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Randy Vogel was seen in a widespread video tearing up posters in support of an indigenous woman found dead in the neighborhood
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May 31, 2022 • 57 minutes ago • 2 minutes of reading • Join the conversation Screenshot of Vancouver broker Randy Vogel removing posters of Chelsea Purman, whose body was found in the Shawnee neighborhood earlier this year. Photo from Twitter
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A Vancouver real estate agent who was walking down Granville Street while he was being photographed and tearing down posters seeking information about an indigenous woman whose body was found in Shaughnessy’s estate has been fired.
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Last Saturday, a group of 100 people – including Chelsea Purman’s family – walked from Shawnee’s place, where her body was found, to Granville and Davey Streets, where she was last seen on September 6, 2020.
The rally was held to raise awareness of the case, which the Vancouver Police Department found unsuspecting. Purman’s body was discovered by a construction contractor on April 23, 2022.
The remains of Sheila Purman’s daughter, Chelsea, were found in front of an empty mansion in the affluent Shawnee neighborhood of Vancouver on April 22. Photo: Arlen Redekop / PNG
Angela McDougall, executive director of the Society for the Services of Killed Women, said that as the group walked down Granville Street around 36th Avenue, a man and a woman appeared on the sidewalk.
She said the man began tearing up posters the group put up with two photos of Purman and the question, “What happened to Chelsea Purman?”
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“He was very angry and was aggressively walking down the street tearing up posters,” McDougall said.
“Which is amazing, if you think about it. We’re talking about a dead woman.
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The family is looking for answers in the mysterious death of the woman behind an empty mansion in Vancouver
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Groups of the first nations are calling for an investigation into the disappearance and death of Chelsea Purman
McDougall said the video was released that day and shortly afterwards the person was identified as Randy Vogel of Macdonald Realty.
“People connected in Shones and in the real estate sector were horrified and it didn’t take long before the whole network of brokers and people who are concerned about the disappearance of indigenous women and who have the privilege of identifying them.” she said.
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“It simply came to our notice then that we were responsible for this. He obviously despised indigenous women. “
Here is Vancouver real estate agent Randy Vogel @randypamvogel, who hatefully removes and destroys posters of Indigenous Chelsea Purman who was killed in Vancouver.
Purman’s body was found in an abandoned mansion in Vancouver’s worst neighborhood. # VanRE pic.twitter.com/cIvJH73mP0
– Watch for the housing crisis (@HousingCrisisW) May 30, 2022
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On Monday, Macdonald Realty confirmed that the person in the video no longer works with the organization.
Randy Vogel and his wife and business partner Pam own a property on Granville Street, near where the posters were torn down.
Calls to Vogel’s home and office numbers were not returned.
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McDougall said the main problem remained the Vancouver Police Department’s response to the case.
Purman’s family members are also unhappy and angry at the way Vancouver police have handled Chelsea’s case: to try to find her during this time, and they do not understand why the police immediately declared her death “unsuspecting” when so many details remain unknown.
Half a dozen indigenous organizations have expressed outrage at how quickly Vancouver police decided Purman’s death was free of suspicion, saying the move was “emblematic of the absolute crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls” in all of Canada – a crisis that was addressed in both a 2012 provincial survey and a more recent national public inquiry, which together brought hundreds of recommendations for change.
– with files from Lori Culbert
dcarrigg@postmedia.com
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