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The families of two Indigenous women and an Indigenous teen girl who were found dead in Metro Vancouver are calling for a coroner’s inquest into their deaths. The families of Tatyanna Harrison, 20, Chelsea Poorman, 24, and Noelle O’Soup, 13, and the group Justice for Girls chose Red Dress Day, which honours missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, to press the issue. 2:18 Vigil held for Tatyanna Harrison, Chelsea Poorman and Noelle O’Soup Harrison was found dead aboard an abandoned yacht in Richmond in August 2022. Poorman was found in a vacant mansion on Vancouver’s west side in May of the same year. O’Soup was found in a Downtown Eastside apartment, also in May 2022, after being overlooked by investigators who had visited the unit several times. 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Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. “Their families’ search for answers did not end when their deaths were deemed not criminal or not suspicious.”In 2022, the B.C. Coroners Service said Harrison died of sepsis. Harrison’s family subsequently retained a licensed forensic pathologist to conduct an independent review of her file, which disagreed with that conclusion.Her family said it also had to advocate for a rape kit to be performed on Harrison, samples which still have not been processed.“There have been no answers for three years. If you were to help somebody hide a crime that would be a crime itself, so I don’t know what happens when our justice system does it,” her mother Natasha Harrison said. 2:11 Vancouver officers investigated for neglect of duty in Chelsea Poorman case “Everything they did in Tatyana’s case is exactly what you would have needed to do to fail her.” Story continues below advertisement if ( typeof( gn_monetize ) !== 'undefined' && typeof( gn_monetize.Ads ) !== 'undefined' && gn_monetize.Ads.initialRequestMade() ) { // Ads script has been loaded, create the ad. gn_monetize.Ads.create( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-11","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":11,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-11"},"companion":false} ); } else { // if Ads script not yet loaded, queue up ad data for initialization. var gnAdSettings = gnAdSettings || {}; gnAdSettings.ads = gnAdSettings.ads || []; gnAdSettings.ads.push( {"sizes":"[300,250]","biddable":true,"id":"gpt-ad-300250-11","lazy":true,"targeting":{"pos":11,"slotid":"gpt-ad-300250-11"},"companion":false} ); } Poorman and O’Soup’s causes of death have not been determined.Poorman’s mother, Sheila Poorman, said she’s still been unable to get answers to many questions about Chelsea’s case, including how or why she made it to the abandoned home. Trending Now Canada election: Ontario riding flips to Liberals after validation process Danielle Smith promises Alberta separation referendum if signatures warrant “Chelsea was a person who wouldn’t hurt anyone,” she said.“She’d rather give whatever she had to help somebody, she would go out of her way to help a person in need, even though she didn’t have the resources herself.”O’Soup’s aunt Josie August said the young teen was “failed at every level by this country, by this government, by child welfare, by the Vancouver police by the RCMP” after running away from her group home. 1:06 Families call out Vancouver police for Indigenous investigations “We’ve found more out from the media than from Vancouver police, from the (Ministry of Children and Family Development), and this has caused great harm to the family, where we no longer can watch the news,” she said. 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