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Cops cleared in man’s death Cornelia Naylor
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HOMICIDE: Supt. Chuck McDonald, operations manager for the Burnaby RCMP detachment, and Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokesperson Cpl. Meghan Foster speak at a press conference in Central Park about the killing of 13-year-old Marrisa Shen Wednesday. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
Burnaby RCMP call for vigilance Killing of 13-year-old Marrisa Shen is being described as a random attack Cornelia Naylor
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Homicide investigators are looking for anyone who took videos or photos in and around Burnaby’s Central Park on the night 13-yearold Marrisa Shen was killed. “There’s no need for you to screen the video looking for anything,” Supt. Chuck McDonald, operations manager at the Burnaby RCMP detachment, said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
“If you have video from that night, whether it was dash-cam or personal video or you were taking selfies, if you can get that video or stills to us, we can add that to our database.That’s real important.” Shen, who would have started Grade 9 at Moscrop Secondary in the fall, was reported missing at about 11:30 p.m. on July 18. Her body was found in the brush in the southeast section of Central Park at about 1:10 a.m. on July 19. Shen was last seen leaving her
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home near the park at 6:02 p.m. A short security video clip released by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) last week shows Shen apparently entering an apartment building near the crime scene on the day of her disappearance.The video shows her wearing a dark-coloured T-shirt, shorts and runners. Police say those appeared to be the clothes she was found with. Investigators believe the teen was killed in a random attack, IHIT
confirmed Wednesday, but few details were released about the circumstances of her death – including how police determined her killing was random, whether or not she had been sexually assaulted, who she texted during her last contact by phone at 5 p.m. on July 18, whether police believe she was killed in the park or her body was brought there after or whether they believe Shen’s killer was a stranger to her. Continued on page 5
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B.C.’s police watchdog will not launch a full investigation into the death of a man on Burnaby Mountain earlier this month. The Independent Investigations Office (IIO), which investigates officer-related incidents of death or serious harm, found there was no connection between police actions or inactions and the death of the man on July 12. According to an RCMP statement, Coquitlam RCMP were called shortly before 1 a.m. that day by someone reporting that a man had left his home and intended to harm himself. At 2:30 p.m., after hours of searching, police said they located the man they believed they had been called about. He was carrying a gun, according to police. “Police engaged the man verbally, at which point the man shot himself,” read the RCMP statement. On Tuesday, the IIO announced a preliminary investigation had found no connection between police action or inaction and the man’s death, and that the watchdog would not investigate further. “Our investigation led us to believe that the actions of the officer was not the cause of the male’s death,” IIO media spokesperson MartenYoussef told the NOW.
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