Family and friends of a young Calgary woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend last year gathered at her gravesite on Monday for a candlelight vigil in her honour.

“It's a very bittersweet feeling of, ‘I wish none of this happened and I’d do anything to get her back,’ but that's not possible,” Racha said. “So the only way we can go about it is to do something good out of this.”

Nadia El-Dib's body was found in the backyard of a northeast Calgary home on March 25. Police say she was the victim of a domestic homicide.