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our A A A 1 If RED DEER ADVOCATE, Monday, December 27, 1993 A5 Canada Violence Woman found frozen claims 5 VANCOUVER (CP) A string of violence left five dead in British Columbia during the holidays, including one man shot by police and a good Samaritan. Russell Thomas Michele, 31, of Lillooet was fatally shot by RCMP when he got out of his truck armed with a rifle following a police chase. The Christmas Eve shooting occurred after officers at Lillooet, 180 km northeast of Vancouver, tried to stop Michele after receiving a complaint. Three officers pursued Michele along a forestry road. A car carrying two Mounties went 1 into a ditch 67 km into the chase.

About 500 metres further along, the other car bumped Michele's truck causing it to go into a ditch. Police said Michele got out of the vehicle and walked toward the lone officer with a high-powered rifle. The officer tried to take evasive action, then killed Michele with a single bullet. The bodies of two women discovered Thursday in an east end co-op apartment were identified on Christmas Day as Catherine Campbell, 37, and Barbara Collins, 59. The women had lived together for five years.

Also on Christmas, the partly clad body of a woman police identified as Kathleen O'Sullivan, 79, was discovered dumped in a central Vancouver laneway. An autopsy was conducted Sunday to determine how O'Sullivan died but police would not release details on any of the women's deaths. "There's always a chance, but we haven't even considered it," Det. Grant MacDonald said in an interview when asked if police thought the killings were linked. The fourth murder occured early on Christmas Day.

Police were called to a disturbance on a downtown street shortly before 3 a.m. to find a man had been knifed after apparently trying to thwart two men smashing car windows and slashing tires. Police said the vandals turned on Michael Magill, 34, of Vancouver. He died one hour after being taken to hospital. Police are searching for two Caucasians in their mid-20s.

Unofficially, the 1993 murder toll in Vancouver stands at 26. Sex charge decision angers Inuit POVUNGNITUK, Que. (CP) A judge's decision to drop most charges against a local man accused of sexually abusing children has angered Inuit leaders in this northern village. Quebec Court Judge Jean Dutil recently ruled that only one of the five children whom the man was accused of molesting was able to provide satisfactory testimony in court. The children are aged between five and seven years.

"They clammed up," said Harry Tulugak, former co-ordinator of a program against sexual abuse set up last spring after 100 village children were found to have been molested. "This is just another great example for us of how your southern legal system works for us. The one remaining charge sexual contact with a child under 14 is to be heard by a jury. Tulugak said parents felt upset because the man and two others one faces a preliminary hearing next March and the other now has drawn a one-year term were not jailed. An angry Tulugak said that the parents "didn't want to see these people to walk free." The children's reluctance to testify in court may have been due partly to their lack of familiarity with mainstream white culture, said Claude Doire, a lawyer who acted for them.

"I don't think it's ever easy, even for adults, to testify in cases like this, but in this case there may have been cultural factors that made it even more difficult." Doire, appointed by the court, noted that with the exception of one Inuktitut -language interpreter, the judge, lawyers and other officials were white. Defence lawyer Claude Beaudet insisted the judge was right to drop the charges. "I think this whole investigation has been very badly handled by the police." After revelations of sexual abuse surfaced early this year in Povungnituk, "people became ready to interpret just about anything a child said as evidence of child abuse." Firefighter hailed as hero WINNIPEG (CP) A Winnipeg firefighter gave Gil and Wilma Gauthier a head. "We were lucky," said Gil. "Another 10 or 15 minutes and it would have been WINNIPEG (CP) A 28-year-old said Moar was found in front of the woman was found dead Christmas house where she lived with her sister.

morning after she apparently froze to She was dressed in a winter jacket. death outside her Winnipeg home. The temperature in Winnipeg on Police said Rhonda Evelyn Moar Christmas Day was the colddied from hypothermia after being ex- est temperature of the 1993 winter seaposed to extreme cold for an unknown son, said Environment Canada amount of time on Christmas Day. spokesman Sylvaine Juneau. The woman was discovered at 11:55 Police do not suspect foul play, but a.m.

Saturday. Insp. Don MacDiarmid will be conducting an autopsy. Christmas present they won't soon forget gone. The fire was dripping down on the rousing the sleeping couple as fire spread through the attic of their new home.

Don Smith, an 18-year veteran of the Winnipeg Fire Department, was driving into the city for his shift Saturday and spotted flames leaping from the Gauthier's roof. The Gauthiers had been sound asleep after staying up late Christmas Eve and were unaware the fire was spreading over- carpet already." Their two smoke detectors were not activated, probably because the fire was contained in the attic, they said. Smith then helped the Gauthiers contain the blaze with a garden hose before the fire crews arrived a few minutes later. Although the fire caused an estimated $100,000 damage, it did not spread through the top floor of the home. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

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