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Man fires gun inside apartment Vikki HOPES Abbotsford News
When police were able to get into the suite where a 23-year-old distraught man believed to be on drugs had barricaded himself after firing shots on Tuesday, they found several guns, as well as bullet holes in the walls and ceiling. Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said one of the rounds had gone into a neighbouring suite that was occupied by two women. Despite the recipe for tragedy, nobody was injured in the incident. “It’s remarkable,” MacDonald said after the man’s arrest. Police were called to the apartment suite in the 33200 block of Bourquin Crescent East just after 11:30 a.m. MacDonald said two family members who were in the suite with the man reported that Continued on A3
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Six fatalities in Abbotsford and Mission accidents Vikki HOPES Abbotsford News
Families and friends are mourning the loss of six individuals who perished in a series of tragedies in Abbotsford and Mission over the weekend. Four of the losses were due to vehicle crashes, including two on Saturday on Highway 1 in Abbotsford. The first took place around noon, when a truck rolled over just east of the Sumas exit
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in the eastbound lanes. Cpl. Robert McDonald of RCMP Traffic Services said a commercial cube-style truck was travelling in the slow lane and then moved into the fast lane to allow oncoming traffic to merge. The driver then noticed that a 1997 GMC Yukon was swerving and then flipped onto its roof. The 44-year-old Maple Ridge woman driving the Yukon was airlifted to hospital, where she died from her injuries the following day.
Her two passengers were taken to hospital and released. The second fatality occurred just before 6 p.m. the same day on Highway 1, when a motorcyclist went off the road near Clearbrook Road. The 55-year-old rider was travelling west on a 2014 Harley-Davidson when he apparently experienced a medical emergency. He went through the median and down a grassy
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