Chicoma Seaton signs a balloon for Aaron Shoulders at the seventh annual Aaron Shoulders Walk for Justice in downtown Calgary on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012.
photo by STUART DRYDEN/CALGARY SUN
by CARL JOHNSON SPECIAL TO THE SUN
While it’s been nine years since her son’s murder, a Calgary mother’s resolve to find his killer hasn’t waivered.
On Saturday, she and others marched again from the place he was killed to the place where justice still needs to be served.
The symbolic walk was the seventh since the Aug. 17, 2003 death of Aaron Shoulders, an innocent bystander who was allegedly swarmed by 12 gang members who beat and fatally stabbed the teen in front of NYLA, a now defunct nightclub on the 1 St. S.W. strip.
He was 18 years old.
Steffi Stehwien, Shoulders’ mother, said she has not given up the fight to find her son’s killers and has been throwing everything she has at raising awareness about his death.
“Violence kills, but silence kills more,” she said.
“I’m never giving up this fight and I’m more ready to fight this now than ever before.”
And every year since 2005, they’ve marched from 121, 1st Street S.W, where her son perished to the Calgary Courts Centre before returning to 1st Street.
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Others who lost loved ones have joined the march,
Upon their arrival at the Calgary Courts Centre, family members read aloud their loved ones’ names.
“More than a dozen have come forward in the past to read aloud their perished loved ones’ names, it varies from year to year, but we always have a great turnout,” said Stehwien.
Some attached messages with the names of those who’ve died to balloons that were launched at the end of the march.
Stehwien said she hasn’t received an update regarding her case in almost two years.
“I feel like I’ve been forgotten. The last time the (Calgary) police contacted me about Aaron was just under two years ago.”
The Calgary Police Service wouldn’t comment Saturday on the Shoulders murder case, but did say that not all old murder cases are “cold” cases, they are simply unsolved.
“Every crime that is reported has an investigation that is never closed until we’ve found resolution,” said Insp. Grant Miller.
“Cold and unsolved cases are two different things, this is simply an unsolved case.”