Death of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine drives Manitoba volunteer searchers
WINNIPEG — The 2014 discovery of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine’s body — wrapped in a garbage bag and discarded in the Red River — shook Winnipeg to its core.
To this day, it prompts residents of the city’s North End neighbourhood, a low-income area with a high crime rate, to try to prevent others from meeting a similar fate.
With virtually no public funding, they comb the river, the shoreline and the streets, determined to make a difference.
Bad weather doesn’t deter them. Neither does the very real risk of danger.