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Kayla Sullivan “always wanted to do good,” but she “just constantly gave into the wrong people,” says the Ottawa woman who took Sullivan in as a foster child about 16 years ago.

Sullivan died early Saturday after undergoing emergency surgery, hours after she was stabbed in the back in broad daylight outside the Salvation Army on George Street in the ByWard Market.

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Peter Herauf, 37, who was arrested shortly after in Gatineau, was charged with first-degree murder and appeared in provincial court Sunday by video link.

Sullivan’s death was Ottawa’s 15th homicide of 2016.

“She was part of our family,” said Pheasant Rushton, who was Kayla’s foster mom for nearly two years.

“She was 14 when she first moved in … She was part of our family. We have many fond memories. I loved her very much.”

Samantha Warden, 18, said a man ran up on the street behind Sullivan on Friday afternoon and attacked her, then fled through a nearby parking lot as she screamed: “I got stabbed, I got stabbed.”