Family remembers teen as a loved son as police believe Samual Bird is victim of a homicide

By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News Samuel Bird’s mother says she wants people to remember her son for the way he lived, not how he is believed to have died. “I want people to remember Samuel not as a headline, not as a case file, but as a loved son, a brother, a cousin and a friend. His laughter, his spirit and his love are what define him, not the circumstances of his disappearance,” Alanna Bird said at an Oct. 1 news conference with the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). Four months to the day the 14-year-old Indigenous Edmontonian went missing and a day after National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, police announced that Bird is suspected to have been a homicide victim. Bird’s Cree name is…

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