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Narinder Nayar was 70 years old when he tried to save his co-worker Ravinder Bhangu from being killed by a man at a Surrey newspaper office where the pair worked. Despite Nayar’s brave actions, Bhangu was murdered by the attacker. EVAN SEAL / THE LEADER
Girl issues plea to find dad’s killer Chris Whitmee was shot in a Cloverdale club three years ago by Kevin Diakiw LISTING A host of reasons why she
Honoured for bravery C during fatal axe attack
Surrey senior rejects ‘hero’ label as death of co-worker still haunts him
misses her dad, 12-year-old Lexus Burkholder-Whitmee made a public plea Wednesday for information leading to the arrest of those who killed him. Christopher Whitmee was shot at about 11 p.m. May 16, 2009 in the washroom of the Legacy Showroom in the Clover Inn at 176 Street and 57 Avenue. He was an innocent bystander in what was believed to have been a gang hit. Whitmee’s daughter Lexus said Wednesday her dad won’t be there for her high school graduation, to teach her how to drive a car, or to help celebrate future birthdays. “I have to miss out on a lot of things most kids don’t even have to think about, because of someone else’s decision to go out with a gun that night,” she said. See LEXUS page 4
by Kevin Diakiw arrying an axe and knife out of view, the man walking into a Newton newspaper office last July looked like any other customer. Then, according to a witness at the Sach Di Awaaz Newspaper office at 128 Street and 82 Avenue, the man saw 24-year-old Ravinder Kaur Bhangu and began to strike her with the axe. She tried to block the descending blade with her arms and started to scream. Standing about three metres away, 70-year-old Narinder Nayar moved to stop the attacker. “I heard someone is crying (and) I rushed to that,” the volunteer photographer said in an interview with The Leader Tuesday, adding he yelled at the man: “What are you doing?” See NAYAR / Page 5
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Lexus Burkholder-Whitmee and her mother Heather Brecht.
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