I gave him CPR that night,” she said. “Then, Monday I learned that was our Gabriel.