Three people have been murdered in the past month in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and all of the victims were Native.

One victim was a 16-year-old girl who was from the Sachigo Lake First Nation. Two other girls -- ages 14 and 15 -- have been charged in connection with the murder, which took place sometime last week.

On September 3, Verna Patricia Sturgeon, 30, was found dead in a hotel. Two peopel have been charged with first-degree murder.

On September 14, Keegan Williams, 25, died after being stabbed. A 19-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder.

“I have three sisters and I couldn’t image something like this happening to them,” Joey Baxter, a participant in the sixth annual Full Moon Memory Walk, told Wawatay News. “There have been far too many women murdered around here.”

Get the Story:
Some Aboriginal women don’t feel safe in city (Wawatay News 9/30)
2 girls charged with murder (The Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal 9/23)