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The Takkar family (left to right), Sukhvir with six-yearold daughter Sabrina, Shelly and grandmother Roop celebrate the birth of their New Year’s baby boy. (Below) Tiffany Ferguson, Matthew Sitter and son Tysen show off their New Year’s baby Isabella.
“Shrek” possible target in shooting
Woman lucky to be alive following gunfire ROCHELLE BAKER RBaker@abbotsfordtimes.com
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n Abbotsford woman narrowly escaped with her life after the pickup truck she was driving was shot up in the driveway of Brian “Shrek” Dhaliwal’s home on Tuesday night. The Abbotsford gang suppression unit is investigating what police believe is a targeted shooting in the 2500 block of Bradner Road, said Const. Ian MacDonald.
“. . . one round narrowly missed her head.”
Baby boom begins 2011 “I wished for a New Year’s baby,” says Shelly. Her son weighed in at seven pounds, 13 ounces and has a swath of dark hair. Although he was delivered by Cesarean section after 15 hours of labour, he’s apparently giving her no trouble now. “He sleeps at night. He just wakes up to be fed and goes back to sleep,” said Shelly. She and her husband, who both emigrated to Abbotsford from India, feel they are fortunate for more than the fact their son was born at New Year’s. “We think we are lucky because a new infant
The Abbotsford-Mission Times has learned one of the possible targets of the attack is 27-year-old Barinder or Brian “Shrek” Dhaliwal. MacDonald said the APD is familiar with the home where the attack took place, and particularly with two men in their 20s who live at the residence. The two men are related, with one having had as many as 136 interactions with police. Dhaliwal has a limited criminal record that included charges of assault and guilty pleas of driving with a suspended licence. The Dhaliwal home is equipped with surveillance cameras and APD forensic video experts are trying to retrieve evidence of the shooting.
see BABIES, page A17
see SHOOTING, page A5
First babies of 2011 born in different hospitals
ROCHELLE BAKER RBaker@abbotsfordtimes.com
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ix-year-old Sabrina Takkar can’t take her eyes off her infant brother, who was also the first baby born in 2011 at Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre. “He plays with me by opening his tiny eyes,” she said, gently poking her new brother. A small burp emerges from his little form and sends his older sister into gales of laughter. It also produces smiles from the boy’s parents, Shelly and Sukhvir Takkar. Shelly gave birth to her son – who hasn’t been named yet – at 12:18 a.m. on Jan. 1.
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