The toddler killed after an air conditioning unit fell from the eighth floor of a Scarborough highrise was a happy child who loved music and was scared of the vacuum cleaner, her cousin said at a candlelight vigil Saturday.

Friends, neighbours and relatives gathered to remember two-year-old Crystal Mirogho in the same spot outside a Toronto Community Housing building on Lawrence Avenue East where she was hit on Monday afternoon, as her mother pushed her in a stroller. Her two young siblings are “traumatized” after witnessing the incident, relatives said.

Paramedics rushed Crystal to the Hospital for Sick Children with life-threatening injuries. She died in hospital.

“She was the most beautiful, happy, just playful baby ever,” Khursand Nurogho, Crystal’s cousin, told the Star on Saturday. “She’d get injured one second and you’ll just kiss where she got hurt and she’ll forget about it right away.”

Nurogho said Crystal’s parents, who did not attend the vigil, are “devastated.”

“I’m trying to stay strong but it’s really really difficult. I can only imagine what the parents are feeling if I’m feeling like this as her cousin,” Nurogho said.

Crystal’s four-year-old sister keeps expecting the toddler to show up again, even bringing home a piece of paper for her sister from school, she said. Crystal’s seven-year-old brother, meanwhile, tries to comfort his parents whenever they cry.

“He quickly runs to the parents and hugs them because he understands what’s happening,” Nurogho said. Family friend Nooria Kamran added that the little boy was the one who ran around the area screaming for help after the air conditioner unit fell on Crystal.

Posters with the little girl’s pictures were set up on a table with stuffed animals and candles for the vigil. Members of the Afghan community spoke about the importance of supporting the family, originally from Afghanistan, and seeking justice to make sure no one else is hurt in a similar way. One speaker read out a statement in Farsi from a spokesperson for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

The family has hired personal injury lawyer Slavko Ristich to investigate what led to the girl’s death.

Ristich told the Star last week that the investigation will centre on Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC) policy on window air conditioning units, and how it is enforced.

“We at least don’t want another life to be lost like this,” said Kamran, who works for the same law firm hired by the Mirogho family.

She said Crystal’s father moved to Canada in 2005 and sponsored her mother a few years later.

“They started their family here,” Kamran said. “They thought Canada’s the best place to raise a family. But they didn’t know they’d be losing a special member of their family.”

She said the family had lived in the building at Lawrence Avenue East, near the Scarborough Golf Club, for two years, but requested to be transferred to a different TCHC building after Crystal’s death.

“She was laid to rest on Thursday and it was the worst thing that I have ever experienced,” Kamran said. “As a mother of two, I never wish for any mother to bury their child.”

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A funeral ceremony will be held for Crystal on Sunday at the Al Ansar Islamic Centre in North York.

Family and friends are also planning to launch a Facebook page in her memory, and already have a GoFundMe page that has raised more than $33,000.

“The family is devastated,” Kamran said, explaining that Crystal’s parents did not attend the vigil because they could not bear to return to the site where she was hurt.

“But they’re very, very thankful for the support that we have been receiving, especially since we launched the GoFundMe campaign for them,” Kamran said.

“We hope for everybody to contribute as much as they can to get at least this family’s financial stresses off.”