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Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said he has every confidence police in the Lower Mainland have the right strategies in place to combat escalating gang violence.
Farnworth, who is also solicitor general, met with the chiefs of police of municipal departments and commanders of RCMP detachments on Thursday afternoon.
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After the meeting, Farnworth told Postmedia News everyone agrees on the necessary response to the shootings and murders.
“I am very pleased with the meeting. It was a very productive meeting and everybody is on the same page,” he said. “I am pleased with the direction police are going. There is no issue about lack of co-operation. It’s not an issue of resources.”
The two others shot, a man and a woman, were transported to hospital. A man and woman were admitted to Royal Columbian Hospital after a shooting at a Burnaby mall parking lot. (Shane MacKichan for PNG)
Sources said the murder is likely retaliation for the fatal shooting of United Nations gangster Karman Grewal, 28, at Vancouver International Airport on Sunday afternoon.
Someone at the scene confirmed to Postmedia that none of the three were customers of the Cactus Club restaurant in the complex, though they were shot near an outside patio. And the young injured woman once worked there.
Others on the patio screamed and dove for cover after the shots rang out. Broken glass was scattered around the patio.
Cory Vallee in 2011 mug shots provided by police. Photo by PNG files
United Nations gang hitman Cory Vallee should get a new trial because the judge who convicted him erred in assessing the credibility of former gangsters-turned-Crown witnesses, Vallee’s lawyer said Tuesday.
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And Eric Gottardi told the B.C. Court of Appeal that the trial judge also failed to fully recognize the impact on Vallee’s defence of the late disclosure of a video that showed him near the Langley spot where Red Scorpion Kevin LeClair was gunned down in 2009.
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Senior police officers from across the Lower Mainland tried to reassure the public Monday they are doing everything they can to combat gang violence despite two weekend murders, including an unprecedented shooting at Vancouver International Airport.
Supt. Dave Chauhan, head of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, announced that a murder charge had already been laid in Saturdayâs fatal shooting outside a Burnaby vape store.
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He said 20-year-old Ahmed Tahir was arrested and charged with gunning down Toni Dalipi, 19, on 6th Street at 13th Avenue about 7 p.m.
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Six years ago, Surrey RCMP warned people to steer clear of gangster Karman Grewal after he and his friends were shot at but refused to cooperate with police.
On Sunday, Grewal, who was associated to the United Nations gang, was gunned down in a brazen public execution at Vancouver International Airport.
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The killer or killers opened fire at about 3 p.m. in front of the international terminal on the departures level.