REAL SCOOP: IHIT on the scene of Burnaby murder Sunday
Credit to Author: Kim Bolan| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:54:46 +0000
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called to a fatal shooting in Burnaby Sunday evening.
Burnaby RCMP was called about 6:30 p.m. to a Chevron gas station at Willingdon Avenue and Canada Way after a man in his 20s had been shot.
The man was rushed to hospital in serious condition but later succumbed to his injuries.
No name has been released. And no one has been arrested.
It was a violent weekend on the Lower Mainland.
Vancouver Police are investigating two murders – a fatal shooting of a man discovered in an underground parking lot Saturday night about 8:30 and the slaying of a woman in her suite in Gastown.
So far in 2020, there have been three murders in Vancouver and another three in IHIT’s jurisdiction.
51-year-old Joseph Vincent Morrissey of Vancouver was found dead on the street in Burnaby on Jan. 13.
Joseph Vincent Morrissey, a 51-year-old Vancouver resident, was found dead on the street in the 6700-block of 4th Street in Burnaby on Jan. 13 at about 7:20 a.m. No one has been arrested.
And IHIT announced that there was a suspicious death in Maple Ridge on Jan. 12 when a body was found in the 24500-block of Lougheed Hwy. No name has been released or anyone arrested in that death either.
One man was charged after the Jan. 2 murder of Jason Stanley Wells, 39, in the parking lot of a strip mall at 75A Avenue and Scott Road in Surrey.
Michael James Petronio, 33, faces one count of second-degee murder.
Police said earlier that Wells died after an altercation between the two men.