An instructor in Camosun’s Management and Human Resource Leadership department has been identified as the victim of a homicide.
Laura Gover-Basar, who also taught at Vancouver Island University, was killed on January 5 in Saanich; Gover-Basar, who was 41, is believed to be the victim of intimate partner violence. Gover-Basar’s ex-partner Muhammed Ali Basar has been charged with second-degree murder.
Gover-Basar had been at Camosun since 2021. A GoFundMe has been set up to help support her two daughters, who are 7 and 11; the link can be accessed at gofundme.com/f/support-for-laura-govers-daughters.
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