Family of Starbucks Stabbing Victim Asks People to Remove Graphic Video of His Murder From Social Media

A woman pauses at a makeshift memorial for Paul Stanley Schmidt, 37, who died after being stabbed on Sunday outside a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver, on March 29, 2023. Vancouver police say Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 32, has been charged with second-degree murder and investigators do not believe the suspect and victim knew each other. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

The stepsister of the man fatally stabbed outside a downtown Vancouver Starbucks is expressing anger that witnesses filmed and watched as her brother was murdered—instead of calling the police—and then posted the graphic video on social media.

“I am angry, heartbroken, grieving and confused but looking for answers,” said the victim’s sister, Jessica, in a statement on Facebook on March 28.