'She was always laughing': Friend remembers Canadian woman killed in Mexico robbery
The friend of a Canadian killed in Mexico says she spoke to Gabriele Schart on the phone just moments before the woman was shot in a gas station robbery.
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''The friend of a Canadian killed in Mexico says she spoke to Gabriele Schart on the phone just moments before the woman was shot in a gas station robbery.
Raquel Shulman says Schart was making the long journey by road back to Canada with a friend when they made a stop outside of Queretaro City, Mexico to fuel up.
She says that's when the pair were robbed at gunpoint - Mexican police said Schart received a fatal shot in the face.''
“I spoke to her while she was at the gas station she was killed at,” Shulman said in a phone interview from the Greater Toronto Area.
“She was telling me it was her last tank of gas until the (U.S.) border.”
Schart was travelling from Zipolite, Mexico, with a friend and pets, and had expressed concerns over bandits targeting motorists on Mexican highways, one of her sons wrote in an online post.
Mexican police said the pair were robbed at a gas station, with the thieves firing three shots. One hit Schart in the face, killing her, while the friend was shot in the arm, they said''