Grandmother, mother, daughter: Families remember 3 First Nations women police say were killed by same man
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Three First Nations women who were living in Winnipeg have been identified as victims of an alleged serial killer, police say, but their loved ones say they were much more than victims.
Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and Rebecca Contois were all killed in May, police believe.
Jeremy Skibicki, 35, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with their deaths, though the bodies of Harris and Myran haven't yet been found.
Police allege a fourth woman, who hasn't yet been identified, was also killed by Skibicki, likely around March 15. She is believed to have been an Indigenous woman in her mid-20s, police have said.
The women who have been identified were mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.
Here's how they're being remembered by those who loved them.
Myran, 26, was reported missing in March of this year, and was last seen in Winnipeg's North End.
After she was reported missing, her family members canvassed the city looking for her, afraid of what they might find.
Myran was living on the streets before she went missing. Her grandmother Donna Bartlett said in an October interview that she worried Myran might be exploited, or even killed.
Now, Bartlett is left to grieve her granddaughter, who she says was a happy, smiley and trusting person.
Cambria Harris says her mother, Morgan, was a mother of five and a grandmother who was "happy-go-lucky" and "silly."
"People loved to be around her," Cambria said at a vigil for her mother on Thursday.
Family and a search team looked for Morgan for months after she went missing at the beginning of May, hopeful they would find her, said Cambria.