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Sunday, October 21, 2007
SURREY, British Columbia — At least six people were found dead in an apartment in this Vancouver suburb, and police said Saturday that the victims appear to have been targeted.
Cpl. Dale Carr, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police homicide investigator, told a news conference outside the building that the six victims were all males, but he had no further details about their ages. He said police were still trying to identify the victims.
The bodies were discovered Friday by firefighters and hazardous materials workers responding to a reported gas leak, Carr said.
"Upon arrival of fire and ambulance, it was quickly determined that they were not dealing with a gas leak but rather a homicide scene," he said.
Police said they have not ruled out a case of homicide-suicide.
Police were interviewing residents of the building to determine whether they may have smelled decomposing bodies in the 15th floor apartment and mistakenly thought it was a gas leak, Carr said.
Carr described a grisly "very complex" crime scene with bodies found in various rooms of the apartment. He said they appeared to have been targeted.
The building which has about 100 apartments was evacuated but residents were allowed to return late Friday night, except for residents of the 15th floor near the crime scene.
Carr said it is too early in the investigation to be certain but at this stage it does not appear that the apartment was being used for growing marijuana as had been suggested by neighbors.
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British Columbia Police Investigate Slaying of Six
Updated: October 22nd, 2007
AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward
Investigators stand outside the scene of a multiple homicide in Surrey, B.C., Oct. 21.
SURREY, B.C.-- British Columbia police have been unable to identify all the male victims of a gruesome multiple murder and have cancelled a news conference scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Earlier in the day RCMP Cpl. Dale Carr told CTV's Canada AM that police would be revealing the names and some background about the six males found dead in a Surrey apartment on Friday.
The RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team changed that plan later in the day.
"IHIT will not being holding a news briefing as originally thought as investigators have not been able to confirm the identity of the male victims," stated an RCMP news release.
"It would be highly inappropriate for police to release any names without being 100 per cent satisfied that the person is who we may think it is."
The release went on to state that police would not be speaking to media Monday, as there was nothing new to report.
Earlier in the day, Carr said police were in the process of wrapping up their investigation of the crime scene.
The coroner has now removed the bodies from the apartment, and Carr said the location would soon be released so that residents of the building could return to their homes.
He wouldn't confirm a CTV News report that one of the six slain men was Ed Schellenberg, a gas maintenance worker.
Schellenberg's family members believe he was an innocent bystander.
Carr said police believe the murders were not random, and there is no risk to area residents. However, he offered no details about whether those killed were targeted or were possibly entangled in a murder-suicide.
"We're pretty confident that this is self-contained. We're in a position to say that we feel it's not a random act," Carr said.
"It has a lot of earmarks of something that's not random. I can't get into specifics, obviously, but the city of Surrey and the RCMP in the city of Surrey, have done remarkable work to keep this community safe, and I still think it's a safe place to be."
The bodies were found on Friday in various rooms of the 15th-storey apartment in the suburb of Vancouver.
Carr said the number of victims adds to the complexity of the investigation, but police are making progress.
Police are working on a number of theories about what took place in the apartment.
"It's a little early to get into exactly whether it was gang-related, organized crime. As investigators we have a number of theories that we have up on the board, and in the next few days we will be able to eliminate some of those and be more definitive," Carr said.
There is no word on when police intend to confirm how the six people were killed.
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