Coroner Announces Inquest for Tatyanna Harrison – The Tyee

May 7, 2025

Families have been seeking inquests for Harrison, Noelle O’Soup and Chelsea Poorman, all Indigenous young people.

B.C.’s chief coroner says the investigation into the death of Tatyanna Harrison will be reopened and an inquest held, three years after the discovery of her half-naked body on a boat in a Richmond marina.

The announcement comes one day after the families of Harrison, Chelsea Poorman and Noelle O’Soup called for coroner’s inquests into all three cases. The young Indigenous people’s bodies were discovered in Vancouver over six months in 2022.

“As a parent, I cannot fathom the trauma and grief that the Harrison family has experienced over the past three years,” Jatinder Baidwan said in a statement. “The pain of losing a child is unimaginable, and the concerns the Harrisons have expressed regarding the circumstances of Tatyanna’s death only adds to that pain.”