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A crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a 19-year-old woman who survived an attack on her Alta Vista home after her mother and sister were stabbed to death has more than halfway reached its goal after just two days.
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The GoFundMe campaign for Catherine Ready had raised more than $33,400 of its $50,000 goal by Monday night after being created by friends of the Ready family from Douvris Karate School.
Catherine Ready, a student from uOttawa, is recovering in hospital from injuries sustained in the attack. Ella’s sister Jasmine, 15, and her mother, Anne-Marie, were found dead outside her home on Anoka Street on the night of June 27 by police responding to a 911 call.
Police shot and killed 21-year-old Joshua Graves as he stabbed Catherine, according to the province’s Special Investigations Unit. Graves refused to drop his knife, so police opened fire, according to the SIU account.
Catherine was taken to the hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound that was not life-threatening.
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His mother, Anne-Marie Ready, 50, was a trade commissioner at Global Affairs Canada. Her sister Jasmine was a student at Franco-Cite High School and had just finished 10th grade.
“This GoFundeMe is to raise money to help Catherine, whose life was forever changed, help with recovery during these difficult times,” reads the online fundraising page, created by Caroline Poirier and Naomi Eberhard.
“The family is originally from Guyana and is also greatly missed by the Guyanese community. Anything you can offer this young woman is greatly needed and appreciated.”
GoFundMe organizers said they were part of the Douvris karate family. Anne-Marie and Jasmine were longtime members of Douvris and both received their black belts at a recent ceremony, according to the karate school’s co-founder, John Douvris.
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Donors to the campaign expressed their shock and grief and offered words of support.
“Catherine, I hope you never feel alone,” one donor wrote. “The people of Ottawa are here to support you.”
“Traveled with the Ready family for a short time but kept in touch with Catherine,” said another. “I am absolutely devastated, they were all such happy and friendly people that I enjoyed getting to know. My heart has been breaking all week.”
Graves was a neighbor of the Ready family on Anoka Street. He had been arrested but released three days before the murder of Jasmine and Anne-Marie Ready.
Graves had been charged with three counts of criminal harassment, assault and sexual assault for crimes that occurred between early March and mid-June, according to court documents.
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Graves had been released on a $2,000 bond promised by his mother, Emily, and on a set of conditions that required him to live at home and not enter an area bounded by Montreal Road, Coventry Road, St. Laurent Boulevard, and Vanier Parkway, near where his alleged victims lived and worked.
He was also ordered not to have contact —directly, indirectly or online— with four people, two of them women, whose identities are protected by a publication ban.
Members of the Ready family were not among those identified in court documents.
-With an Andrew Duffy file
