By Kellah Lavoie

Family asks for help in fatal hit and run

Jul 22, 2011 | 6:35 AM

Gloria Naytowhow is asking for help.

She is the sister of John Moses Bird, the man who was killed in a hit and run in early April on the Montreal Lake First Nation. Three months after his death and RCMP are still looking for answers.

“All they have is leads, assumptions, people just talking and nobody is coming forward,” she said.

“All that we are getting is people who come and tell us ‘oh this person had said this and that,’ that he had hit my brothers or she had hit my brother.

“Hearsay, that’s all it is.”

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RCMP do not have any suspects, but are still investigating, said Const. Rob Fines, with the RCMP.

They are hoping the public has some answers.

“Sometimes you know as investigations go on and as time goes on people feel more comfortable coming forward,” he said.

While serving justice is a goal, he said the most important thing is bring closure to Bird’s family.

“If they could find somebody it would bring closure to us,” Naytowhow said.

“It’s so hard, myself I still feel angry … I just feel angry at the people who did it.”

She said there is no end to her story until the person responsible is found.

“It’s been hard,” she said. “There is still somebody out there walking around who had done this to our brother … who would do such a thing.”

Naytowhow wants anyone who has information to call the RCMP and help her and her family end the “struggle” they have been faced with for the past three months.

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