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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2022 | Volume 35 No. 35
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Weekend murder has markings of gang hit MICHAEL POTESTIO
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MICHAEL POTESTIO/KTW Police released stock photos of a late 1990s-model Honda Civic, black in colour, similar to the car that was torched in Rayleigh following shootings in Brocklehurst that killed one person and injured a second person. The Aug. 26 shootings occurred along Ord Road, a few metres east of Singh Street, in the area of the Singh Bowl soccer fields.
called to a vehicle fire on Frontage Road in Rayleigh and police are now trying to determine whether the fatal shooting and vehicle fire, involving a late 1990s model black Honda Civic, are related. Police had a pullout area off Ord Road between Foothills and the City of Kamloops BMX track cordoned off on Saturday morning. By Sunday morning, police had cleared the scene. Some shards of glass and a piece of police tape were all that remained. One Foothills Estates resident
told KTW he was sitting on his deck when, at about 10:45 p.m., he heard a series of five shots. “I heard three and then two. I heard three rapid fire — bang, bang, bang — and then bang, bang with a space,” the resident said. He said he paused for a second upon hearing the noises and then went inside his home. Asked if he heard any tires squealing, the resident said he only heard the gunshots. Another park resident who lives just off Ord Road said a couple of
cars went by his home, but he’s not sure if they stopped. Right after they passed by, he heard what sounded like three or four fireworks go off. “It was kinda scary,” said the resident. A third resident, whose Foothills Estates home backs onto the section of Ord Road near where the shooting took place, said she was lying awake in bed when she heard what sounded like five “whacking” noises that rang out consecutively
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with “no hesitation.” A fourth resident said she was watching TV at about 10:45 p.m. when she heard what she thought was someone banging on her back door — a prospect that frightened the Kamloops senior, given the time. “I waited and then I turned all my lights out, but then I looked up a little bit later and there was all the [emergency vehicle] lights up above [my home],” she said. See POLICE, A7
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Numerous residents in the Foothills Estates mobile home park said they heard five gunshots ring out late Friday night in what they would later learn was Kamloops’ third homicide of the year. Many of those who spoke to KTW following the shooting mentioned having never heard gunfire before, nor has the park experienced anything like what took place on the street just outside their homes in the 1500-block of Ord Road in Brocklehurst. At about 10:45 p.m. that night, officers responded to a 9-1-1 call along Ord Road a few metres east of Singh Street in Brocklehurst — in the area of the Singh Bowl soccer fields. There, police found two men had been shot while inside a red Toyota Matrix. The driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead shortly after police arrival, while the second victim was taken to hospital in stable condition. Police say the deceased was well known to them. Several hours later, at about 2 a.m. on Saturday, police were