Aisha Harouya was a 21-year-old woman with a heart of gold and a passion for fashion. A resident of Surrey, British Columbia, she was her mother's only daughter and best friend. Her family remembers her as a jokester who loved animals, especially her dog, Lexi. Aisha dreamed of becoming a makeup artist, studying hair and makeup with plans to one day move to Los Angeles. She and her mother, Ashni Ram, were planning a trip to Paris together before her life was cut short.
On the morning of July 25, 2022, officers with the Surrey Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) responded to a report of a deceased person in a parking lot. In the 11100-block of 124 Street, they located the body of a young woman, soon identified as Aisha Harouya. Investigators determined that her death was the result of foul play, though they have not publicly released her cause of death.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took conduct of the case in November 2022.
Since then, they have worked in partnership with the Surrey RCMP, the RCMP Forensic Identification Service, and the BC Coroners Service. Through their investigation, police learned that Aisha was last seen alive on July 24, 2022, the day before her body was found. She was in the area of 100 Avenue and Whalley Boulevard in Surrey. Investigators have not determined a motive for the killing and have not publicly stated if they believe Aisha was targeted.
In January 2024, nearly a year and a half after her daughter's death, Ashni Ram made a public appeal for information. "My whole world just came shattering down on me that day," she said in a video released by police. "I wake up every day thinking this is just a nightmare and I'm going to wake up and she's going to come through the door and say, 'Mommy, I'm home.' I just miss hearing her voice, I just miss everything about her." She described the unending pain of losing her only daughter, a loss that has changed her family forever.
"She will never get the chance to go to college, get married, have kids, she will have none of that," her mother said. "I will never hear her say the words 'Mommy' or 'I Love You' ever again." The family pleaded for anyone with even the smallest piece of information to come forward to give them a measure of closure and peace.
Ashni Ram specifically asked for anyone who saw her daughter between July 23 and July 24, 2022, to contact investigators. "If you have any information or can remember seeing my daughter Aisha, or anyone she was talking to, walking with, if she got into a car with anyone... to please come forward," she pleaded. "We need justice served not only for my daughter but for other young women to end violence against women."
As of a February 2026 update to the RCMP's unsolved cases page, no arrests have been made in Aisha's murder, and the investigation remains active. IHIT continues to seek information from the public that could help them solve the case. Anyone with information is asked to contact the IHIT Information Line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at [email protected].
