Over 500 relatives, friends and supporters attended a candlelight vigil March 6 for a 14-year-old girl who was found murdered several weeks after running away from a Mesa group home.
Emily Pike, a Kino Junior High student, was last seen in Mesa on Jan. 27 and her dismembered body was found on Valentine’s Day near Globe along U.S. 60.
While remembering Emily, the mourners also called attention to what they called the lack of action by police and other authorities toward the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The victim was a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe…