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“She was like a Disney princess.”

Those are the words a friend uses to describe Stacey Perry — a 29-year-old mother who was shot and killed by Calgary police on Christmas morning.

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“(She was) soft-spoken, wore dresses all the time, loved life (and) was so vibrant and full of life,” said Perry’s friend, Carolyn Rennie, holding back emotions.

“Every time I talked to her, she had such a big heart,” Rennie said in a Friday interview with Postmedia. “She cared so much for everyone else.”

Rennie met Perry last June at an addiction treatment centre in Salmon Arm, B.C — a city in which Perry would eventually live.

“(When I met her) she was going through a lot of challenges and we were going to support groups together,” said Rennie.

“Then, after her stay, she decided she would move here,” recalled Rennie. “She got a place here. Her (nine-year-old) daughter was back in Edmonton, so she would visit her when she could. I hooked her (Perry) up with a job at an insurance company here and things were good for four or five months.”