‘A jewel of a child’: Family remembers teen who died after attack at Edmonton high school

The household of the teenage boy who died after he was assaulted exterior an Edmonton highschool are remembering him as a delicate boy who favored to prepare dinner. 

Karanveer Sahota, referred to as Karan by his household, was attacked exterior McNally Excessive College on April 8, lower than a month after his sixteenth birthday. The Grade 10 pupil died every week later.   

His cousins, Monica Binns and Shivleen Sidhu, say they do not know why anybody would assault the quiet boy who took care of his mom and little sister. 

“This type of stuff does not occur to good folks like Karan,” Binns mentioned.

She and Sidhu each described being in a state of disbelief after they first heard the information that Sahota was within the hospital. Sidhu mentioned she anticipated solely minor accidents, including she hoped he would solely be within the hospital for just a few days.

“I generally nonetheless get up in disbelief that Karan is just not bodily with us,” she mentioned. 

‘A jewel of a kid’

Sidhu appears again fondly on her recollections of Sahota as a child. She mentioned she lived throughout the road from him and would assist her aunt by getting diapers. 

“I keep in mind day by day I’d be with him, taking part in with him. I used to be so excited,” she mentioned of being an enormous cousin. 

As Sahota grew older, his cousins say he grew to become an lively baby, all the time filled with power and affection. 

To fight boredom and specific creativity, Binns mentioned Sahota developed a ardour for cooking.  

She mentioned he not solely cooked for his household, but in addition loved cooking for his pals. 

“And it is a distinctive attribute as a result of it is simply not one thing you’d usually discover in our neighborhood,” Binns mentioned. 

On high of that, Binns mentioned Sahota was desperate to care for his mom and youthful sister. His mother would come dwelling from work and Sahota would have washed all of the dishes, she mentioned. 

“He was a great child. Like, he simply was only a jewel of a kid,” Binns mentioned.  

Whereas a lot of Sahota’s pals had vehicles, Binns mentioned he was high quality taking the bus. He by no means requested his mother for cash both, she mentioned. 

“All he needed to do was alleviate his mother’s burden,” Binns mentioned. “And he simply could not wait to develop up and to assist her out.”

Suspects recognized 

Each Sidhu and Binns frolicked with Sahota within the hospital after he was attacked. They mentioned they talked to him, held his palms and brushed his hair, identical to that they had when he was little. 

“I do know he was listening,” Binns mentioned. 

The ladies mentioned they anticipated him to get up someday and they might be capable to ask what had occurred. 

“And now we’ll by no means get the prospect to do this,” Sidhu mentioned. 

Murder detectives at the moment are investigating the case. Edmonton Police Companies say various youth suspects have been recognized.

For now, Sidhu says she hopes for justice but in addition says “nothing will ever be sufficient” to make up for the lack of her cousin. 

“Our household is totally destroyed,” Binn mentioned. “How we start to heal, I do not even know as a result of it is not only one particular person it is tons of of individuals.”