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They were sitting across from each other - Sammy was on the same side as the streetcar driver and the girls were sitting on the seats across from him. There were maybe 15 people on the streetcar. Li-Hill: I remember seeing someone who now I know was Sammy and two young girls across from him. From how I saw him, when he got on, he was laughing, he was smiling, he seemed really OK. Garcia: I could hear the girls laughing from behind me. I propped it up there and me and my girlfriend were just chatting. We walked from the front of the streetcar to the back, where there’s that section of open space near the back exits, where there’s a big enough space to hold the bike. I brought my bike with me, which is sort of a rare thing. Me and my girlfriend got on the streetcar. I recognized his face, that’s all.Īaron Li-Hill: I got on the streetcar at about 11:50 p.m., I would say. I didn’t say hi to (Sammy) because I don’t really know him at all personally. I recognized him from mutual friends but I did not fully know him. Garcia: I think he got on at either Kensington Market or the street before that. When I was on it was pretty busy but I was able to get a seat in the middle of the car, in the individual seats. Jessica Doyle: I was at the AGO and I decided to take the streetcar home so I got on to the Dundas West streetcar at McCaul Street at about quarter to midnight Friday night. I was supposed to go to my friend’s house. Melody Garcia: I got on the streetcar at River St. Below is their account of the minutes leading up to the police shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim in the words of three witnesses. They and more than a dozen others briefly became a community, bonded at first by terror and later by bewilderment. Why didn’t Yatim stab people when he had the opportunity? What caused him to expose himself? Why did he stay on the streetcar, and even sit down, after all the passengers fled?
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Their recollections of his behaviour raise questions. Melody Garcia, 18, was going to visit her friend, and had met Yatim previously.
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Jessica Doyle, a 28-year-old veterinarian, was headed home as well. An otherwise quiet streetcar ride was thrown into chaos when he stood up, a knife in one hand and his penis in the other, and began advancing on the crowd.Īaron Li-Hill, a 27-year-old artist, was on his way back to Roncesvalles with his girlfriend. Witnesses who were on the streetcar before Sammy Yatim was shot and killed by police describe a normal night shattered by a piercing scream.