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The mother who died after an RCMP shooting in Surrey, B.C., last week was an activist and prominent union member who fled Colombia due to death threats, according to her former colleagues.

A statement from SNTT, which represents workers in Colombia’s transportation and logistics industry, said Vanessa Renteria was a “youth leader” with the union before she arrived in Canada as a refugee.

She and her husband brought their daughter north “in search of a better present and future” for their family, according to a translation of the Spanish-language statement.

The union said members “condemn” the actions of police, and “demand from the government of Canada an impartial and fair investigation” into what happened.

Few details have been shared by authorities since the incident, which happened early Thursday morning at a home in Surrey’s Cloverdale neighbourhood.

In a statement, the B.C. RCMP said officers received of a report of a …

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