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RSS Feeds`Riya is an angel´ - Mississauga community gathers to mourn slain 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

17 february 2019 05:55:54

 
`Riya is an angel´ - Mississauga community gathers to mourn slain 11-year-old Riya Rajkumar
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


In the flickering light of white candles, mourners cast long shadows Saturday on the snow-covered playground of Meadowvale Village Public School. They had gathered on this cold evening to pay respects to Riya Rajkumar, the 11-year-old Mississauga girl who was found dead Thursday at her father’s residence in Brampton. Police had issued a late-night Amber Alert when he failed to return Riya to her mother after the two celebrated the girl’s birthday earlier in the day.“It’s so sad and tragic. She just turned 11. It was her birthday,” said Debra Oliver, who was among more than 300 people attending the candlelight vigil at Riya’s Mississauga school, where she was a Grade 5 student. “She was so young. She had not even lived her life,” said Oliver, who, like many attendees on Saturday, had never met Riya. The girl’s father, Roopesh Rajkumar, 41, has been charged with first-degree murder. Police said he was taken to hospital and later a trauma centre, suffering from an undisclosed medical issue. His case will be “looked at” by a judge on Tuesday, regardless of his condition.Vigil organizer Amrita Naipaul said she was aware of a missing child from the Amber Alert Thursday evening, but didn’t realize until later that the victim was her former school friend’s daughter.“I have my two nieces living with me and I can’t imagine having them taken away from my family,” said Naipaul, who went to cosmetology school with Riya’s mother and got her permission to organize the two-hour vigil that started at 6 p.m.Read more: Peel Police charge father of dead girl, 11, with first-degree murderLate-night Amber Alert about missing girl, found dead, prompts complaints to 911: Peel police“It is going to be a very long journey for Riya’s mother. We just want to give her all the support she needs so she knows she is not alone.”Among the mourners who crowded the playground and ...


 
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