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BrIanna KInnear
Mom wants answers in daughter’s murder Brianna Kinnear was killed 10 years ago this weekend in Coq. Gary McKenna gmckenna@tricitynews.com
Carol Kinnear has many questions about her daughter’s violent death and believes there is someone out there with the answers. Sunday will be 10 years since Brianna Kinnear was shot while sitting in a truck on Oxford Street in Coquitlam and her murder remains unsolved. Every February, her mother puts a commemorative notice in the newspaper to keep her daughter’s memory alive and to encourage anyone with information to come forward and speak with investigators. “It’s so people don’t forget,” she told The Tri-City News. “Maybe there is somebody out there who remembers or feels remorse or needs to say
Laura Hughes holds several of the prayer shawls knitted by volunteers at St. Clare of Assisi Catholic church in Coquitlam. The shawls have been distributed to cancer patients in the Tri-Cities, across Canada and in 16 countries. For more on the shawls and the people who make them, see story, page 29. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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something.” Kinnear has just as many questions today as she did back in 2009 when she received a call from one of Brianna’s friends informing her that her daughter had been killed. Shortly before her death, the 22-year-old received a conditional sentence for drug trafficking and was dating well-known gangster Jesse Margison. Her body was found in her girlfriend’s vehicle, which Brianna had been driving. Investigators have been unable to confirm whether the bullets were intended for Brianna or the owner of the truck, or if it was some kind of message to her boyfriend. “I don’t know if I will ever get any answers,” Kinnear said. “I have said to [police], I am not letting you put this on the back burner. I want you to know that I still want some answers.” see
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