A young woman who spent many years in Ottawa was one of the victims of the recent collapse of nightclub roofs in the Dominican Republic.
The performance of the Jet Club in the Santo Domingo capital was packed with roofs.
The cause of the collapse is still under investigation, but the search for the body has been completed and 221 people have been killed.
One of the people who died was Sheila Berroa, 24, a Dominican citizen who has lived in Ottawa since moving to his family in 2018.
She ended up studying business at Algonquin College and recently managed a planetary fitness site.
“She has been involved in the community in Ottawa, especially by volunteering with her children and has contributed greatly to her friends and family,” her brother Franclin Berroa told CBC News.
He added that she was a loving aunt and her losses were tragic.
“We are all shocked [by] Her losses and these effects will be with us all for the rest of our lives. She is lovely, kind, and a hardworking person- she is involved in every community and person of love. ”
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Berroa tried to expand her work permit to be able to stay in Ottawa, but was denied earlier this year and had to return to the Dominican Republic.
“[She was] A young man lives a bright life. “Basically, she was forced to move out of Canada a month before this tragedy,” her brother said.
The pressure of her having to leave has led to the end of her four-year relationship with Saul Mendoza.
When she returned to the Dominican Republic in March, they lost contact. The day after the collapse, he said he received a call from her brother’s death.
He was still shocked when he spoke to the CBC on Thursday while on the way to the Dominicans to attend the funeral.
Mendoza said: “She has been in her life; she has a lot of hopes and dreams to share with me. She wants family, she wants to be a mother, she wants a lifetime, life is shortened a lot, it is difficult to accept; it is difficult to accept.”
He said he thanked him for his time with Berroa and would stick with their trip and memories of how she taught him to dance.
“She’s just magnetic,” Mendoza said
“I just fell in love with who she is, the way she loves others, the way she cares for and cares for others, and she knows that her way is focused on good things like good values, from a kind heart.”
Funeral service will be held on Saturday.
