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Langley’s Kayden Watson takes a tumble while mutton busting at the Langley Riders Society’s Little Britches Rodeo held on Sunday, June 24 in Brookswood.
A fatal shooting at a rural home on Glover Road on Saturday morning is now a double murder. One of the victims in the shooting was rushed to hospital in critical condition but passed away on Sunday, confirmed Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. IHIT has identified the two victims. The man found dead at the scene has been identified as 27-yearold Gordon Spencer. The man who later died in hospital has been identified as Bruce Mayo, 25. Neither of the deceased was a resident of the farm house, located in the 6400 block of Glover Road. Already a web page has started for Spencer to help raise funds for the young children he leaves behind. According to the website, he also leaves behind a fiance. Langley RCMP have been to that house before, said IHIT Sgt. Jennifer Pound. Five people were arrested at the scene, four men and one woman, believed to be between the ages of
17 to 22 years old. They have been interviewed and released without charges. Around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, Langley RCMP responded to a 911 call about a domestic dispute at the Milner home. When they arrived, five people were standing outside the home and the inside was heavily doused with bear spray, said Pound. Two men were inside the home, one had already died from gunshot wounds and the other was critically injured, she said. Pound said she didn’t know why the home had been bear sprayed. IHIT investigators were on the scene on Saturday morning, interviewing neighbours and gathering evidence from the home. A motive isn’t known at this time. According to court documents, a Bruce Mayo does have a criminal past. In 2008, he was charged with robbery and 2009 he was charged with dangerous driving. A Gordon Spencer has had minor brushes with the law but not in recent years, according to court documents.
Driver blew three times limit in middle of day Police officer reported smelling alcohol through closed car windows He must have been very, very drunk. The man behind the wheel of a vehicle which other motorists noticed was being driven erratically had a “distant, vacant” stare when a police officer banged on the window of his car. Even with the windows closed, the officer noticed the smell of alcohol coming from the man’s vehicle which the officer had noted was lurching as the driver put his foot
on and off the brakes. “The officer yelled and banged on the window in an attempt to get the attention of the driver,” said Cpl. Holly Marks, Langley RCMP spokesperson. “However, when the driver looked at the officer, he appeared to have a distant, vacant stare and did not acknowledge the officer’s presence.” Running around the vehicle, the officer tried all four doors, but found they were all locked. Marks said that the vehicle was on Glover Road, near 64 Avenue at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19. Alerted by dispatch, a Langley RCMP traffic officer spotted the vehicle going south on Glover. The vehicle
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was slightly off the road in a construction zone, and was lurching forward. The officer ran to the vehicle fearing that the driver might be in medical distress, Marks said. When the driver appeared to be trying to move back into traffic, there was great concern because construction workers, flaggers and bystanders were in the area, she said. The officer broke the rear window on the driver’s side, reached in and unlocked the door so that he could turn off the ignition. Police launched an impaired driving investigation, and took a 62-year-old Surrey man back to the Langley detachment where his breathalyzer reading registered three times the legal limit.
Police plan to recommend charges to Crown counsel, Marks said. Shortly after 3 p.m. the next day, Langley Traffic Services came across another impaired driver who blew over the legal limit. “While all impaired driving is cause for grave concern, in both these instances the drivers were impaired in the early afternoon,” Marks said. She urged people to “please drive carefully, always (be) cognizant of your fellow motorists.” Police are requesting the Langley community to continue their vigilance against impaired driving by calling police if they see a driver they believe is impaired.
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