Thursday was a difficult day in Regina Provincial Court for the mother of a 27-year-old man stabbed to death on the Piapot First Nation near Regina last month.
Melady Crowe and her family are still having trouble coming to grips with the loss of Melady’s son, Justin Crowe.
“I have been there since day one, I was there when they found him, I was there when they took him away,” Melady said.
She plans to be there for every court appearance of the accused as well.
Tia Justice Pinacie-Littlechief, 20, appeared via video link from the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert.
She is accused of second-degree murder in Justin’s stabbing death.
Justin was stabbed to death at about 6 a.m. on October 27 in a home on the reserve, which is about 20 kilometres north-east of Regina.
His mother says he was not the kind of boy that got into trouble.
“He was very good, he wasn’t in gangs. He was good,” Melady said. “I can’t believe that my boy is gone, that he is never coming home again.”
Justin was a husband and the father of three boys.
The RCMP says Justin and the accused knew one another. Pinacie-Littlechief will be back in court Dec. 10.