It was a little after 3 p.m. on Friday, December 11 when a woman walked into a Shopper’s Drug Mart located in the PATH, a concourse filled with stores and restaurants underneath Toronto’s financial district.
The woman approached another woman who was speaking on a cellphone, pulled out a knife and stabbed her once in what police said was a vital organ. Witnesses said the victim was stabbed in the heart and she was taken to hospital suffering from life threatening injuries.
The woman who did the stabbing made good her escape, leaving behind a kitchen knife. According to police the perp and the victim were not known to each other and witnesses said there was no prior interaction between the two women before the stabbing.
Police quickly released a surveillance photograph of the woman that captured the attention of the local media. Unlike most violent crimes, this one occurred in the financial district where the successful and beautiful people hang out. The wanted woman appeared to be well-dressed, wearing a business suit as she walked along the PATH.
With the public’s help the woman in the photograph was identified as Rohinie Bisesar, 40. The identity of the victim was not made public at this time.
On Tuesday afternoon, Toronto police announced Bisesar had been arrested and charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. A few minutes before she was taken into custody, the National Post received an email, purportedly from Bisesar. Although it could not be confirmed Bisesar sent the email, one of her friends confirmed it was sent from the woman’s account.
The rambling email asked about nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and satellites. She then wrote, “I’m sorry about the incidence (sic). I felt the need to be extreme to see if it would work. I would normally not to such a thing.”
On Wednesday Bisesar appeared in court, and her lawyer, Calvin Barry, said she has no record and would attempt to get bail on her next appearance on Friday. But it was not to be.
Early Thursday morning, police announced the victim died Wednesday evening and the attempted murder charge would be upgraded to second-degree murder. As one of the charges was now murder, she was not entitled to an automatic bail hearing in the court she was appearing in.
Shortly after the death of the victim was announced, she was identified as Rosemarie Junor, 28. Junor worked as a medical technician and was a newlywed. She and her new husband were planning to start a family.
Both before and after Junor’s name was released, the media was fascinated with Bisesar, turning her life into a huge sob story. A Globe and Mail article was typical of the treatment the alleged brutal murderer received in the media. This article was published after Junor had died and her name had been released.
Bisesar had fallen on hard times; she was broke, homeless and had only one set of clothes; the business suit she was wearing in the surveillance photo. But the media was obsessed with her background much more than they were interested in Junor’s background, who was minding her own business, speaking on a phone in a drugstore in the financial district.
According to the Globe, Bisesar graduated with an MBA from York University in 2007 and had worked in the financial district. She was seen at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel using a tablet. Why she used to go to a Starbucks on Yonge Street, the very same Starbucks Toronto mayor John Tory goes to. She was always immaculately dressed.
In the Toronto Star, Rosie DiManno compared Bisesar and Junor saying both were “hauntingly beautiful”. And the writer described the alleged murderer as saying Bisesar’s photograph “could have been part of a model’s portfolio.” Such compliments for an alleged brutal killer.
The media is much more interested in the accused and her life than they are in the victim. And is easy to understand why.
To the elite media, Bisesar was one of them; holding a master’s degree, being impeccably dressed and frequenting the places where the beautiful people go. If she could do what she’s alleged to have done, any one of them could end up in the same position. While Junor was happily married and employed in a respectable job, she just wasn’t in their class.
The left wing media always preaches equality and sympathy for the poor and the down trodden. But does anyone seriously think if this horrendous crime was attributed to a black woman who grew up in subsidized housing, the media would be as sympathetic as they are to Bisesar? Of course not. She is one of them.
The way the media portrays Bisesar would be funny if the circumstances of the killing weren’t so tragic. Hopefully Rosemarie Junor will not be forgotten.
It was a little after 3 p.m. on Friday, December 11 when a woman walked into a Shopper’s Drug Mart located in the PATH, a concourse filled with stores and restaurants underneath Toronto’s financial district.
The woman approached another woman who was speaking on a cellphone, pulled out a knife and stabbed her once in what police said was a vital organ. Witnesses said the victim was stabbed in the heart and she was taken to hospital suffering from life threatening injuries.
