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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2021 | Volume 34 No. 45
AFTER SERVICE Matt Marier on military missions and post-service life challenges Story, A13
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Police renew appeal for information on Shannon White Shannon White is 32 years old, stands 5-foot-5 and weighs 180 pounds. She has blond hair, green eyes and fair skin. White sometimes wears glasses, has a Medusa lip piercing and a tongue piercing and several large arm tattoos, including a portrait of her dog, Buddy.
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Kamloops Mounties say missing Kamloops woman Shannon White may have left the city between the time she drove from her home on Nov. 1 and her Jeep was found on a downtown street on Nov. 2. The information came in the RCMP’s latest appeal to the public for information on the whereabouts of the 32-year-old. White left her Bestwick Court home shortly after 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 1. She was expected to arrive at work by 8:30 a.m. at the Hyundai dealership on Notre Dame Drive — a twokilometre drive — but she never arrived. The next afternoon, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, White’s 1997 black TJ Jeep with BC licence plate KAO 22N was found parked in downtown Kamloops, in the 200-block of Nicola Street, outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. A flower normally attached to the spare tire at the rear of the Jeep was missing.
“Although Shannon’s Jeep was located in Kamloops, there is a chance she could have left the city before her vehicle was located on Nov. 2,” said Cpl. Dave Marshall of the Kamloops RCMP Serious Crimes Unit. “If you have seen someone you think may be Shannon, don’t dismiss it. Contact police as soon as possible.” White’s disappearance is extremely out of character for her, a fact noted by police, White’s friends and her landlords, who spoke to KTW last week about the disappearance. White rented a basement suite from Matt and Quinn Hatch on Bestwick Court
in Lower Sahali and was known for her daily routine. At about 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 1 — three hours after Shannon failed to show up for her job at Kamloops Hyundai at 940 Notre Dame Dr. in Southgate (a two-kilometre drive) — Matt said he began receiving concerned messages from White’s friends. On Nov. 2 — the day after she left for work — at about 3:30 p.m., police found White’s Jeep parked downtown, 1.3 kilometres from White’s home via Sahali Terrace and Columbia Street West and in the opposite direction of her workplace. See NOTHING, A6
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