Eliane Reimer says she saw the colour of her daughter’s face and she knew.

Letisha Reimer was being wheeled out of her Abbotsford high school on a stretcher.

Seconds before, Eliane Reimer had watched paramedics rush the 13-year-old’s friend out of the building to an air ambulance and allowed herself to think that perhaps her baby’s wounds wouldn’t be that bad.

She was confused, standing inside police lines, desperate for information after rushing to the school through traffic on a summons from the principal who said her daughter had been stabbed and she needed to come right away.

And then she saw Letisha.

“I didn’t believe it