Two people are dead and six wounded after a multiple shooting in east Vancouver that police believe is likely a targeted hit, Vancouver police say.Local cops aren't that surprised...
Police started receiving 911 calls just after 4:20 a.m. after two masked men walked into the Fortune Happiness restaurant, a late-night Chinese restaurant at 654 Broadway East near Fraser Street, and opened fire.
Late-night Vancouver restaurants and clubs and the streets around them have been deadly in recent years with incidents police often link to gang violence.**********
A patron at the Kwong Chow Congee and Noodle House in east Vancouver was shot dead last year when he confronted a gun-toting robber around 1:30 a.m.
In November 2005, as many as six men stormed into a suburban Burnaby nightclub, pulled handguns and wounded two young men in what police believe was an attack related to Indo-Canadian gangs.
A month before, two suspected Indo-Canadian gangsters were shot and wounded at a Vietnamese noodle restaurant in east Vancouver.
And in 2004, an Indo-Canadian man was killed execution-style in a 5 a.m. shooting at an east Vancouver restaurant.
A January 2004 dispute in a nightclub that erupted onto the street led to the shooting death of one man and a young woman who tried to intervene. Four other people were wounded.
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For mysterious reasons apparently unknown to the crack minds in the Ontario Attorney-General's office, criminals don't register guns, nor will they hand them over if they're "banned."**********
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One man is in critical condition and four people are in custody after an early Thursday morning stabbing on Queen Street West.
The victim was stabbed multiple times in the chest area, Toronto police Det. Gord Scott said.
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