Families of Tatyanna Harrison, Chelsea Poorman, Noelle OSoup call for inquest into deaths – BC [Video]

The families of two Indigenous women and an Indigenous teen girl who were found dead in Metro Vancouver are calling for a coroner’s inquest into their deaths.

The families of Tatyanna Harrison, 20, Chelsea Poorman, 24, and Noelle O’Soup, 13, and the group Justice for Girls chose Red Dress Day, which honours missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, to press the issue.

Harrison was found dead aboard an abandoned yacht in Richmond in August 2022. Poorman was found in a vacant mansion on Vancouver’s west side in May of the same year. O’Soup was found in a Downtown Eastside apartment, also in May 2022, after being overlooked by investigators who had visited the unit several times.

The families of each have long argued that their cases were mishandled and deprioritized by police.

“From the beginning of the investigations, the families were left to search for the missing girls on their own, to investigate their …