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mersar Feb 8, 2009 7:12 AM

Well it looks like Calgary will have another one pretty soon judging by this pattern. Guy who is known to CPS was shot at on Friday night, ran away but went to hospital later that night where he was treated and released. Same guy was shot at on Saturday night, again taken to hospital (this time by EMS and under police guard) and will likely be released pretty quickly tomorrow. CPS is being proactive though and has the homicide unit doing the investigation of both shootings.

1ajs Feb 8, 2009 7:15 AM

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Originally Posted by mersar (Post 4074750)
Well it looks like Calgary will have another one pretty soon judging by this pattern. Guy who is known to CPS was shot at on Friday night, ran away but went to hospital later that night where he was treated and released. Same guy was shot at on Saturday night, again taken to hospital (this time by EMS and under police guard) and will likely be released pretty quickly tomorrow. CPS is being proactive though and has the homicide unit doing the investigation of both shootings.

good god wth did he do to desserve to get shot let alone twice in the same week? :sly:

lubicon Feb 9, 2009 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by 1ajs (Post 4074757)
good god wth did he do to desserve to get shot let alone twice in the same week? :sly:

He was 'known to police'. In other words a gang member.

vid Feb 10, 2009 12:13 AM

Not necessarily a gang member, he could just have a past criminal record.

raggedy13 Feb 10, 2009 2:22 AM

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Originally Posted by touraccuracy (Post 3940231)
nobody else seems to be updating vancouver's stats so here we go:

we're at 51 for the metro

the most recent was a guy shot in a strip mall parking lot at 10pm on the 25th in surrey. no suspects yet.

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/homicide/


that's an awesome link with a map of metro vancouver with markers where all the murders have taken place and they link to dates and stories.

That is a pretty good link. Looks like Metro Vancouver is at 11 so far - 4 in all of January and 7 in the first week of February. Looks like Surrey was the murder capital of the Metro last year.

touraccuracy Feb 10, 2009 4:42 AM

Yup, tons of gang violence so far this month in the Vancouver Metro.

Surrey... no suprise.

MsMe Feb 10, 2009 4:45 AM

I believe Hamilton is still at number one. Which is early for a murder here. Some years haven't had the first till mid year. Let's hope not anymore.

vid Feb 10, 2009 1:26 PM

Thunder Bay has had many years where the first murder was around Christmas. Really fucks up a good year. :(

LFRENCH Feb 17, 2009 7:16 AM

chalk another one up for Vancouver and although it was a "manslaugter" some random drunk dude pushed a girl infront of a bus on thursday in victoria.

