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SFU student shot to death at Central City

Maple Batalia, 19, gunned down Wednesday morning by Kevin Diakiw A YOUNG actress and model from

Maple Batalia, a student at SFU Surrey, was also an actress and a top-12 finalist in Central City Shopping Centre’s 2011 Model Search, the finale of which is scheduled for this Saturday (Oct. 1).

Surrey was shot dead on the third floor of a parkade at Central City near the Simon Fraser University campus early Wednesday morning. SFU student Maple Batalia, 19, was studying late with friends at SFU Surrey and left for her car after midnight. At about 1:10 a.m., police responded to several 911 calls of “multiple shots fired” in the parkade. Mounties arrived to find a young

woman “suffering from what can only be described as significant and multiple gunshot wounds,” said RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen, spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). Two uniformed officers did everything they could to save her. She was transferred to hospital where she died. “Clearly, based on the evidence at the scene, this was an obvious homicide,” Thiessen said, adding there are 20 to 25 police officers now working on the case.

Police would not identify the victim, but the father of Batalia confirmed that it was her. Batalia was a top-12 finalist in Central City Shopping Centre’s 2011 Model Search, the finale of which is scheduled for this Saturday (Oct. 1). She also had a role in the movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. By Wednesday afternoon, friends were posting condolences on social media sites. See POLICE / Page 3

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