Family members of a mother of four killed in Winnipeg’s The Maples neighbourhood Saturday night are reeling in the wake of her death.
“Just let it be known that my sister was too loving for her own good. She loved to death,” said Lyle Perry of his sister, Tessa Perry, in a statement to CBC News on Monday.
Tessa, 31, was assaulted and taken to hospital in critical condition around 10 p.m. Saturday, police said. Officers were called to the area of Marlow Court near Inkster Boulevard where they said they found Tessa unconscious with upper-body injuries.
Justin Alfred Robinson, 29, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to Perry’s death along with a count of failure to comply with a probation order.
The Winnipeg Police Service investigation into the alleged homicide in the Maples neighbourhood continues. (Walther Bernal/CBC)
Another relative, Aimie Genaille, said Tessa loved her kids “more than anything in this world.”
“She was the life in the crowd. She always had a big beautiful smile where the corners of her lips would just about touch her ears. It was that huge,” said Genaille in a statement to CBC.
“We are in such shock, this feels like a bad dream.”
Lyle Perry asked for privacy as the family grieves.
Tessa is Winnipeg’s 23rd homicide victim of 2022, and the third Indigenous woman to be killed in three weeks.
On May 16, Rebecca Contois, 24, was found dead in North Kildonan. On May 19, Doris Trout, 25, was found deceased in an apartment lobby on Kennedy Avenue in downtown Winnipeg.
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