A Tuesday vigil is planned for 14-year-old Noelle ‘Ellie’ O’Soup, whose body was recently found in an apartment building in downtown Eastside.
O’Soup, an Indigenous girl from Saskatchewan’s First Key Nation, had been missing for more than a year.
A small monument grows outside the building on Hastings Street and Heatley Avenue, where both O’Soup and another person who died on May 1 were discovered.
Vancouver police say they are investigating all avenues of his death.
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Noelle O’Soup had been missing for more than a year. Coquitlam RCMP
Indigenous leaders have said they believe O’Soup’s search was not urgent.
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“Overall, the RCMP: I’m very disappointed and upset with them and their lack of action, their lack of interest, and they generally don’t care,” Chief Clinton Key of Global News told Key First Nation.
A vigil will be held Tuesday at 6 p.m. at 405 Heatley Ave. outside the building where O’Soup’s body was found.
“There’s a big problem at DTES and across the country,” vigil co-organizer Lorelei Williams said. “Indigenous women and girls are being attacked every day and it’s such a big problem. We need a state of emergency.”
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