Ashley Noell Arzaga was a “loving mother, daughter, sister, cousin and friend” whose smile and laugh was “contagious to everyone around” her.

That is how the 24-year-old woman is described in a GoFundMe campaign set up to help her family and young daughter after she was killed at a North York spa Monday.

“With the utmost sadness we are forced to say goodbye to Ashley,” the campaign description reads. “Words cannot express the shock and grief that has come to everyone blessed enough to have crossed paths with Ashley.”

Arzaga was killed in a stabbing at Crown Spa at 3598 Dufferin St., just south of Wilson Avenue. It occurred around 12:45 p.m.

Once Toronto police officers arrived on scene, they located two people outside the massage parlour: a male lying on the street and a female, both suffering from multiple stab wounds.

Inside the building, police located a woman who was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said a weapon was found.

“Ashley is so loved and was such an outgoing, positive, kind, loving and genuinely good young woman,” the GoFundMe campaign reads.

Arzaga leaves behind a five-year-old daughter “who will sadly have to grow up missing her wonderful mommy but will be here to carry on her legacy forever.”

A 17-year-old boy is charged with first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. He cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Police are urging anyone who was in the area at the time of the stabbing, or anyone with information about this incident, to contact police immediately at 416-808-7400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477 or online at 222tips.com.

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