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Shooting linked to gangs Simone Blais sblais@thenownews.com Police believe gangs are behind the shooting death of a 27-year-old man in Coquitlam Wednesday night. Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) Cpl. Dale Carr said officers have no suspects in Wednesday’s late-night shooting that killed one man in the Superstore parking lot, located off Lougheed Highway between Westwood Street and Christmas Way. “We’re confident it was a targeted attack,” Carr said. “We’re now conducting a thorough search of the area for video.” Shots rang out around 9:45 p.m., alerting witnesses to the area. Sitting in a black Mercedes in the store parking lot, the victim had been hit with several bullets. Several people called 911 immediately, drawing a quick response from Coquitlam RCMP members and B.C. Ambulance. “Paramedics were able to stabilize him enough and transported him to hospital; however, he died a short time later,” Carr said. The identity of the victim has not be released, pending notification of next of kin. IHIT investigators were called in shortly after, and combed through the area most of the night and into Thursday. Given the proximity to the late-night grocery store, investigators are hoping people in the area can offer clues as to suspect descriptions. “There could be a great deal more witnesses, and we’re hoping more will come forward,” Carr said. “We’re still trying to put the pieces together for this.”
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SCARY STUFF: Aspiring makeup artist Meghan Kilner transforms fellow Coquitlam resident Laura Lee-Harrison into a zombie at Coquitlam Centre mall. New Image College of Fine Arts is showcasing what the school has to offer aspiring actors, makeup artists and prosthetics artists during the event, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Councillors knew of contaminant ‘We never kept it a secret,’ Port Coquitlam Coun. Darrell Penner says Jennifer McFee jmcfee@thenownews.com A massive storage cell is being built to house a contaminant near the Coast Meridian Overpass, and two Port Coquitlam councillors say the remediation work is no secret. Yet despite frequent project updates on the progress of the overpass, which opened last March, information about the contaminant wasn’t widely publicized until The NOW reported on it Wednesday. City staff refer to a material found on the site as “carbon cruciate” or “carbon crucible” material, which they say consists of “fractured graphite crucibles with carbon and metal residues, used as a
mould during the furnacing process in the production of tungsten carbide alloys.” While city staff say this material is left over from Kennametal Inc., a metal manufacturer located on the site from the 1960s to the 1990s, the Pennsylvania-based company said earlier this week it had never heard of such a substance. In 2002, Kennametal sold the land to The Beedie Group, which subsequently sold a 2.4-hectare (sixacre) section to the city to build the overpass. As part of the deal, Beedie agreed to remediate the area and meet Ministry of Environment requirements. The company is now lining and capping the top of a 207-metre (679-foot) lock-block container, large enough to store 30,000 cubic metres (one million cubic feet) of the substance.
Coun. Michael Wright said council knew about the contamination all along. “The contamination of the site certainly came before council from Day 1,” said Wright, who was acting mayor this week while Greg Moore attended the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference. “We knew the site was contaminated and that it was going to be, I’m pretty sure, Beedie’s responsibility to do the remediation on that site.” Yet Wright said he’s not sure if the matter came up during the public consultation process. “We had so many meetings, I just cannot remember the details of every meeting … We all knew. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, see ‘IT’S NOTHING.’
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