A week after a young man’s sudden suicide at an LRT Station, his family told CTV News they were finding closure – after a backpack stolen moments after the death was returned.

On Wednesday, February 5, Jonathan Langille, 19, took his own life by jumping in front of an LRT train at the Coliseum LRT Station.

His death came as a shock to his family, on Tuesday; his mother Jan Thorpe and stepfather Shawn Egan talked to CTV News and said Langille’s backpack was stolen.

The couple said a young woman had been recorded in surveillance footage of the station platform watching the entire incident unfold, and then taking the backpack Langille had taken off and left on the platform in his final moments.

The family put out a call for the backpack to be returned early this week – they believed it contained Langille’s journal, and some clues as to why he decided to take his own life.

A call the couple said was answered Tuesday night, Egan and Thorpe received a call from an individual who said they had the backpack, and wanted to return it.

“We rushed out and we waited for a few minutes where they told us, they called us back and told us to meet them down a couple more blocks where they were at,” Egan said. “We stayed on the phone with them the whole time.”

The couple met a woman and a man, who returned the backpack – the family gave the pair a reward for giving the bag back. The people who returned the bag reportedly knew the woman who took it.

Thorpe said they were told the woman who took the bag had been high at the time of the theft, and didn’t know Langille had died, but she later heard about the family’s plea on the news, and wanted to return the bag.

“We did hear that she felt very remorseful and was very sorry,” Thorpe said. “We just hope that everyone does not go after her because of a mistake.”

Thorpe said the journal was inside the backpack, and the family had found closure – Thorpe said the family is forgiving the woman; they aren’t seeking charges against her.

“We have the answers that we were looking for,” Egan said.

“Now we can move forward from there, at least we have the missing piece of the puzzle we needed.”

With files from Veronica Jubinville