Ruma Amar browsed Ikea with her husband on Saturday morning, her younger sister in tow. The young couple looked at baby cradles. They were planning to start a family.

Later that evening, they went to the arcade at a bowling alley five minutes from their condo. Amar sent her elderly father updates on WhatsApp — a video of the trio playing games, a photo of the Mentos and Jolly Ranchers they had won. He responded with smiley faces and heart emojis.

Then they left to get some dessert. Amar was following her husband and sister out the door, trailing slightly behind, when the gunfire erupted and she fell to the ground.

“All I know is the next moment I was just trying to hold her, and she was bleeding so bad,” her husband, Amandeep Luthra, recalled. In an interview with the Star on Monday, he spoke of being unable to call 911 because his hands were shaking so badly.

“She went too soon,” he said, gesturing with a snap of his fingers to show how quickly she was taken. “There was no reason for her to go.”

Police say the bullet that killed Amar, 29, was intended for Thanh Tien Ngo, the 32-year-old man who was also killed at Playtime Bowl & Entertainment in a Dufferin and Lawrence plaza after being chased down by three men Saturday night.

Ngo was pronounced dead at the scene. Amar died in hospital.

Police are still searching for the suspects.

Amar’s only sister, Reema, said she saw a masked man holding a gun, but couldn’t process anything else going on around her.

At their father’s home on Monday, Reema Amar and Luthra took turns retelling what happened Saturday night, keeping their voices composed and steady in a deliberate effort to make it through the harrowing events of that night.

But when asked if he feels anger, the grief seeped through Luthra’s even tone.

“I’m helpless,” he said. “I used to tell her, I’m against being angry. If we fight, I’d always tell her fighting wastes time. You can utilize that time loving your loved one.”

Luthra and Amar celebrated their first anniversary on March 4. She was a “pure soul,” he said, a person who was always loving and helpful to others.

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The pair met when they were working at a call centre just over two years ago. They dated for a year and then got married, still working together at a nearby CIBC branch.

Luthra emphasized his wife’s professionalism. She wanted to be a financial adviser one day, he said, and had been promoted just last week.

Reema Amar recalled her sister’s protective nature, remembering how she took care of her after the family came to Canada from India about 15 years ago — and especially after their mother’s death eight months ago from breast cancer.

“I am absolutely heartbroken,” the 23-year-old said.

“I’m just very sad that this had to happen, (that) she had to go this way. She wanted to become a mom soon.”

When the deadly shooting happened, she said, she ran into the bowling alley to get someone to call police, then returned to her sister.

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Amar’s hair was matted with blood, she recalled. Bystanders gave them handkerchiefs and a towel to press against Amar’s body.

“We thought maybe she’ll make it. She was breathing. She was breathing hard,” Luthra said.

He thought a bullet had just grazed her.

But it was far worse than he knew.

Amar fought for her life on the ambulance ride to Sunnybrook Hospital, with Luthra and her sister close behind in a police cruiser.

She was breathing when she arrived at the hospital. Twenty minutes later, in the waiting room, a doctor told Amar’s husband and sister the shattering news: She had been shot at the back of the head. Her injuries were unsurvivable.

The pair went in to see her one last time. It wasn’t a proper goodbye, Luthra said. His wife was unconscious. She couldn’t respond.

“She was taking her last breaths at that point,” Reema Amar said.

In his Scarborough home, Amar’s father, Sunil, looked at his text messages from that night. The television in his living room is flanked by a photo of the wife he buried less than a year ago, and a navy blue mug and card with the words “Best Dad” inscribed on them.

“She was my baby,” he said, his voice cracking. “She was everything for me.”

He takes the pot of white rice and seasoned cauliflower he was making Saturday night out of the fridge, food he was cooking as lunch for his daughters and son-in-law for the next day.

He abandoned the meal when he got the call from Luthra at 10:44 p.m. He hasn’t had the heart to throw it out yet.

He is living a nightmare, he said. His son-in-law feels the same way.

“I just want to wake up,” Luthra said.

Police are looking for two men armed with handguns. One is described as wearing a blue hoodie and black shoes, another was wearing a black shirt and black shoes with white soles. Police said they fled the scene westbound in a dark vehicle driven by a third man.

Luthra hopes police arrest the men soon, but said he does not bear any anger toward the alleged shooter.

“I have no aggression. I have nothing against him. I can’t get my wife back.”