Dozens of people came out in Nanaimo on Wednesday to say goodbye to a teenager whose death remains a mystery.
Makayla Chang, 16, was found dead in May, more than two months after she went missing. Police are treating her death as a homicide.
Chang was reported missing on March 22. Police had said they believed she could have traveled to Metro Vancouver with a 53-year-old man, Steven Michael Bacon. Police eventually located Bacon and spoke with him, but did not call him a suspect.
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Brandy McKee, a friend of the family, told Global News in May that Makayla was a very upbeat, positive young lady with the biggest heart. McKee says the family is thankful to anyone who has shown concern for Makayla while she was missing.
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Police have not yet released how Chang died and no one has been arrested.
-With files from Yuliya Talmazan
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