Alleged Stabber Rohinie Bisesar Arrested And Charged With Murder!
Rosemarie (Kim) Junor, described as ‘a vibrant, happy and glowing person’,has been identified as Shoppers Drug Mart PATH stabbing victim, who died in hospital on Thursday after she was attacked last Friday. At around 3 p.m. Tuesday, Rohinie Bisesar was taken into custody by police and charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. The charges have now been upgraded to second degree murder following Junor’s death.
TORONTO –Toronto police have released the name of the South Asian woman stabbed without provocation last week in an underground drugstore in the downtown financial district.
Rosemarie (Kim) Junor, 28, was stabbed inside a Shoppers Drug Mart store in the underground PATH system that runs beneath parts of Toronto’s downtown core. She died from her injuries on Thursday.
A 40-year-old South Asian woman from Toronto wanted for attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Junor in a “vital organ” at a drugstore in the city’s financial district was arrested Tuesday.
Rohinie Bisesar was initially charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon after the attack below Bay and Wellington streets. The attempted murder charge has now been upgraded to a second-degree murder charge, reported CBC News.
The stabbing happened just after 3 p.m. on Friday. Junor was rushed to hospital and later put on life-support. She died Wednesday evening, police said.
Junor, described as ‘a vibrant, happy and glowing person’, got married in the summer, had a successful career in health care and would effortlessly pick up the steps for the intricate Bollywood dances she loved.
At Bisesar’s brief court appearance Wednesday morning, her lawyer, Calvin Barry, told reporters “she seems really sad,” but he wouldn’t comment on other aspects of Bisesar’s life.
She will remain in custody, likely at a jail in the Milton, Ont., area, Barry said.
Bisesar is due back in court Friday, but Barry suggested it may be early January before she gets a bail hearing.
Earlier Tuesday, locals told the Toronto Star, Bisesar was known to visit a Starbucks roughly a block from the stabbing.
“I’ve seen her for a couple of months,” said Heather Thomas, the assistant manager at a Yonge and King Street Starbucks. “She was very antisocial.”
She said, nearly every day, Bisesar would “come in and always get an ice water or a tall pike coffee and would sit at a laptop turned away from the wall.”
“We knew that something was off because she would stand at the cash and give us a blank stare,” said Thomas.
On occasion, staff would prompt Bisesar to respond and it would take her some time to respond. The same would happen at a Starbucks further up Yonge Street that Thomas said Bisesar also frequented.
At both locations, Thomas said Bisesar never offered details about her personal life or talked with other patrons so they were stunned when police visited the café to ask about the suspect.
That was after they were called to the Shoppers Drug Mart at 66 Wellington St. W. at 2:55 p.m. Friday after a female suspect, armed with a knife, approached and stabbed a shopper, seemingly without provocation.
Police said the victim was stabbed in a “vital organ” and left in “grave” condition. They considered Bisesar violent and dangerous.
Though authorities revealed little about Bisesar, in 2004, she received a Bachelor of Administrative Studies degree and in 2007, a Masters of Business Administration degree, a York University spokesperson confirmed to the Star.
LinkedIn also indicated she was the chair of the Mentor Lunches sub-committee for Women in Capital Markets.
But a spokeswoman for the Canadian women’s group told the Star Monday that she was “unable to validate” Bisesar’s position, saying she had not heard of her before.
Bisesar is a financial advisor and investor according to her LinkedIn profile. She received her MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in 2007.
According to her profile, she also received a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in general management from York, a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology from the University of Toronto, a certificate in mining and received a certification from the Canadian Securities Institute.
She did consulting work between September 2012 and November 2014, and has been “opportunity seeking” since then.
In four recommendations posted to her LinkedIn page between 2010 and 2012, Bisesar is described as intelligent, determined, dedicated, enthusiastic and professional.
Georges Monette, an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at York University, worked with Bisesar when she was a member of the department’s technical and computing support team from May 1999 to July 2001.
Monette did not respond to the Star’s requests for comment, but his post on LinkedIn said,
“She was superb both for the outstanding quality of her work and for her warmth and interpersonal skills. She had the intelligence, creativity and ability to work collaboratively that allowed her to find excellent solutions to just about any problem researchers and faculty members would present her with,” Monette wrote.
She also received a recommendation from the Chief of Staff in the dean’s office at the Schulich School of Business. Sean Siddik “advised” Bisesar during her time at York University, according to a post he published Sept. 19, 2011.
“I had the opportunity to work closely with Rohinie over the years, during her involvement with the Women In Leadership organization at the Schulich School of Business as well as Women in Capital Markets,” he wrote. “Rohinie was always organized, professional, hard working, and courteous. She demonstrated sound judgment, as well as very strong leadership and entrepreneurial skills. Rohinie was a pleasure to work with, and I wish her all the best on her future endeavours!”
