A armed man killed two people and injured two other people in a series of shootings near Vancouver in the early days of Monday, before being shot dead by the police, the authorities said.The previous report had suggested the attacker might target the homeless people, but this was not immediately confirmed by the authorities in Langley, a city of 130,000 people around one southeast of Vancouver.
“I can confirm that four people were shot by what was believed to be an armed man,” Police Chief Langley Ghalib Bhayani told a press conference. Two victims died, while the third – a woman – remained in a critical condition, and the fourth person was shot in the leg.Bhayani said the authorities were still working to identify the victims and suspects, and to determine whether there was a relationship between them.
“At the moment we determine the exact nature of who these people are and we cannot confirm that they actually lost their homes,” said the murder investigator David Lee about the victims.Some Langley Tweet residents of the emergency warning image they received from the police around 6:15 am local time (1315 GMT) confirmed “some shooting scenes” in the city center area.
The next warning tells the residents that the suspect is no longer a threat, but urges them to stay away from the area.Violent crimes related to firearms contributed less than three percent of all crimes of violence in Canada-but since 2009 the level of weapons per capita was fired with the intention to kill or injured it has increased five times.
Following a wave of mass shooting in the neighboring United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the freezing proposed on the ownership of the gun which will effectively prohibit their imports and sales.Canada forbade 1,500 types of military -style or assault firearms in May 2020, a few days after the worst mass shooting in the country killed 23 people in the rural Nova Scotia.
