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He was an ‘accident waiting to happen’ Drunk driver destroyed my family: mom BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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An RCMP cruiser stands watch at a home where a senior was shot and stabbed Tuesday evening.
Senior shot and stabbed
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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ounties say they found “a small amount of growing marijuana” at the home of a Chilliwack senior who was shot and stabbed in an apparent home invasion Tuesday evening. The 72-year-old victim is in hospital and in stable condition. Police are still looking for his attacker. RCMP believe that the home was targeted, although they can not say for certain that the marijuana was the reason for the attack. “We’re now exploring it as one
The suspect left on foot and, despite the use of police dog units, was not found. The victim, meanwhile, dragged himself across the street to a neighbour’s home. He had a gash on the left side of the head and a gunshot wound to his right arm, according to Ken Lefebvre, who lives across the street. Lefebvre said he was in his house when he heard dogs start to bark.
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He thought nothing of it, even when his own dogs started to “kick up a hell of a fuss,” which was not normal. Then his next door neighbour banged on his door. “He said we need help. Call 911. Kenny’s been beat up.” Lefebvre rushed out of his house, phone in hand. He said the victim
said to Leclerc, chilliwacktimes.com who pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing bodily harm last month. “You should have known not to get behind that wheel.” Earlier, Judge Richard Romano heard that, with a blood-alcohol content of .210—more than twoand-a-half times the legal limit—the 48-year-old Leclerc had sped down Chilliwack River Road on Sept. 25, tailgating cars and driving aggressively. While attempting to pass one vehicle on the shoulder and grass, struck 15-year-old Christopher Malloway, breaking his shoulder, nose and both legs, and leaving him with a concussion.
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Pot plants found in home of 72-year-old, but police can’t say whether victim was targeted
of the investigational possibilities but we still don’t know why the residence was targeted,” said RCMP spokesperson Cpl. LeaAnne Dunlop. Police say a man knocked on the victim’s door, in the 46000 block of 5th Avenue, around 6 p.m. Tuesday. When the door was opened, the man showed the senior a gun. A struggle ensued during which the senior was shot and stabbed.
esley Christjohn sobbed as she addressed the man who, while driving drunk two months prior, struck and severely injured her 15-year-old son. “I hope you get help,” she told Christopher Leclerc during his sentencing hearing Thursday in Chilliwack provincial court, “because you destroyed my family. Really you did. “Ever yday I look at my son laying there [with] so many dreams. And he can’t do them because you EB IRST took them from him,” Christjohn First reported on
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