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Gill and Van Dyke sentenced to federal prison AUTUMN MacDONALD Observer Reporter Clarence Gill and Bradley Van Dyke have been sentenced to federal prison time, following a guilty verdict back in March. Gill was sentenced to five years, minus two weeks, ordered to supply a DNA sample and prohibited from owning firearms for 10 years. Van Dyke was sentenced to three years and three months, ordered to supply a DNA sample and received a lifetime firearm
prohibition. A 12-member jury found Gill and Van Dyke guilty in March of this year after a two-week trial in Quesnel Supreme Court. Sentencing was handed down Oct. 9 by a judge in Vancouver Supreme Court. The two men were charged with break and enter to commit an indictable offence, assault, aggravated assault and using a firearm while committing or attempting to commit the indictable offence of assault. The incident stemmed from RCMP responding
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to a shooting in Bouchie Lake Sept. 5 2009. During court the victim, Jefferey Steinbrunner told jurors Gill smashed his face with an aluminum baseball bat and Brad Van Dyke shot him once in the stomach and once in the arm. Steinbrunner further testified he knew the two men prior to the incident, stating he worked for Gill tending to marijuana grow operations in 2007; he met Van Dyke through Gill. “I opened the door,
stuck my head out and that’s when I got a baseball bat across my mouth,” Steinbrunner testified. “I backed up and went to grab my bat behind my chair; that’s when I noticed it was gone.” Steinbrunner said he had not yet identified the men and thought the attack was a robbery. “I was looking for a weapon and I told them to come in.” It’s then Steinbrunner said he realized it was Gill and Van Dyke. “Clarence came at me
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“I got it in my head they were going to kill me, so I got up somehow and started towards the door. That’s when I heard Clarence yelling to Bradley to shoot me.” Jefferey Steinbrunner, victim
with a bat,” he said. “He told me to get on the bed and he started wailing on me.
“I got it in my head they were going to kill me, so I got up somehow and started towards the door. That’s when I heard Clarence yelling to Bradley to shoot me.” The gun, a .22 rifle, Steinbrunner said was his on loan from Joe Gill. Steinbrunner testified he managed to get out the door where he hid until he thought it was safe to go get help. He then made it to a neighbour’s house, who drove him to GR Baker where he was treated and interviewed by RCMP.
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