Mortal Remains of Kartik Vasudev Arrives in India, Mother Mourns Beside Casket

Indian Student death in Canada during a shootout at a subway station in Toronto shocked everyone. The 21-year-old deceased student was headed to a restaurant in the Downtown area for work when he was shot dead by an anonymous man at a subway station entrance.

Kartik Vasudev, a 21-year-old management student in Canada, hailed from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. On April 7, 2022, he was reportedly going to the restaurant where he works in the Downtown Area when, at the Sherbourne TTC station, St. James Town, he was shot multiple times by an anonymous man. An injured Kartik was treated by off-duty paramedics and taken to a hospital where he could not sustain the injuries and died.

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Family Grieves Indian Student Death In Canada

The suspect for the murder was a tall man who was seen moving with a handgun in the area after the incident. A case against the man was registered and on April 13, the police arrested 39-year-old Richard Edwin from Toronto, identifying him as the anonymous man who killed the student.

On April 16, the dead body of Kartik Vasudev reached his hometown Ghaziabad and his mother could not control her tears looking at her child. She was spotted grieving beside the mortal remains of her son, sobbing bitterly. Kartik's family has earlier raised questions about the investigation by the police and reportedly said, "It seems unlikely that these were just random crimes. The man murdered two people in a span of two days. There has to be a motive or a target and it does not come across as random."

Kartik moved to Canada in January to pursue his higher studies and was working at a restaurant there. The Consulate General of India also expressed grief on the demise of the student and released a statement saying, "We are shocked & distressed at the unfortunate killing of Indian student Kartik Vasudev in a shooting incident in Toronto yesterday". It is reported that the suspect that killed Kartik had also killed another person, 35-year-old Elijah Eleazar Mahepath, two days after Kartik's shooting. The police dubbed both the cases as random homicide cases.