Mourners turned out by the hundreds Saturday to pay their last respects to Maple Batalia, the Simon Fraser University student gunned down 10 days ago in Surrey, B.C.
A packed funeral service was held at 11 a.m. in Delta, where grieving family and friends remembered the 19-year-old as a beautiful young woman full of promise.
"I still don't believe she's gone," Batalia's friend Kanika Sasan told CTV News.
Batalia's father Harry, who describes his daughter as a "tender, soft spoken" angel who reminded him to take his medication, said he will not rest until her killer is caught.
"I am looking forward for justice," he said Saturday. "Justice is the only thing that can comfort me."
The service came less than 24 hours after investigators announced they had identified a suspect vehicle in her death.
Batalia was killed in a parking lot at the SFU Surrey campus in the early morning hours of Sept. 28. Surveillance video taken the same morning shows a white, late-model Dodge Charger with a sunroof driving away from the scene of her murder.
Cpl. Jennifer Pound urged any witnesses who may have seen the vehicle in the area that morning to contact police.
Police have said there is no evidence linking the murder to drugs or organized crime. No arrests have been made, but as many as 50 investigators have been assigned to the case.
Batalia's ex-boyfriend has been charged with assaulting her just days before her murder. Gurjinder "Gary" Dhaliwal, turned himself in on two assault charges on Monday.
The charges stem from an incident at a Tim Hortons donut shop on King George Boulevard on Sept. 24 against Batalia and a teenaged boy.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Bhinder Sajan
