A community is mourning the loss of a 25-year-old woman who died after her car plunged into Lake Ontario near Bay Park in Ashbridge Sunday night.
Agnesa Sokouli, originally from Albania, moved to Canada in 2021 to join her sister and pursue dreams of a better future. In A GoFundMe Posted by her family this week, they described the loss as ‘devastating’.
“His smile that could light up a room,” his family said in the GoFundMe description.
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Sokouli studied English and worked full-time at a bakery to support her family back home. “Agnesa was helping her parents back in Albania… who are now facing the heartbreaking reality of saying goodbye to someone they loved so much,” the post continues.
On Sunday, Saikouli was a passenger in a vehicle that entered the water near Lake Shore Boulevard East. Emergency responders pulled her from the submerged car, but she later died at the hospital.
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Cristian Pascu, the organizer of the GoFundMe, said in an interview Wednesday that Sokouli and the now-charged driver had gone out to dinner on the Danforth before the incident happened.
Her family is now raising funds to bring Sokouli home to Albania for a proper burial. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to cover repatriation costs while the family mourns their sudden loss.
The driver of the vehicle, Kristjan Seraj, 23, of Oakville, has been charged with dangerous operation causing death, police are continuing their investigation and asking anyone with information to contact them.
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