One woman clutched a bouquet of white roses. Others held visitation cards, an overflowing basket of roses and daisies printed on the front, with a picture of a smiling Ruma Amar inside.

Less than a week after Amar was killed by a stray bullet, a hushed crowd gathered in a Scarborough funeral home to remember the “caring and humble” woman.

Amar, 29, was struck by gunfire meant for alleged gang member Thanh Tien Ngo at a North York bowling alley last Saturday night. She later died in hospital. Ngo died at the scene.

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“My brothers and sisters, this is a very sad occasion,” Hindu priest Som Datt said during his sermon at the Giffen-Mack Funeral Home.

“We can do nothing about it. All we can do now is to pray to the Lord.”

Datt’s words were punctuated by quiet, stifled sobs.

Prior to the Hindu funeral service, Datt and Amar’s closest family members participated in prayers, blessings and offerings to God in front of a packed chapel.

During the service, Amar’s husband, sister and father sat in the front row.

Inside the chapel, every bench was full, and people scooted close together to make room. Standing mourners crowded the back of the chapel.

Before and after the funeral service, a long line of people — many of them young — snaked through the building, waiting to pay their respects during the visitation.

“You wouldn’t have seen more of a pure love than (Amar) and her husband,” Amar’s co-worker Praveen Sathiyaseelan told the Star. “Ever.”

Sathiyaseelan described Amar as “caring and humble.”

In the moments before what Datt called her “untimely death,” Amar played arcade games with her husband Amandeep Luthra and sister Reema. They sent pictures back to Amar’s father, Sunil, of the games and the prizes they won.

The trio was leaving the bowling alley to get dessert when the shooting began. Earlier that day, Amar and Luthra went to Ikea, and looked at baby cradles for the family they were planning to start.

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Sathiyaseelan set up a GoFundMe fundraiser to help Amar’s family with funeral expenses. In the fundraiser’s description, he noted that Amar’s loved ones were in shock.

“I know, for example, if anything like this were to happen to us, she’d be the first one to help and support (us) . . . and just make sure, that not only our families but our friends are OK and comfortable,” Sathiyaseelan said.

“Just the small things she’d do just makes a big impact on all of us.”