A couple of young teens are looking for a good samaritan who stopped his busy day to help them, help a woman in need.
Grade 8 students Zahra Idriss and Musabe Bwimba were at Southgate Transit Station on their way to school, Friday morning. When they got off the train to transfer to their bus, they saw a commotion around the elevator.
"(A) lady was just lying there on the floor with her legs kind of crossed over, on her side, and I didn't see her moving at all," Idriss said adding, "I thought she was dead."
The girls knew they needed to call 911, and in the meantime they tried to get the attention of an adult to help them out.
"30 to 40 people came and then we were asking 'Someone is in the elevator passed out, could you please help us?' and then some people would just look at us and walk away," Bwimba said adding, "Or some people would crowd around the elevator and look and then they'd walk away."
"We only got the attention of one man that came and helped, and he came and helped as I was on the phone with 911," added Idriss.
The man jumped in to help, checking the woman's vitals. He stayed with the girls until paramedics arrived to help the woman.
The girls say while they think they handled the situation well, it was a rather frightening ordeal.
"I kept my cool but, when we got to school that's what I really broke down and I was in tears," said Bwimba.
They say one of the factors that helped keep them calm was the man who stopped to help them.
"He was the only man who actually took the time to come and help. He looked very busy but, he came and he stayed with us just until the paramedics came, until everything seemed fine," said Idriss.
The girls say they feel as though they were ignored and treated poorly, because of their age.
"Lots of people think teenagers are hooligans, they do crazy things, they're rude and stuff but, it's not all teenagers who are like that," said Bwimba.
The girls are reaching out to the public, in hopes of finding the man who stopped to help them, Friday morning.
"We really just wanted to say thank you very much to him," said Idriss.
"I really want to say thank you very, very much because, we really appreciated his help. Being a young group of teenagers it was pretty nerve-wracking and I think we handled the situation better with an adult there," added Bwimba.
They also hope the woman they stopped to help is doing OK.
"I hope that the paramedics were able to help her, and I hope that now she's safe," said Bwimba.
With files from Quinn Ohler.
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