Residents of a Surrey neighbourhood are demanding action following the fatal beating of a mother outside of a local ice rink.

The Newton Community Association is holding a public forum Monday night to look for answers in the aftermath of the tragic killing of 53-year-old Julie Paskall.

“We want some solutions, we don’t want people coming and screaming and venting and telling their terrible crime stories, because we all have them,” said organizer Doug Elford. “We want people to come with constructive solutions and some answers.”

Surrey RCMP and Surrey Crime Prevention Society are expected to be on hand to field concerns from the community, he said.

Paskall was attacked Dec. 29 as she waited outside Newton Arena for her son to finish refereeing a hockey game. She was left severely beaten and died two days later in hospital, surrounded by family.

Police suspect she was the victim of a random robbery and her attacker hasn’t been caught.

“This is supposed to be the safest part of our community, the front doors of a hockey arena during a Christmas hockey tournament, people are outraged about this,” Elford said. “The community association is getting a lot of people willing to step forward and get involved now.”

Patricia MacNeal, who said she recently moved to the Surrey community, is outraged over the incident.

“I just moved here, I want to move back to Langley. I’ve had it,” she said. “This is ridiculous, people shouldn’t have to life like this: in fear. And that’s what it is, fear.”

But the hockey community is rallying around Paskall’s husband and three kids in the aftermath of her death, donating all of the proceeds of a local hockey raffle to the family.

Bill Hoadley, who works with Al Paskall as a longshoreman, said a trust opened at Vancity for the family is getting donations from across the country.

“All the members down here, the longshoremen wanted to help Al out financially so he didn’t have to race back to work,” he said. “We started up a collection here…then it got onto Facebook and other unions wanted to start helping.”

Police canvassed for tips in the area around Newton Arena last week, looking for information that will help catch Paskall’s killer.

There were 25 homicides recorded in Surrey in 2013, a record high that provoked the mayor to launch a task force last month.