Posted on 03/11/2009 6:58:38 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 11 (UPI) -- Two more people have been gunned down in the violence-wracked western Canadian city of Vancouver, raising the region's death toll to 20 this year, police said. City police were called to an apartment above retail stores in the city's east end Tuesday morning, where they found the two victims, The Province newspaper said.
The city has had a spate of gang- and drug-related shootings and attacks this year but Constable Lindsey Houghton said it was too early to tell if the double killing was part of the turf war.
He said officers had been to the apartment in the two-story building before but didn't elaborate.
Abdelatif Mansouri, who lives next door to the crime scene, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. his neighbors were a male and female in their 20s who moved in several months ago and kept to themselves. Since Jan. 1, there have been 33 shootings in and around Vancouver, which with a population of about 580,000, is Canada's third-largest city, the municipal Web site said.
“the violence-wracked western Canadian city of Vancouver”
What? When did this happen? Vancouver used to be a great place.
Nah, couldn’t me a drug deal gone bad. /s
It’s Barack Obamas Fault
Oh goodie! We’re driving up to Vancouver in early May for a Celtic Thunder concert, and we’re not familiar with the city, having only been there once. Hopefully, since the concert arena is on the campus of UBC, we won’t be near the “fun” stuff.
Supply & demand, Cocaine prices have skyrocketed in Vancouver do to the drug war in Mexico.
Cocaine went from $25,000-$30,000 a kilogram up to $50,000 a kilogram
They can't see the forest for the trees. How about stop smoking dope and there will be no problem, DOH!
Drugs and gangs? Well then obviously the guns were responsible for the shootings. The drugs and gangs undoubtedly just an unhappy coincidence.
Clearly they don’t have midnight basketball!
It would only cost 2 billion and things would get worse
That’s progress—I bet that 50 years ago there weren’t 33 murders a year in all of Canada.
Must be all those guns coming from the US!!!
Vancouver is still a great place, unless you are involved in drug trafficking. The gangs they are talking about are not ethnic gangs.
Most of the damage is done by (or against) Hell's Angels in a turf war over who gets control over drug distribution. There was a nasty war in Quebec, but that stopped after Hell's Angels killed nearly a dozen members of the rival gang on the same day, kind of like the final scene in The Godfather 1. No charges were ever filed.
Now, THAT'S a real Canadian name if ever there was.
Liberals are so stupid it’s painful.
Actually, I’ve read that the further west you get in Canada, the less attention is paid to enforcing the gun laws. Western Canada is looking very attractive to me and my family right now.
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