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BRIGHT LIGHTS: The lights switched on Saturday at the Burnaby Village Museum for the Bright in Burnaby event, which raised money for the Burnaby Christmas Bureau. The event included live performances, gallons of hot chocolate and the displays of lights that people can come and see most days until Jan. 4. See more photos on page 12. PHOTOS JENNIFER GAUTHIER
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But investigators aren’t saying if the driver of the vehicle that crashed on the Barnet was the person charged Cayley Dobie
cdobie@burnabynow.com
A second-degree murder charge has been laid against the man police believe killed a Burnaby woman last month. Burnaby resident Nicole
Hasselmann, 34, was found badly injured and lying next to a vehicle that had crashed in the 8000-block of Barnet Highway on Nov. 16. She and the driver of the vehicle were taken to hospital, where she later died of her injuries.
The driver survived his injuries. Initially, investigators thought her injuries had been caused by the crash, but they later determined it was foul play. Officers with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team were called
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in to take over the investigation. Friday, police announced they had arrested Jan Poepl, 31. Poepl has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with Hasselmann’s death, according to a press release from IHIT.
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Police have confirmed that the accused and Hasselmann knew each other but wouldn’t say how they were acquainted Hasselmann, who also went by Nicole Porciello, worked as an education assistant at Templeton Sec-
ondary School in Vancouver. Police have not said whether the accused is the same person who was driving the vehicle the night of Nov. 16. Poepl is a resident of the Lower Mainland, but police would not say of
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