MONTREAL – Six weeks have passed and for the widow of slain taxi driver Ziad Bouzid, the pain is still very fresh.
“Every night, my children come home and they cry,” Samia Ali Messouad told Global News.
“They think of him every day.”
Ali-Messouad is a mother of three: an 18-year-old daughter, an 11-year-old boy, and a 7-year-old boy who suffers from autism.
In late November, her 45-year-old husband was shot and killed inside his vehicle by a customer in Cote-des-Neiges.
It was a senseless crime that seemed to affect everyone in the taxi industry.
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“People were touched by this event,” said Denis Laramee from Diamond Taxi, Bouzid’s employer.
“He was a father that was just working.”
Over the Christmas holidays, a city-wide fundraising effort was held to help the victim’s family.
On Wednesday morning, the widow accepted a cheque close to $80,000.
“It will help a lot. It will help assure a better life for me and my children,” Ali-Messouad said.
Bouzid’s murder was the 28th murder of 2013.
A suspect, 43-year-old Michel Duchaussoy, is facing a count of second-degree murder.
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He is expected to return to court on Jan. 23, when he is expected to enter a plea.
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