An emotional candlelight vigil for Dr. Elana Fric-Shamji has been held at the University of Windsor.
Originally from Tecumseh, she lived and worked in Toronto where police have charged her husband with first-degree murder after Fric-Shamji's body was found stuffed into a suitcase last month in Vaughn, just north of Toronto.
At last night's vigil, her father, Josip Fric, said the past couple of weeks have been difficult. "Very hard, painful, I don't recommend it to my worst enemy, what me and my family went through.' Fric added the ordeal has been especially hard on his daughter's three children, his grandchildren. "My little fella Marius, three-years-old, a taxi passes and he say mommy in the car went to go buy toys for Christmas but we teach him, mommy isn't there'.
Fric-Shamji's funeral is tomorrow at St. Francis if Asissi Church on Turner Road.
Her husband, Mohammed Shamji, a Toronto neurosurgeon, has been charged with first degree murder.