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“We didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.”

The sister of the 42-year-old man who was stabbed to death on a Richmond bus last month is stricken with grief.

The woman – who asked not to be named – said her family is still not ready to identify her brother, who apparently got into an argument with a 22-year-old man while riding a transit bus near No. 3 and Cambie roads on the afternoon of July 23.

During the altercation, the elder of the two men was stabbed and he died later that evening in hospital.

However, because he wasn’t carrying any identification, his family didn’t find out about his death until 4 a.m. the next day.

“It has been almost a month, and we still don’t know anything. We’ve been told very little about the man arrested or what happened on the bus. We were told that our brother was not known to (the) person who did this,” said the sister.

“All we know is that he didn’t do anything wrong that day and he ended up fighting for his life in hospital for eight hours and we knew nothing about it."

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Tuesday it is working on charge approval for the suspect.

The victim’s sister said the family laid some flowers and a hand-written card at the bus stop shortly after her brother’s death, but the memorial was removed the next day.