Social media has jumped on the tragedy of a 20-year-old Calgary murder victim, both as an outlet to memorialize and as a vehicle to spread awareness around issues of domestic violence.

Lacey Jones-McKnight was allegedly murdered by her ex-boyfriend last Thursday.

Charged with second-degree murder is ex-boyfriend Kristopher Guenther.

Shelly Jones, Jones-McKnight’s mother, told The Calgary Sun her daughter’s co-workers called her on Saturday indicating they were banding together in support of their fallen colleague, both in fundraising and social media efforts.

They indicated they were planning to raise funds to cover Jones-McKnight’s funeral costs as well as donations toward ending domestic violence.

One poster, Nicole Cherie, writes on the Facebook page: “We need to fight for harsher laws in Canada and maybe a revision of the Canadian Charter of Rights which seems to protect the offender instead of the victim. Petition?”

And Lisa Sorenson Degenhardt says: “R.I.P. Lacey…So much tragedy, not enough protection, anywhere…you will be missed and never forgotten.”

Also taking to social media this weekend was Alderman Diane Colley-Urquhart who sits on the Calgary Police Commission.

She was defending Calgary Police Services as having the most proactive approach when it comes to addressing issues of domestic violence, more so, than anywhere else in the country.

A member of Calgary City Council is proposing a new initiative for crimes involving domestic abuse.

Alderman Diane Colley-Urquhart, a member of the Calgary Police Commission, is pushing for roundtable discussions between prevention agencies and police.

This comes after Lacey’s mother Shelly Jones told The Calgary Sun several calls were made to police about previous abuse from her daughter’s accused ex-boyfriend but nothing serious was done.

Colley-Urquhart says more has to be done.

“We have a lot of people doing excellent people doing excellent work, and we need to bring them all to the table so we can communicate this to Calgarians, and stand up for any form of domestic violence in our city, it’s unacceptable,” say Colley-Urquhart.

She says despite this recent tragedy, Calgary Police have taken major steps in preventing violence in the last five years.