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Anguished mother speaks out after daughter shot dead in the crossfire of a Toronto ‘gun battle’
The woman Ann Marie Josephs spent years protecting and fighting for was gone in a flash of violence that her mother understands no better today, some three months later
Fearing she would not survive cancer, Ann Marie Josephs made a decision. She would leave half of her worldly possessions to her daughter, the one of her five children who was struggling in life.
“This was for her,” Josephs told a Star reporter, sitting in the living room of the Brampton home where she raised her. It was only a year ago, after being diagnosed with metastatic oral cancer, that Josephs wrote a will to ensure her kids inherited the property.
“Now she’s not here.”
Josephs, a financial planner, never imagined she’d outlive any of her children, especially after a doctor’s warning last year that she would only have a few months to live if she didn’t have major surgery to remove the cancer.
But on a Wednesday morning in July, her world came crashing down.
Her youngest, Sarah AnnMarie Prehay, 23, died after she was caught in the crossfire of what police have described as a gun battle at a plaza in Scarborough.
