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After losing her son, Vanessa Cardinal is about to lose her home.

Cardinal said she awoke to a 24-hour eviction notice stuck to her door Saturday, just one day after learning her son Ashton, 17, had been killed in the parking lot outside her apartment unit.

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“We are just trying to make funeral arrangements, and while we are doing that, we got slapped with an eviction notice on our door,” she said Tuesday, tears streaming down her face as members of her family hurriedly packed their belongings.

Cardinal said she would just like time to bury her son before her family is forced out, saying the stress of packing her son’s belongings while worrying about where she and her four other children will go is almost too much to bear.

“It’s not like I was going to live here much longer; this is Ashton’s home, it just reminds me,” she said. “I always think he is going to come around the corner and come home.”

The eviction notice cites a “serious altercation involving your unit,” putting the tenants in “substantial breach” of two clauses in the Residential Tenancies Act relating to endangering persons or property in the premises.