‘She was lost:’ Video shows teenager taken by ambulance days before her death
WINNIPEG — Shortly before she disappeared and nine days before her body was found in Winnipeg’s Red River wrapped in a duvet cover, Tina Fontaine was captured by a security camera walking into a parkade.
Time-lapse images of the 15-year-old girl, whose death renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, were shown Tuesday at the second-degree murder trial of the man accused of killing her, 55-year-old Raymond Cormier.
Tina sat down and fell asleep between two cars behind a University of Winnipeg building named after Helen Betty Osborne — a Cree woman kidnapped and killed in The Pas, Man., in 1971 whose murder was unsolved for 16 years.
“She said that she was lost. She wasn’t sure where she was,” Audrey Kohinski, a security worker who attended to Tina, testified Tuesday.