A year ago on May 12 Rachelle Leost was on her way to work at Costco.
It was a Saturday, 4 a.m., and the young mother was on duty for on the early-morning shift.
She'd just pulled up at the corner of Cathedral Avenue and Arlington Street.
She didn't know her life was in the hands of a car thief.
Seconds later a thief behind the wheel of a stolen van blew a stop sign.
He rammed Leost in her vehicle, killing her instantly.
The corner was the site of a candlelight vigil Monday evening organized by Leost's six sisters.
"We can't let anyone forget what happened to our baby sister," vigil organizer Louise Marcheschuk said.
Leost wasn't the first victim of an epidemic of car thefts that the city can't seem to stop and the way car thieves behave on city streets she won't be the last either, the sister said.
The vigil is also intended to give the woman's family a platform to appeal to authorities to do something to stop the carnage.
"How many more people have to die?" Our lives were destroyed after that. My dad had a heart attack and died last August. We're doing the vigil to pray and to just speak out," Marcheschuk said.
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