By Lisa Iesse Writer HAMILTON – It\u2019s a hate crime. That\u2019s how Hamilton City Police are investigating the recent defacement that hit a sign seeking information on the 29 year-old murder of an Indigenous woman. The sign had just gone up this year on Valentine\u2019s Day. Helen Gillings was from the Kenora region believed, to have been of Ojibwa decent, she was adopted at four-years-old she was raised in Alberta until she became a teen and by 16 was on her own in Toronto and eventually Hamilton and was a mother of two young children. She was just 19 years old when she was murdered in Hamilton in 1995. Her body was found under a couch in an alley on King Street in Hamilton on Feb. 17, 1995. She had… <\/p>\n
By Lisa Iesse Writer HAMILTON – It\u2019s a hate crime. That\u2019s how Hamilton City Police are investigating the recent defacement that hit a sign seeking information on the 29 year-old murder of an Indigenous woman. The sign had just gone up this year on Valentine\u2019s Day. Helen Gillings was from the Kenora region believed, to have been of Ojibwa decent, she was adopted at four-years-old she was raised in Alberta until she became a teen and by 16 was on her own in Toronto and eventually Hamilton and was a mother of two young children. She was just 19 years old when she was murdered in Hamilton in 1995. Her body was found under a couch in an alley on King Street in Hamilton on Feb. 17, 1995. She had... <\/p>\n