Mother searches for answers after daughter falls from downtown Toronto high-rise
Posted August 5, 2014 6:04 pm.
This article is more than 5 years old.
A grieving mother is looking for answers a month after her daughter plummeted from the 11th storey of a downtown Toronto high-rise.
Meghan Hester, 20, fell from the balcony of an apartment unit on Stephanie Street near Queen and McCaul streets on July 4.
Since her death, questions have been raised about whether she fell or was pushed.
“The detectives at first were asking about suicide and there’s no way, there’s no way,” her mother Jennifer Ruston told CityNews. “She was just too outgoing and loved life too much for that.”
Police have deemed it a suspicious death.
“At about 2:30 in the morning, reports came in that there was a loud bang outside of the apartment and when police arrived on scene they discovered the lifeless body of a woman,” Const. Victor Kwong said.
Ruston says her daughter’s cell phone was brought to the funeral by a distraught woman who refused to leave her name, but it was missing an important piece.
“The SIM card was missing out of it,” Ruston said. “Whether that was intentional, I’m not sure.”
Hester moved to Toronto in March from the Midland area and was working as a street canvasser for a local charity at the time of her death.
Ruston says her daughter did not live in the building, but may have been visiting a co-worker.
Police are looking at security video from the lobby reportedly showing the woman walking in the building with friends.
Ruston, who recently got a tattoo of the words ‘refuse to be forgotten,’ said she needs to know how her daughter really died.
“It’s a family not knowing what happened. It’s a family with no answers, and to have closure, I need answers,” she said.
Police say there are still witnesses who have not come forward who they would like to interview.
