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**teergoBissono** · 02-07-2009, 11:42 AM

Three killed in separate Vancouver-area shootings

The Canadian Press
February 4, 2009

METRO VANCOUVER — A man gunned down in the parking lot of a busy Lower Mainland shopping mall — one of three shootings in the Vancouver area on Tuesday — was the same person who rented the Surrey, B.C., penthouse where six people were brutally shot to death in October 2007.

The 21-year-old Baldini was sprayed with gunfire in the parking lot of the Guildford Mall at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday. He was transported to hospital where he was declared dead just as his family was gathering.

Another man was found shot to death in Coquitlam hours after Baldini's slaying. And just 24 hours before, James Ward Erickson was killed in another shooting Monday night in the rough Whalley neighbourhood in Surrey.

Cpl. Dale Carr, a spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, was just leaving the site of the Surrey murder Tuesday when he got called out to Coquitlam, where a woman's body was found slumped over in a car on a residential street.

IHIT investigates all murders in the Metro Vancouver area except for those in the city of Vancouver.

Metro Vancouver has had a rash of shootings over the last two weeks, as well as nine homicides so far in the past two weeks. Many of the shootings have occurred in public places like the Surrey mall parking lot. Shots were also fired at a busy intersection in Abbotsford two weeks ago but the victim escaped unharmed.

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teergoBissono Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	Three killed in separate Vancouver-area shootings The Canadian Press February 4, 2009 METRO VANCOUVER — A man gunned down in the parking lot of a busy Lower Mainland shopping mall — one of three shootings in the Vancouver area on Tuesday — was the same person who rented the Surrey, B.C., penthouse where six people were brutally shot to death in October 2007. The 21-year-old Baldini was sprayed with gunfire in the parking lot of the Guildford Mall at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday. He was transported to hospital where he was declared dead just as his family was gathering. Another man was found shot to death in Coquitlam hours after Baldini's slaying. And just 24 hours before, James Ward Erickson was killed in another shooting Monday night in the rough Whalley neighbourhood in Surrey. Cpl. Dale Carr, a spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, was just leaving the site of the Surrey murder Tuesday when he got called out to Coquitlam, where a woman's body was found slumped over in a car on a residential street. IHIT investigates all murders in the Metro Vancouver area except for those in the city of Vancouver. Metro Vancouver has had a rash of shootings over the last two weeks, as well as nine homicides so far in the past two weeks. Many of the shootings have occurred in public places like the Surrey mall parking lot. Shots were also fired at a busy intersection in Abbotsford two weeks ago but the victim escaped unharmed.
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