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NOVEMBER 7, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 133
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WEEKEND OF WEAPONS IN KAMLOOPS MOUNTIES DEAL WITH TWO SHOTS-FIRED INCIDENTS AS GUNPLAY IN CITY CONTINUES
CHRISTOPHER FOULDS
KTW EDITOR
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ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW LEFT: Kamloops Mounties are investigating after a 24-year-old man suffered minor injuries in a shooting in a unit in an apartment building at 805 Holt St. on Saturday. RIGHT: Michael Boyer was arrested Monday following an incident Saturday night at the Tournament Inn in Valleyview. An officer was injured during an altercation.
It is believed he was apprehended at 217 Nelson Ave., the North Shore house at which two men were shot on Oct. 23. Mounties were at the address Monday with guns drawn. Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said the situation in Valleyview escalated when a Kamloops Mountie outside the Tournament Inn, which
is at 1893 East TransCanada Hwy., noticed a group of people in the parking lot acting suspicious. Shelkie said he approached to investigate, which led to an attempt to detain a man. “The suspect allegedly became violent and a struggle ensued,” Shelkie said. She said an investi-
gation has determined the suspect produced a handgun, pointed it at the officer and made threats to shoot the officer. The officer then fired his pistol at the suspect. Shelkie said that while shots were fired, the officer was not injured by gunfire. He was injured during the altercation and treated and released from
Royal Inland Hospital. In the summer of 2016, Boyer was involved in a gunfire incident outside the Landmark Place condos in Sahali, at Summit Drive and McGill Road. On June 25, 2016, a fight between two men on the sidewalk outside the condos led to a gun being fired. A sevenhour standoff with police followed, with
Derek Muirhead, 20, eventually arrested and charged with numerous offences. In court, Judge Stella Frame referred to allegations of a midmorning gunfight on the streets of Kamloops, witnessed by five people. Court proceedings show Boyer told police Muirhead challenged him to a fight and
pulled out a handgun. During the struggle, Boyer said, the gun went off, but the bullet did not hit anybody. Boyer told police he took the gun from Muirhead, punched him in the face and threw the weapon in a nearby bush. Boyer was initially arrested. See SHOOTINGS, A2 D#30150
Kamloops Mounties were kept busy Saturday dealing with two incidents in which guns were fired, continuing a string of shootings in the city. And, in one of the weekend events, a Mountie fired his weapon at a suspect who allegedly brandished his own gun and threatened to shoot the officer. That altercation involving a handgun occurred at the Tournament Inn in Valleyview and sent a Kamloops Mountie to hospital while police continue to search for a suspect. An earlier incident Saturday involved a 24-year-old man being shot at a Brocklehurst apartment building and suffering minor injuries. A man and woman were arrested in connection with that call. In connection with the Valleyview incident, Michael Shawn Boyer, 41, was arrested Monday afternoon.
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