'Her death was a wakeup call': 10th anniversary of Tina Fontaine’s death to be marked
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This weekend marks the 10th anniversary since the death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine.
This weekend marks the 10th anniversary since the death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine.
Fontaine’s younger brother Elroy was only eight at the time.
“She was someone with a very good heart and a good soul,” Elroy Fontaine told CTV News Thursday. “She was just taken too soon.”
It’s believed Fontaine died on or around Aug. 10, 2014, and a week later, her body – wrapped in a duvet cover and weighed down by rocks – was recovered from the Red River at the Alexander Docks.
“I remember just not knowing how to process it and just being very, very silent,” Elroy said. "It took a while for me for it to click. And it was very hard when I finally realized she wasn’t going to come back.”
Raymond Cormier was acquitted of second-degree murder in 2018.
Fontaine’s death sparked outrage across the country and brought the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) to the forefront.
