The grieving family of a teenaged hit-and-run victim says it wants justice.
The Chomedey home of the Mansourians, whose 15-year-old daughter Ronia was killed after she was struck by a speeding car Friday, has seen a steady stream of visitors since the girl's death.
"All I want to say is justice. That's what I want, because it was not normal the way he was driving," said father David Mansourian.
Ronia was struck on Levesque Blvd in Laval, where she was thrown into a city bus stopped on the narrow road. The driver sped off as horrified onlookers watched.
Hours after the incident, 22-year-old Robert Belanger turned himself into the police. Belanger will appear for a bail hearing in court Tuesday. He faces charges of dangerous driving causing death, and hit and run causing death.
"He has to pay, he has to pay," sobbed Ronia's grandmother, Iskouhi Mansourian. "She was our baby, she was our baby."
Raw with emotion, the family sobbed and fumed Sunday in their home, discussing the 15-year-old's death.
"We stayed there (at the hospital) until 5 o'clock in the morning when she passed away. She was surrounded with loving people -- her family -- until her last breath," said aunt Marie Tatazian.
Angry, Iskouhi Mansourian said her granddaughter's death was no 'accident'; the word Belanger's mother used described it to local media.
"Simple accident? Oh! You kill somebody else's girl and say simple accident? I won't accept. This Mansourian family, they won't accept this," she said.
Belanger was driving on a suspended licence when he hit Ronia, and in 2007 was convicted of leading police officers on a high-speed chase.
The Mansourian family are awaiting Belanger's hearing, and keeping the memory of their daughter alive.
"She was adorable, a lovely girl, full of life -- a dreamer. She was amazing, everybody loved her," said Tatazian.
