'It's beyond tragic': Family mourns B.C.'s Kiara Agnew, 23, after suspected murder in Mexico
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The family of a B.C. woman who was found dead in Mexico on Friday is desperate to get her body home.
The family of a B.C. woman who was found dead in Mexico on Friday is desperate to get Kiara Agnew's body home.
“It’s beyond tragic,” Kiara Agnew’s aunt, Katlyn Levesque, told CTV News from her home in Atlantic Canada. She says Agnew grew up in New Brunswick before moving to Dawson Creek, B.C., as a teenager.
“Everyone’s kind of in disbelief and what we want is justice for Kiara,” Levesque said. “We want her home. We want everything to come out. We want the truth to come out. We want whoever did this to be held accountable."
Levesque said she spoke with Agnew prior to her vacation.
“It was for her birthday. She was really excited for the sailing and snorkelling and visiting the Mayan ruins,” said Leveque.
She says Agnew, who was 23 years old, arrived in Mexico Thursday with her boyfriend. Her body was discovered on Friday at a resort south of Cancun.
Police from the Secretariat of Public Security took a man into custody after “a lifeless woman was found with possible marks of violence in a hotel located in the Xcalacoco neighbourhood,” SSP Solidaridad said in a statement in Spanish.
