Candlelight vigil this weekend for two children killed in Oak Bay
Posted December 28, 2017 12:52 pm.
Last Updated December 28, 2017 1:37 pm.
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OAK BAY (NEWS 1130) – Just a few days after police discovered the bodies of two little girls in an apartment suite in Oak Bay, a suburb of Victoria, a candlelight vigil will be held for them this weekend.
Mayor Nils Jensen says the vigil will take place on Saturday starting at 7 p.m. in nearby Willows Beach.
He adds the community has been shaken by the loss of the girls on Christmas day — identified by a family member and a friend as four-year-old Aubrey Berry and her six-year-old sister Chloe.
Family friend Trisha Lees says their mother, Sarah Cotton, was devoted to the girls and had a custody arrangement.
“Aubrey just really came into her own, just in the last six months since going back to pre-school in September. She just had a really good sense of who she was as a person and she was just making that change from being more of a toddler into being a kid, I guess, and she was lots of fun and she was always laughing and she had a huge smile.”
Lees says Cotton called police on Christmas after their father didn’t return the girls as scheduled.
Police have said an injured man, whose condition has not been disclosed, was found inside the home and is being treated in the hospital. The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit says the man remains in the facility and is not in police custody.
Investigators have said foul play is involved but they are not looking for additional suspects.
