Deadly shooting rocks Port Moody neighbourhood

 

 
 
 
 
A 32-year-old man well known to police has died after a shooting at a home in the Glenayre neighbourhood of Port Moody Saturday morning.
 

A 32-year-old man well known to police has died after a shooting at a home in the Glenayre neighbourhood of Port Moody Saturday morning.

Photograph by: Jeremy Deutsch , NOW

PORT MOODY - For the third time in just a few months, a neighbourhood in Port Moody is the scene of a brazen and deadly shooting. Port Moody police were called to a home in the 900 Block of Wallace Wynd in the Glenayre area, just after 10 a.m. Saturday to the report of shots fired. A 32-year-old man had been shot and was rushed to hospital, but he died a couple hours later.

Investigators said the man is "well-known" to police, but wouldn't confirm if the victim was involved in gangs.Police also wouldn't say if the man was shot inside or outside the home. Several streets in the area were taped off, as officers combed the area looking for evidence and speaking to potential witnesses. There are no suspects, and the investigation is being handed over to the Vancouver Police Department.

Several residents in the neighbourhood told The NOW the home of the shooting had been rumored to be involved with drugs, while others said the family had been living in the house for years.Another person living near the home said she saw a man in his 20s running down the street shortly before police arrived on scene.

One resident, who only wanted to use her first name Sherry, said she poked her head out of her house when she saw the police, but was told by an officer to get back inside. She couldn't recall any type of incident like a shooting previously in the area, describing the neighbourhood as a place out of the 1950s. However, Sherry also said she isn't that surprised to see a shooting so close to home.

"It's everywhere, you're not immune," she said. Residents who spoke to The NOW said they felt the neighbourhood was generally safe. It's feeling echoed by Port Moody police, despite a third deadly shooting in as many months.

"Unfortunately there is a lot of stuff going on in the Lower Mainland, no community is immune to this stuff," said Port Moody police spokesperson Const. Luke Van Winkel.

"Port Moody is a safe town, the citizens here are safe."On June 25, gangster Randy Naicker was gunned down on busy Queens Street during rush hour.Naicker was the founder of the Independent Soldiers and had a criminal past. In May, another gangster, Gurbinder Singh Toor, was gunned down in the parking lot of the Port Moody Recreation Complex just after sundown.

The victim was exiting his car to play ball hockey when he was shot. Both of those murders remain unsolved.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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A 32-year-old man well known to police has died after a shooting at a home in the Glenayre neighbourhood of Port Moody Saturday morning.
 

A 32-year-old man well known to police has died after a shooting at a home in the Glenayre neighbourhood of Port Moody Saturday morning.

Photograph by: Jeremy Deutsch , NOW

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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