‘I’m fighting for you’: Tanya Brooks’ family searches for closure in unsolved murder
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Family and supporters gathered for an annual memorial march to draw awareness to the unsolved murder of Tanya Brooks, which took place 14 years ago on Wednesday.
Wednesday marked the 14-year anniversary of Tanya Brooks’ murder, whose case remains unsolved.
On Wednesday afternoon, family and supporters gathered for an annual memorial march from the Halifax Regional Police headquarters to the location where Brooks’ body was found to pay tribute and raise awareness towards the unanswered questions surrounding her death.
The body of Tanya Jean Brooks, a 36-year-old Indigenous woman from Millbrook First Nation and mother of five, was found in a basement window well of St. Patrick’s-Alexandra School on Maitland Street in Halifax on the afternoon of May 11, 2009.
Police say they were able to trace her movements until about 9 p.m. on May 10 and are still urging anyone who witnessed anything in the area of the school at that time to reach out.
Vanessa Brooks, Tanya’s sister, made an emotional speech in front of the crowd.
“With today’s times that we’re living in, ” she said while speaking to dozens from the steps of the police station, “we have to be mindful that whoever stole her life from us is still out there.”
“She mattered, not to just me, to her children, to her sister, to her nieces that she never got to meet, to her grandchildren that she’s never going to meet.”
Brooks said that if Tanya were still alive, she’d be expecting two granddaughters this year. She encouraged the public to keep Tanya’s spirit in the light by leaving their door lights on Wednesday night to “guide her home.”
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