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TORONTO — Inside a concert hall on the east Toronto street where Reese Fallon was shot to death with a handgun last summer, Noor Samiei stood before a microphone on Friday and took a moment to recall the qualities she appreciated most in her best friend.

Fallon, 18, was bright and funny and never allowed the people she cared about to suffer through a dull moment, Samiei said. More than anything she wanted to transmit love into the world.

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She planned to study nursing at university. She was eating ice cream in the moments before she died.

“What happened to us was a tragedy,” said Samiei, who was with Fallon and friends of theirs who were struck and wounded last July 22 in the mass shooting on Danforth Avenue.

Exactly seven months after Faisal Hussain killed Fallon and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and injured 13 other bystanders in the course of his rampage down the busy Toronto street on a summer Sunday evening, Samiei and family members of some of the victims issued a public plea for handguns and assault rifles to be banned across the country.