British Columbia’s police oversight agency is determining whether police action or inaction contributed to the death of a woman from the Saik’uz First Nation, after it said her body was found on Nov. 5 within a kilometre of where she was last seen alive almost a month earlier.
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) is not naming the woman but details of her disappearance and death match those of Chelsey Quaw (Heron), 29, who was reported missing after leaving the home in Saik’uz where she was staying early on Oct. 11.
An aunt told CBC News that Quaw had recently moved to the community, around 85 kilometres west of Prince George, B.C.,