1ajs Feb 17, 2009 7:19 AM

Woman killed and man wounded in two separate Metro Vancouver shootings
THE CANADIAN PRESS
SURREY, B.C. - The fatal shooting of a woman as she drove with a young child in the back seat of her luxury car has stunned even veteran investigators, an RCMP spokesman said Monday.
"Many officers would say, yeah, nothing really shocks us anymore when you start dealing with these homicides on a daily, weekly basis, which many of us are," said Cpl. Peter Thiessen.
"But man, I've got to tell you, 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.
"Clearly these shooters, they have no bloody conscience. It's that simple."
The as-yet unidentified woman was killed when at least four bullets hit the side of her Cadillac sedan as she drove it down a street in suburban Surrey. The car veered into a driveway, where police found her slumped behind the wheel.
The four-year-old child in the back seat was unhurt.
It was the second targeted shooting in Metro Vancouver in 12 hours and the latest in a string of more than a dozen shootings, six of them fatal, in the last two weeks.
Two young men who police say had gang ties were gunned down in broad daylight as they sat in their vehicles outside shopping malls in Surrey and Langley. A third was wounded in a similar but late-night attack in Vancouver.
Around midnight Sunday a man was wounded in the shoulder when an SUV drove up beside his Range Rover at an intersection in Surrey and someone opened fire.
Police say they believe the likely target was the man sitting behind the driver, who they say has ties to the local drug and gang culture.
Investigators aren't yet tying the woman's death Monday morning to gangs, although it has many of the hallmarks.
"There's nothing based in factual evidence to suggest that it's linked to gangs, linked to any of our other homicides or even linked to a domestic," said Cpl. Dale Carr, spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. "We're looking at all of those open mindedly and ensuring that we don't go into tunnel vision."
Thiessen, speaking for the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force, said the unit will be sharing intelligence with homicide investigators working this case.
"The gang task force is brought in routinely in investigations such as this and in other serious files where there's the potential of any gang connection or gang affiliation to provide intelligence or some direction as to who may be involved on the victim side or on the suspect side," he said.
It's the second time this month that a woman has been shot to death in her vehicle. Brianna Helen Kinnear, who was serving a conditional sentence for drug trafficking, was found dead in her pickup truck in suburban Coquitlam.
"I think for the most part it's rare," said Thiessen. "That certainly raises the level of concern."
But the presence of a child in Monday's attack ups the ante, he said.
"You've got to think the shooters were fairly well aware that there was a child in this vehicle and it didn't seem to matter."
Police have not yet confirmed whether the victim was the child's mother. The child is in the care of the RCMP until a decision is made on whether he or she would be handed over to a relative or child-protection workers.
Investigators are canvassing the neighbourhood of the attack for potential witnesses, Carr said.
It's too early to say whether the child could give them any useful information, said Thiessen.
"There's huge issues around approaching this child and interviewing this child and to do it properly with proper professional support and in the proper setting," he said.
"It's just not a matter of sitting this child down and talking to the child. It is an entire intricate process with top professionals involved in any discussions that would occur with the child."
- By Steve Mertl in Vancouver
Content Provided By Canadian Press.
http://www.cjob.com/News/National/Article.aspx?id=86884

mersar Feb 18, 2009 6:37 PM

Calgary Police have launched an online map system to show where various crimes (homicide, arson, vehicle theft, and a few less major) have occurred, currently only lets you go back to the past 6 months but it is a start.

Dmajackson Feb 18, 2009 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by vid (Post 4078713)
Thunder Bay has had many years where the first murder was around Christmas. Really fucks up a good year. :(

Well here in Hali almost annually the first murder happens on New Year's rite after midnight.

It didn't happen this year tho...too many people in the coat check line at the Cunard Centre :P

HRP found a body in an apartment in Halifax (near Bedford) last night. No say on wether it was a homicide or not yet.

cornholio Feb 19, 2009 9:45 PM

I find it funny how people lump "gangs" and "organized criminal organizations" in to one pile.

1ajs Feb 19, 2009 9:48 PM

theres the silly wanabees gangs then theres the middle ones that fight it out then theres the big guys u just don't mess with..

losttvseries Feb 20, 2009 5:55 AM

Do you mean the stars in Homicide: Life on the Street?


Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto are amazing!

Beltliner Feb 20, 2009 6:06 AM

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Originally Posted by losttvseries (Post 4099232)
Do you mean the stars in Homicide: Life on the Street?


Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto are amazing!

Belzer in particular is amazing for taking his John Munch character from Baltimore to NYC to Orange County and back to NYC again. ;)

1ajs Feb 20, 2009 8:16 AM

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Originally Posted by losttvseries (Post 4099232)
Do you mean the stars in Homicide: Life on the Street?


Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto are amazing!

i miss that show :(

blake10 Feb 21, 2009 7:08 AM

Well Winnipeg has been pretty quiet...no homicides for a few weeks now (we're still at 6 for the year so far). We usually have about 1 every two weeks so I guess we've been lucky lately (though there have been at least 5-6 people rushed to hospital in "critical condition" from various beatings, stabbings, etc over the past week or two).

osirisboy Feb 21, 2009 2:48 PM

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Originally Posted by LFRENCH (Post 4092665)
chalk another one up for Vancouver and although it was a "manslaugter" some random drunk dude pushed a girl infront of a bus on thursday in victoria.

what? since when is victoria part of metro vancouver?

vid Feb 21, 2009 8:50 PM

He said "and". He was adding 1 for Vancouver and mentioning something that happened in Victoria.

I saw that on the news last week, terrible thing.


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