Protest linked to Surrey murder postponed indefinitely
By KIM BOLAN, VANCOUVER SUN October 15, 2011
Maple Batalia, an aspiring model and actress.
Photograph by: Global TV, …

A protest planned for Monday in honour of slain student Maple Batalia has been postponed indefinitely.

Batalia’s friends and relatives had planned to gather in front of the Surrey provincial court to coincide with a schedule appearnace by her former boyfriend Gurjinder (Gary) Dhaliwal.

Dhaliwal’s next court date has also been delayed, prompting organizers to postpone their event.(…)
Dhaliwal, 19, is charged with two counts of assault in connection with an incident at a Tim Horton’s four days before Batalia was gunned down Sept. 28.

No suspects in the murder have been identified by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, which continues to follow up leads in the case.

Batalia, also 19, was sprayed with gunfire about 1 a.m. in a parking lot beside Surrey’s Simon Fraser University campus.

The health sciences student, actor and model had spent the evening studying before she was killed.

Police have released surveillance footage of a white 2011 Dodge Charger, believed to be driven by the suspect, that was captured racing away from the murder scene.

Roseleen Batalia said she won’t rest until her sister’s killer to is brought to justice.

“A message to the criminals who executed my sister at SFU Surrey on Sept. 28, 2011,” she wrote online. “You can run, but you can’t hide. Your mothers can only shelter you for so long…playing God with a gun, prison is gonna be hell.”

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