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CRIME SCENE: Police on the scene of a shooting in the 3900 block of Forest Street on Monday night. A 29-year-old Coquitlam man was gunned down and later died in hospital after an altercation with somebody driving a dark-coloured sedan. Police are now attempting to determine what led them to the residential Burnaby neighbourhood. PHOTO RYAN STELTING
Police piece together scene of fatal shooting By Jeremy Deutsch
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Burnaby has recorded its second homicide of the year. Police were called out to the 3900 block of Forest Street at sundown Monday evening after shots rang out on the residential
street. A man was found shot, and after being helped by bystanders in the area, he was taken to hospital where he died an hour later at 10:30 p.m. On Tuesday, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) identified the man as Christopher
Alexander Serrano, 29, of Coquitlam. IHIT said he also used the last name of Hurtado. Investigators are now trying to figure out a motive for the shooting and what led the man with a criminal past to the area of Burnaby. IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Jenni-
fer Pound said investigators know that a dark-coloured sedan was in the area when there was an altercation with the victim. She said the suspect vehicle fled, but not before colliding with a parked vehicle. “At this point we’re trying to determine what the connection to
that location is,” Pound told the NOW. “It was just an area where it looks like he met up with somebody in that dark-coloured sedan and an altercation ensued and he ended up succumbing to gunshot wounds.” Continued on page 5
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City MLA shares sexual assault story
Kathy Corrigan delivers tearful tale in legislature By Jennifer Moreau
jmoreau@burnabynow.com
Burnaby MLA Kathy Corrigan apologized for her tears when she stood up in the legislature on May 10 to
support a new bill calling on post-secondary institutions to have clear policies on handling sexual violence. “Sorry, I didn’t know this was going to bother me,” she said, voice wavering. “See, it stays with you for a
long time.” Corrigan was sharing a personal story from her late teens, when she was a student at UBC. It was a beautiful day, and she decided to take a walk by herself to Tower Beach.
“There was nobody else on the beach, and suddenly there was a half-naked man running towards me, masturbating and chasing me. I was 17 or 18; I’m not sure. I was absolutely terrified,” she said. Corrigan ran and found a couple who helped her, and
the man ran off. “I was not touched, but I was targeted, and I was a victim,” she said. “Every second of that incident stays in my mind today.There are those that experience far worse. I’m not trivializing any event of sexual violence, because you don’t know
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