Syeda Sumika Zaidi thought the user running towards her on her way to Midtown Plaza last week would walk alongside her, instead, the user randomly stabbed her.
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It was a general Thursday for Zaidi and her husband, who had gone to the mall to sign their mother-in-law and sister-in-law, who were already shopping. Zaidi’s husband stayed in the car but said he would sign discouraged her a bit, so they abandoned her and she started walking from the surface of the mall to the mall.
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Zaidi had barely taken a few steps from the car when she saw crossing the street and walking towards her.
“He was running towards me and he walked towards me and suddenly he stabbed me with his left hand on the right side and just started running,” Zaidi said in a telephone interview Thursday.
“She didn’t stop. “
At first, she couldn’t realize what had just happened to her, but then Zaidi said she saw the woman with a knife in her hand. That’s when he was horrified.
She ran to her husband, crying, screaming and bloody. He called 911 and an ambulance took her to the hospital.
Zaidi stabbed in the right side above the hip and below the kidney; Now he can walk a little.
“I’m in terrible pain,” he said.
Doctors told him it would take at least two months for the wound to heal and up to a year and a half to fully heal physically.
“But the thing is to be healthy emotionally and mentally,” Zaidi said.
“I have nightmares. I’m afraid of everything. “
Zaidi can’t know what happened, she fears for members of her family circle when they faint. It asks them to be aware, safe and attentive to their surroundings.
Saskatoon police announced last Friday that they had arrested a man after two random stabs downtown on May 25.
Officers responded to a call about an injured user near East 20th Street and Second Avenue South at approximately 5:30 p. m. There, arriving police discovered the first stabbed victim, who gave a description of the suspect.
The woman, Danielle Caplette, was randomly stabbed in the hip as she returned home from the mall where she worked, she told StarPhoenix earlier this week.
Alternative reaction officers discovered the suspect on Second Avenue South and pulled a “big knife” from his belt when police learned that paramedics were taking Zaidi, at the time the victim stabbed, to the hospital. Investigators decided that either woman had been stabbed through the same person.
A 28-year-old woman charged with two counts of assault causing bodily harm, possession of a weapon with intent to commit a crime, carrying a concealed weapon and breach of probation. He is in pre-trial detention until his next scheduled appearance in Saskatoon Provincial Court on 6 June.
Zaidi, who moved to Saskatoon three and a half months ago, came to Canada from Pakistan after marrying her husband. He said fun didn’t replace what he felt for Canada.
Family members who have lived in Canada for years have told him that nothing similar has happened to them, other relatives or friends. While he doesn’t think it’s commonplace, he needs the government to act.
“It’s a very traumatic scenario for me, Array. Si those kind of criminals roam the city, no one will be safe. “
tjames@postmedia. com
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