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LUKA GORDIC
Teens facing murder charge Manslaughter charge has been upgraded Jeremy Deutsch
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Two teens accused of killing a 19-year-old Burnaby man last spring have had their charges upgraded to a more serious offence. On Thursday, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced the two men involved in the death of Luka Gordic are now facing second-degree murder charges. The two men – 18-year-old Arvin Golic and another teen who can’t be named because he was 17 at the time – were originally charged with manslaughter in the case. In all, four people have been charged for their alleged connections to the stabbing death of Gordic in Whistler during the May long weekend. Two other youths have also been charged with manslaughter. According to investigators, Gordic’s death was the result of an altercation between two groups of young people that escalated into violence. It appears someone came forward with information that helped upgrade the charge, based on the IHIT press release. “On behalf of the IHIT investigators who worked tirelessly on this investigation, I would like to thank the public who came forward with information crucial to moving this matter forward,” said Continued on page 8
WASHED OUT Local resident John Clarke stands downhill from the spot where rain washed out a section of roadside covering the Kinder Morgan pipeline. The orange crane, in the background, is holding the pipeline in place while crews stabilize the slope. PHOTO JENNIFER MOREAU
Rain leaves pipeline hanging Kinder Morgan pipeline left in the lurch after rain washes out Gaglardi roadside Jennifer Moreau
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Work crews were busy securing a roadside slope on Gaglardi Way after heavy rain washed out a section along Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, leaving it exposed. The line runs refined oil from the Burnaby Mountain tank farm to the nearby Suncor terminal, and Kinder Morgan sent crews to expose the pipeline even further to keep an eye on it while city-hired contractors rebuilt the slope. At one point, the line remained
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exposed and suspended in place by an overhead crane, which caught the attention of local resident John Clarke. “I am concerned that a high pressure pipeline could be exposed for that distance and supported by a single crane, and they could continue to pump product through it,” Clarke told the NOW, while visiting the site. The washed-out section was close to a site where city-hired contractors are relining a culvert that runs Stoney Creek beneath Gaglardi Way, according to James
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Lota, an assistant engineering diline. rector with the City of Burnaby. “You want to ensure it’s stable “There was some concern and there’s nothing coming close about the slope, so as a cautionary to it and the integrity of the pipemeasure Kinder Morline remains intact,” gan went out there Hounsell said. That’s what to secure the pipeBurnaby’s conline,” Lota said. tractors have stabihappens Crews removed lized the slope, and when you do the pipeline will be more of the surrounding dirt to construction in reburied, Lota said, keep an eye on the there weren’t rainy Vancouver and pipeline while the any concerns from slope was stabilized, the city’s standaccording to Lota. point. Kinder Mor“That’s what gan spokesperson Ali happens when you Hounsell said the company wantdo construction in rainy Vancoued to see exactly what was going ver,” he said. on with that section of the pipeContinued on page 8
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