Dorothy Sewell was an avid sports fan with a passion for the Leafs and Jays — and “Nan,” a great-grandmother who lost her life in the Yonge St. van rampage.

She was “the best grandma anyone could ever ask for,” grandson Elwood Delaney of Kamloops, B.C., told the Star.

Anne Marie D’Amico was just 30 when she was killed Monday. A young woman whose acts of kindness are described by friends as sometimes big and sometimes small, but above all constant.

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“She was one of the most genuine, kind and all-around loving people that you probably have ever met, or might ever meet,” said Samantha Gilhooly, who worked with D’Amico at U.S. investment firm Invesco near Yonge and Sheppard Ave. “To her core, she was just happy.”

Munir Najjar was visiting Toronto from Jordan, a trip to see his son, when he lost his life in the Yonge St. tragedy that left 10 dead and 14 injured. On Facebook, a tribute from a man describing himself as a close relative calls Najjar “a good father to your family and mine.”

“Evil took you from us,” it says.

Michael Rudan, owner of Copacabana at 230 Adelaide St. W. confirmed that chef Chul Min “Eddie” Kang died at the scene in Monday’s tragedy. Rudan said he doesn’t know why Kang, who had worked at the restaurant for six years, was at Yonge and Sheppard, but he was probably out “enjoying the day.” He called Kang, who is of Korean descent, “hardworking, loyal and salt of the earth.”

“He cooked for my kids. My kids are devastated.

“His smile would always light up the room.”

Rudan said that the staff at Copacabana is “devastated” by the loss, adding that Kang was the executive chef of a new restaurant slated to open below Copacabana in the next month or so. Kang had been hard at work on the menu in advance of the opening of Casa Fuego, which will be a Peruvian Argentinian restaurant.

“He created this cheese cake in the new menu. It had something Peruvian in it ... it was great. He made black cod too that was amazing.”

“He was an amazing chef. But he was an even more amazing person.”

Four names, but more to come. As a mourning city seeks answers, the authorities are proceeding with deliberate caution.

“It takes time to get records. It takes time to meet families,” Ontario’s chief coroner Dirk Huyer said Tuesday. “We want to take the most appropriate time, and give the best answers possible.”

The coroner’s office brought in extra staff Monday to tackle a tragedy with “significant complexities,” Huyer said — made all the more significant by the number killed and the severity of their injuries. Police, he added, have done an “admirable job” reaching out to loved ones.

That task is now international in scope.

On its official Facebook site, the South Korean government said two of its nationals were killed and another was injured in the rampage. According to the statement, the government had confirmed the safety of six Koreans out of nine who were reported missing through diplomatic and consular call centres, and that the government was seeking to locate the remaining three.

On Tuesday, Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs was quoted by Roya News as saying Munir Najjar had gone to Canada to visit one of his sons and was killed in the incident.

A spokesperson for the Jordanian embassy in Ottawa told the Star “one Jordanian citizen, he was deceased in the van attack.” She would not confirm any other details.

The Star spoke to a friend of the family in Toronto who confirmed the news.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says extra resources have been added to more rapidly identify victims of Monday’s fatal van attack in Toronto. (The Canadian Press)

“Omar Najjar’s father, Munir, was killed in yesterday’s Toronto (incident), and the family wants to be alone at this point. We seek prayers for his father and for all the injured and killed,” said the family friend.

He added the Najjar family was waiting for the coroner’s office to formally identify their father, who was visiting them from Amman. Neither family, nor friends, know any other details of the event that led to Munir Najjar’s death, the family friend said.

At Olive Square in North York, a string quartet played “Hallelujah” at a vigil for those hurt and killed. Some bowed their heads and prayed. Others wept.

“Everyone is shocked and sad, very sad,” said Azy Valipour, who lives in an apartment near where the van ended its tear.

“It’s very close to us, you always think these things happen to other people,” she said. “But Toronto is a very strong multicultural city, we’re not going to let this (break us).”

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Among those confirmed as injured are Sammantha Samson, Samantha Peart, Morgan McDougall, Mavis Justino, Catherine Riddell, Aleksandra Kozhevinikova, Amir Kiumarsi, Yunsheng Tian, Jun Seok Park, Amaresh Tesfamariam, So Ra, Beverly Smith and Robert Anderson.

Friends and family wandered in and out of critical care units at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Tuesday, pacing, talking on cellphones and comforting one another in hallways and waiting rooms as they braced for news and updates about their loved ones.

Saeid Ghavami, a researcher at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, said one of the injured, Amir Kiumarsi, was his mentor when he was a science student in Iran in 1985.

Kiumarsi, a chemistry lecturer at Ryerson University, had a “big effect on my research and progress,” Ghavami said. “He is a great guy.” Ghavami said Kiumarsi, a “well known scientist in the world of organic biochemistry,” came to Canada in 2010 and has since been a force within the local Iranian community as well as a support to Iranian students wishing to study in this country.

“Amir is more than our colleague — he is our friend and union brother who is dedicated to both his Continuing Education students and to the betterment of working conditions and learning conditions at Ryerson,” said Rob Bajko, vice-president of communication for Kiumarsi’s union, CUPE 3904.

“As Amir begins his recovery from yesterday’s tragic incident, we are keeping him and his family in our thoughts and our prayers.”

Seneca College president David Agnew sent this message to campus: “It is with great sadness that I inform the Seneca community of the death of one of our students yesterday as a result of the horrific attack on Yonge Street. She was, along with nine others, an innocent victim of this tragic act of violence.”

Two other students were hurt but didn’t need to go to hospital, the email said.

“We must grieve, and we must heal, but we must also resolve to carry on,” it added.

That, too, was the message from D’Amico’s loved ones.

“The best way to honour Anne Marie is to go out and have some additional act of kindness today, because that’s exactly what she would have done if she was on the other side of this,” said Gilhooly, who volunteered with her in the Dominican Republic. “I hope her kindness and generosity can live through everyone else.”

Tennis Canada and the Rogers Cup are making plans to honour D’Amico’s memory at this summer’s event; volunteering with the organizations was a proud family tradition.

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At a special city council meeting Tuesday, Councillor Cesar Palacio rose to speak about D’Amico, the daughter of constituents Rocco and Carmela, who live in his Davenport ward. D’Amico was one of three children and a friend of Palacio’s daughter.

The councillor said he spoke to D’Amico’s father, Rocco, on Tuesday morning.

“It was clear that part of his life is gone,” Palacio said. “As he noted, he’s living the worst nightmare ever in his life.”

On Tuesday afternoon, in the wake of his grandmother’s death, Elwood Delaney wrote a Facebook post addressing rampage suspect Alek Minassian.

“Thanks to you I had to tell my 3 children and my wife that cause of you they will no longer get to talk to Nan on there (sic) birthdays or Christmas. I love you Dorothy Sewell,” he wrote.

“You will always be loved and your love of sports will always be with me while I cheer with you. Go Toronto Go.”

With files from Jaren Kerr, Jennifer Pagliaro, Moira Welsh, Evy Kwong and Fakiha Baig.