Friends shared hugs and shock in Campbell River’s downtown on Thanksgiving Monday, after the horrific death of a young woman happened in front of their eyes a day earlier.

“I just can’t believe it happened. I mean she had a smile that would light up the room up, and Victoria was a lovely girl,” said David Michelanko, a friend of the victim.

“It was really traumatizing because she was a good friend of mine,” said Campbell River’s Shaunte Waterhouse.

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Friends identified the victim as 30-year-old Victoria Nesbitt, who lived with a severe hearing impairment and communicated by writing on cardboard as she live unhoused on these streets.

“She was really, really kind,” said Waterhouse.

According to Waterhouse, the fatal stabbing happened in the parking lot of the overd

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