‘He was one of the nicest guys that I have ever met,’ said a friend of Damir Kussain, one of the victims killed while walking on a sidewalk
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A few minutes before he was killed in a car crash on Sunday evening, Damir Kussain, an international student at Toronto’s Centennial College, texted his friend Carlos Hinojosa on WhatsApp to ask whether he was free to play poker.
Mr. Kussain, 19, from Kazakhstan, and Wei Jie Zhu-Li, 19, and his brother Jun Jie Zhu-Li, 21, both from China, were walking on the sidewalk at around 6:35 p.m. ET when a car ran through the intersection of Progress Avenue at Markham Road. It then mounted the sidewalk, striking a guardrail before hitting the three students, causing the death of the two 19-year-olds and leaving the third student with non-life-threatening injuries.
The school said Wei Jie’s older brother, 21-year-old Jun Jie, was also injured in the crash and is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.He never thought such thing could happen to him in Canada. “I came from Peru in order to get a better life like [Damir],” he said.
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