The Resurrected One
February 24th, 2009, 08:07 PM
Happened a week ago, but:
Feb 17, 2009 04:30 AM
Petti Fong
WESTERN CANADA BUREAU CHIEF
VANCOUVER – The fatal shooting of a young woman driving down a busy street yesterday morning with a 4-year-old boy in the backseat has stunned even veteran police investigators.
Police aren't saying yet whether the shooting in the suburb of Surrey is related to a gang turf war that has left six dead in the last 10 days in the Metro Vancouver area.
The boy, strapped into the woman's white Cadillac, was unharmed. Police would not reveal the victim's relationship to the child.
The brazenness of the daylight attack has taken even police by surprise.
"When you start throwing young kids in the mix there, regardless of who this woman was and what her affiliations may or may not have been, it really is irrelevant when there's a child sitting in the back," said Cpl. Peter Thiessen, of the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force.
"Clearly these shooters, they have no bloody conscience. It's that simple."
It was the second shooting in Surrey in less than 12 hours.
Late Sunday night, a man was wounded when an SUV drove up beside his Range Rover and someone opened fire, wounding him in the shoulder.
"We can't say if it's gang warfare," Cpl. Dale Carr with the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Unit, said of the woman's shooting. "That the little boy was in the car when she was shot, that was very horrific. It's beyond comprehension, frankly."
Police are trying to determine whether the woman was shot by someone on the street or by someone in a passing vehicle.
In recent days, area residents have been forced to dive for cover at the supermarket and in the parking lot of shopping centres and strip malls.
In the Range Rover shooting, police said the driver was "merely an acquaintance of a person" involved in drugs and gang culture.
The cycle of gang shootings appears to have been triggered by the shooting death Feb. 3 of Raphael Baldini, a 21-year-old who was linked to an infamous mass killing in October 2007, when six people were killed in a Surrey apartment.
Baldini held the lease on the apartment where the six bodies were found. Two of the victims, one who lived across from the apartment and a gas fireplace repairman, were innocent bystanders. There have been no arrests.
The family of another innocent victim caught in the recent violence also stepped forward last week. Jonathan Barber, a car stereo installer was shot and killed last May while driving a Porsche that belonged to a known gang associate.
On the same day Baldini was shot while sitting in his SUV at a mall, a woman, Brianna Kinnear, who had served time for drug trafficking was killed while in her car.
Last week, Premier Gordon Campbell announced the province will assign more officers and prosecutors to tackle gang-related crime.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/588508
There was actually a murder on the road I take to school a week or two ago. Not sure if it was related to this, but the whole road was shut down.
Feb 17, 2009 04:30 AM
Petti Fong
WESTERN CANADA BUREAU CHIEF
VANCOUVER – The fatal shooting of a young woman driving down a busy street yesterday morning with a 4-year-old boy in the backseat has stunned even veteran police investigators.
Police aren't saying yet whether the shooting in the suburb of Surrey is related to a gang turf war that has left six dead in the last 10 days in the Metro Vancouver area.
The boy, strapped into the woman's white Cadillac, was unharmed. Police would not reveal the victim's relationship to the child.
The brazenness of the daylight attack has taken even police by surprise.
"When you start throwing young kids in the mix there, regardless of who this woman was and what her affiliations may or may not have been, it really is irrelevant when there's a child sitting in the back," said Cpl. Peter Thiessen, of the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force.
"Clearly these shooters, they have no bloody conscience. It's that simple."
It was the second shooting in Surrey in less than 12 hours.
Late Sunday night, a man was wounded when an SUV drove up beside his Range Rover and someone opened fire, wounding him in the shoulder.
"We can't say if it's gang warfare," Cpl. Dale Carr with the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Unit, said of the woman's shooting. "That the little boy was in the car when she was shot, that was very horrific. It's beyond comprehension, frankly."
Police are trying to determine whether the woman was shot by someone on the street or by someone in a passing vehicle.
In recent days, area residents have been forced to dive for cover at the supermarket and in the parking lot of shopping centres and strip malls.
In the Range Rover shooting, police said the driver was "merely an acquaintance of a person" involved in drugs and gang culture.
The cycle of gang shootings appears to have been triggered by the shooting death Feb. 3 of Raphael Baldini, a 21-year-old who was linked to an infamous mass killing in October 2007, when six people were killed in a Surrey apartment.
Baldini held the lease on the apartment where the six bodies were found. Two of the victims, one who lived across from the apartment and a gas fireplace repairman, were innocent bystanders. There have been no arrests.
The family of another innocent victim caught in the recent violence also stepped forward last week. Jonathan Barber, a car stereo installer was shot and killed last May while driving a Porsche that belonged to a known gang associate.
On the same day Baldini was shot while sitting in his SUV at a mall, a woman, Brianna Kinnear, who had served time for drug trafficking was killed while in her car.
Last week, Premier Gordon Campbell announced the province will assign more officers and prosecutors to tackle gang-related crime.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/588508
There was actually a murder on the road I take to school a week or two ago. Not sure if it was related to this, but the whole road was shut down.