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Stabbing victim was known to Dolman
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Prostitute was a passenger in car during attack BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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wice a day Alayna Weiss walks the half-kilometre stretch between her home and school, and increasingly the 14-year-old doesn’t feel safe. I met Alayna at Chilliwack middle school one day last week and together we walked to her childhood home at Williams and Gore. As we walked, the Grade 8 honour student told me students at her school, and Chilliwack secondary across the street, are increasingly worried
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“The things I have seen are unimaginable, and mostly involves youth. I have watched first hand my friends getting jumped, robbed, or addicted to drugs that no child should have access to, but that’s the reality of Chilliwack and it’s disgusting.”
MEAN STREETS FEELING UNSAFE TO TEEN in the neighbourhood, some have even been robbed of their backpacks. Along the way we pass a Canada Post box with graffiti that says: “Heroin what?” At Maple and Williams she points to the Chilliwack Evangelical Mission Church where she says suspicious people often loiter. At the same corner is the street sign where she saw a used needle a week prior. And the empty lot one house
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fter the Save-On-Foods parking lot downtown was cleaned up, the investigation into the stabbing death on May 3 moved to the home of the man now charged with second degree murder. Gerald Leslie Dolman was arrested by police at the scene of the incident, and the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) said soon after that, the charge was approved by Crown counsel. By Thursday, officers were on the scene at Dolman’s trailer in the Mt. Cheam Mobile Home Park in Popkum just east of Rosedale. And while few more details have been released about the alleged murder, the Times has learned there was a woman in the car with the victim at the time of the incident. Police said it was believed the victim and Dolman knew each other, and according to multiple sources including friends of the victim, the woman was that link. In an interview May 4 with individuals who knew the victim well, and who spoke on condition of anonymity, they allege the woman worked as a prostitute and had spent considerable time with Dolman, draining his { See STABBING, page A3 }
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