Tracking down the Vancouver restaurant shooters
The hunt is on for the restaurant assassins in Vancouver. I'm not holding out much hope that the killers will be found.
The shooting in Vancouver's Fortune Happiness Restaurant continues to dominate the news:
Vancouver police launched a massive hunt Thursday for two masked gunmen who strolled into a Chinese restaurant at about 4:30 a.m. and opened fire, killing two of eight people at one table and wounding six others in what police described as possibly the worst shooting in city history.
“This is one of the most heinous [shootings] we have ever come across,” Deputy Police Chief Bob Rich told a packed news conference, hours after the gunfire at the Fortune Happiness Restaurant, located within two kilometres of the site of the future athlete's village for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Police refused to comment on the kind of weapons used, whether the victims were armed, or how the assailants entered. They spoke at length about the need to deal with gang violence in the city, but declined to explicitly link the crime to gangs.
But that this was a targeted gang hit seems likely.
Will the massive hunt succeed? Depends. If the hitmen have already been put on a boat back to Hong Kong, then probably not. Another possibility is that the police will find them...dead.
The restaurant had surveillence cameras, so the killers might now be a liability.
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Keystone Kops Get a Klue!!
Well maybe ..... I think you're right about the slim chances of that bunch solving this murder. I hope the do solve it ... but hold no faith that they will.
Posted by: OMMAG at August 10, 2007 01:44 PM
The RCMP was always viewed with great respect in the States. I sense ongoing negative connotations associated with their efforts these days. I hope it's spin by the liberal press and not the reality.
Posted by: iowavette at August 10, 2007 02:21 PM
Iowavette..i think the police in charge here are Vancouver city police..the RCMP is the national police force, but i don't know if they have been called in on this crime..i am sure they are aware of it though..
Posted by: Kursk at August 10, 2007 03:42 PM
vancouver has plenty of homegrown gangsters and criminals on its own... there's no need for locals to outsource this type of work to contract workers from hong kong. Most of this kind of stuff is perpetrated by ppl who have a direct stake in the dispute, so I'm sure the killers are around somewhere and laying low for the time being. They'll eventually be taken care of - that's the nature of the business they are in. The only problem is that innocent people might get hurt in the process.
... Oh, and I hope the guns that the shooters used were properly registered with the appropriate authorities. How foolish to risk criminal charges for first degree murder AND possession of an unregistered firearm!
Posted by: rtm at August 10, 2007 06:46 PM
Comments in Thursday's (9 August) Vancouver Province reported upon in Friday's (10 August 2007, p. A6)National Post, in "Detective critical of B.C. judges' leniency," by Andy Ivens, could apply to the Constable Plunkett case in Toronto. Give Vancouver Detective Doug Spencer credit for being brave enough to speak out.
Lance M. Jefferson
Richmond, British Columbia
Posted by: Lance M. Jefferson at August 10, 2007 08:10 PM
I don't know if it's me and my circle of friends, but you ask any of them and they'll tell you the rcmp are a waste of skin. I'm leaning that way my self. Worst part of that comment is my friends are quite varied in ideology. Not all of them are conservative!
Posted by: Dave at August 10, 2007 08:16 PM
The real story here is not the gun stuff. It's the organized crime that seem to flourish here in Canada. Seems like the government policies of the last many years are starting to really bear fruit.
Posted by: LAW at August 10, 2007 08:52 PM
Tong War going on in Chinese Vancouver ???
Chop chop !!!!!
Posted by: Wing Ding at August 10, 2007 09:07 PM
"The real story here is not the gun stuff. It's the organized crime that seem to flourish here in Canada. Seems like the government policies of the last many years are starting to really bear fruit."
Posted by: LAW at August 10, 2007 08:52 PM
organized crime seems to flourish everywhere... the hell's angels certainly didn't originate in Canada although they seem to do very well here. Problem is that the police have no power to effectively enforce our laws, and our lawmakers (mainly the Liberal-controlled Senate) seem unwilling to empower them to do so. We also have a judiciary that refuses to believe in the either crime or punishment (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070718/n071842A.html)
I personally know a lot of people who probably belong in jail, but for some reason or another none of them have ever been convicted or done serious time. The Vancouver Police Dept. have a Gang Squad that seems to know everything local criminals do, but in the end all they do is follow these people around and harass them without actually stopping any organized crime or sending anyone to jail.
It's almost as if these criminals are allowed to remain free as long as they keep informing the police about what everyone else is doing. It's a stupid, dysfunctional system created by senseless legislators, enforced by powerless police, and adjudicated by leftards.
Posted by: rtm at August 10, 2007 09:48 PM
You notice this douche-bag Stephen "The Wanke" Janke never gets moist when white people commit murder. Hey, Wanke? Did you "blog" about the recent murder spree in Calgary?
...Go back to blogging about Cindy Sheehan's vagina.
Posted by: Angry on a Great White Toilet at August 11, 2007 06:27 AM
 
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