Christine Angelis has had to rebuild a memorial for her daughter, Keisha Garie, for the second time in less than a month.

Keisha and her fiance, Umair Kasim, were found dead in front of Burnaby’s Alpha Secondary four years ago. Their murders are still unsolved.

The RCMP is investigating after the memorial was ransacked last Tuesday, this time in broad daylight, with teddy bears, flowers, signs, messages, and a photo of Keisha whisked away.

“I just don’t understand how somebody could have zero compassion for a human life that’s been taken,” Angelis said.

“I’m struggling with this person that’s doing this. It’s a violation of her memory, and it’s super, super sad.”

She says she won’t be discouraged by whoever keeps destroying it.

“You’re not going to take this away from her friends and her family,” she said.

“Every time that you come out here to destroy it, I’m going to come back and redo it.”

Ahead of the last time it was destroyed, a note had been attached to Keisha’s photo demanding Angelis take it down. But she says the majority of the community has only ever been supportive of her work.

“Every time when I’m here on Sundays, people do stop by and they talk to me and they say how pretty it is and how nice it is that I come here and I tend to it all the time and I make sure that it always looks good,” she said.

“It’s just a lot of trauma on top of what we’re already going through.”

Angelis says Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley has expressed his support for a more permanent memorial in the same spot. Meanwhile, the RCMP continues to ask anyone with information to come forward.