Family of woman killed in Saskatoon seeking accountability after charges stayed
CBC
Warning: This story contains graphic details.
Shukri Hashi remembers being speechless when a Crown attorney told her over the phone last week that the manslaughter charge against the woman accused of killing her younger sister was being stayed.
"I feel like I just really blacked out," said Hashi. "We were just stunned and didn't have any words to say."
Hodan Hashi, 23, died after a bloody fight with another woman at a Saskatoon nightclub in November. Video of the incident was widely shared online.
Saskatoon's Paige Theriault-Fisher was initially charged with second-degree murder, but the charge was reduced to manslaughter the same day.
That charge was stayed last week, with Crown prosecutors saying the fight was mutual, no weapons were used and the fatal injury was an accident. The defence team maintains Theriault-Fisher acted in self-defence.
"[It] was way beyond anything that we thought would happen," said Hashi.
Now, Hashi said shock has turned to anger.
"This is a death and it's a family member that we lost in a very brutal and violent and public way," she said.
"We think it deserves all the resources of the prosecution's office, whether they believe it's going to lead to a conviction or not."
Hodan Hashi graduated from Sir Robert Borden High School before moving to Saskatoon in the summer of 2021 to pursue studies in early childhood education at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, according to her sister.
The family had lived in Saskatoon in 2015 and Hashi wanted to return to a familiar place where she had many friends, her sister said.
Videos widely circulated on social media show Hashi's last moments fighting Theriault-Fisher on the dance floor of Lit Nightclub Nov. 5, 2022.
Theriault-Fisher is seen repeatedly striking Hashi in the face and neck as her head bashes against the floor. A pool of blood can be seen beneath Hashi in the video.
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