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Police are seeking the public’s assistance in tracking down the individual(s) responsible for the death OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK of Rossland resident 2104 COLUMBIA AVENUE, Thomas Feeney. ROSSLAND ✩ 250-362-2280 Preliminary findings from an ongoing investigation leads investigators to believe that this is a “random incident” or a “crime of opporCheck out tunity” against the our new 75-year-old man who was recently killed Summer at his residence on Menu! Feeney Road. Supt. Ocean Wise Tim Head, district seafood, operations officer for organic, the Southeast Disfree range, and trict RCMP ‘E’ Divigluten free sion confirmed this options! at a press conference Monday. Your Horoscope For the Week “While will not with Michael O’ConnorI inside Horoscope the West Kootenay Advertiser be providing specifics For the Week with respect to what with Michael O’Connor we know to date about inside the West Kootenay Advertiser
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Thomas Feeney, 75, killed at his home on Feeney Road.
Police hold press conference in relation to Rossland homicide. Rossland area shaken from violent and disturbing homicide. Monika Smutny Photo
the homicide, I can say that this appears to be a break-and-enter type incident that ended in a violent and disturbing homicide,” said Head, who expressed his condolences to family members, son Tom Feeney, and sonin-law Colin Lohrer
who sat in the crowd of about 30 people. Lohrer expressed the family’s devastation in a statement to the press, pleading the public to come forward with any details that could pertain to the tragedy. “We are all in shock
to know he has been taken from us in such a tragic way,” he paused. “It has been a devastating blow to our family.” The late Feeney was born and raised in Rossland. He was a father, grandfather and great grandfather
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Above: Thomas Feeney, 75.
who loved to hunt and fish and enjoy the outdoors. His family immigrated from Ireland and made Rossland and its surrounding area their home for generations, according to Peter Corrado, nephew of the deceased.
“He was an Irishman in a very social sense so people would stop by and visit and he welcomed them in and unfortunately it seems that someone who came took advantage of him and killed him,”
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