Calls for transparency after Colombian mom fatally shot by B.C. police [Video]

One week after Colombian refugee and mother Vanessa Renteria was fatally shot by police in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, advocates are demanding more answers about her death – for the sake of the woman’s grieving family.

Several groups gathered in Surrey Thursday to demand transparency from the RCMP, with some speaking on behalf of Renteria’s relatives, who are seeking visas to visit Canada in a desperate effort to learn more about her death.

“There is no justification for this,” said Nadia Revelo Bolivar, of the Solidarity Committee for Renteria. “The community is going to fight for justice.”

So far, few details on the circumstances surrounding Renteria’s shooting have been shared by law enforcement.

In a news release, the B.C. RCMP said officers from the Surrey detachment responded to a report of a disturbance at a home in the Cloverdale neighbourhood on Sept. 19, and were told a woman had barricaded herself …