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HIT-AND-RUN DEATH IN MORNINGSTAR
Calling for safer streets
Police have identified vehicle that may have killed 80-year-old woman JOHN HARDING AND CANDACE WU
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Police said Monday they believe they have identified the vehicle and driver from a hit-and-run incident that claimed the life of an 80-yearold French Creek woman on Wednesday. Oceanside RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman had just finished speaking with the major crimes unit when reached by The NEWS on Monday afternoon. “They believe they have found the vehicle and person responsible,” said Foreman. He said the driver identified by major crimes “has been extremely co-operative” and “there is pretty reasonable doubt the (driver) even knew it happened.” Foreman said forensic evidence gathered from the vehicle — a delivery vehicle of some sort — has been sent to the lab. Foreman said police are not likely to make any decisions on recommending charges against the driver, or not, until that evidence is processed, which could take as long as a month. Foreman also said he did not want to identify the specific vehicle for fear of “vigilanteism” and he also said there was no evidence of speed, reckless driving or alcohol being a factor in this case. According to a news release issued by Oceanside RCMP Thursday morning, at approximately 3 p.m. Wednesday a woman was found lying on the side of the road on Roberton Boulevard, near Lakes Boulevard in French Creek (Morningstar area). Neighbours identified the victim as Gwen Chisholm. Police said she was discovered a short distance from her home by a passerby. Paramedics were called and she was transported by B.C. Ambulance to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. She died at approximately 11 p.m. as a result of the serious head trauma sustained. “Investigators are confident that the female’s injuries were consistent with being struck by a passing vehicle,” states the news release. Friends and neighbours of Chisholm say they’re both devastated and frustrated — especially because the victim was intimately involved in a movement calling for safer streets just months before her death. Chisholm was the third person to a sign a petition ultimately garnering 169 signatures in November. See WINDING ROAD WITH BLINDSPOTS, page A4
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A memorial has been placed in the French Creek (Morningstar) neighbourhood of Gwen Chisholm, who was struck and killed Wednesday afternoon in an apparent hit-and-run incident.
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