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METRO VANCOUVER -- From a gangland execution in North Delta Jan.
2 to the slaying of a man in Maple Ridge on Dec. 19, the year
has been a busy one for Lower Mainland homicide investigators.

Sixty people were murdered or died under suspicious
circumstances in 2015 in the region stretching from Whistler to
Chilliwack, according to data compiled by The Vancouver Sun.

The violence started early in the year when gangster Arundeep
Cheema was gunned down in the driveway of an associate in North
Delta. Like many other gang cases, his murder remains unsolved.

“It remains an active investigation but there have been no
arrests at this time,” Delta Police Acting Sgt. Sarah Swallow
said Wednesday.

The region’s largest murder squad — the Integrated Homicide
Investigation Team — opened 39 files in 2015, with the number of
confirmed victims or suspicious deaths totalling 43.

IHIT’s Sgt. Stephanie Ashton said not all of the cases have been
made public.

“In some cases these files are not confirmed homicides or didn’t
require public notice,” she said.

Vancouver Police had 15 victims of homicide in 2015, the highest
number since 2011. There were just nine murders in the city in
2014, six in 2013 and eight in 2012, Const. Brian Montague said.

Charges have been recommended or laid in 10 of the 2015 deaths,
Montague said.

VPD’s unsolved cases from the year include the fatal stabbing of
Scott Singh, 24, and Tony Pelletier, 37, at the West Hotel on
March 14 and the gangland shooting of Duy Ly Nguyen on Sept. 27
in a crowded shopping plaza at Oak and King Edward.

Also unsolved to date are the back-to-back murders on July 26
and July 27 of 15-year-old Jason Nguyen and 20-year-old Samir
Mokhtar. Both were targeted.

IHIT investigations this year have already resulted in charges
being laid in 15 murders.

In other cases, like the tragic May 7 murders of Emily Janzen,
her mother Laurel and aunt Shelley, the suspect is dead. Her dad
Randy confessed on Facebook to the triple slaying and was later
found dead.

Other suspects were arrested but released, and haven’t yet been
charged.

Ashton thanked the public for aiding investigations by providing
critical information.

“As a result of the support we receive from the public, our
investigators are often able to move forward to reach charge
approval and that was the case in many of our files from 2015,”
Ashton said. “However it is also one of our biggest challenges.
Sometimes for any number of reasons people don’t want to talk
with the police. It is our goal to continue to foster positive
relationships with the public so that they can see the benefits
of supporting our investigations.”

In many of the region’s murders, police have possible motives
from day one.

But in other cases, they have appealed for people to come
forward if they have any knowledge about a murder.

Earlier this month, IHIT asked for witnesses in the targeted
Nov. 21 murder of Surinderpal Hehar, a community volunteer and
dad to young children. He was gunned down minutes after getting
picked up at his Surrey home for a night shift on the docks.

Ashton said that “a motive for this murder has not been
established,” even though it was targeted and Hehar, 47, was the
intended victim.

Murders in the region are investigated by different agencies,
depending on where they happen.

IHIT probes all cases in cities with RCMP detachments, as well
as those in New Westminster, Port Moody and Abbotsford, working
with their municipal forces.

Delta Police and Vancouver Police investigate murders within
their boundaries while the VPD helps West Vancouver Police with
its homicide files.

No murder was more shocking in 2015 than the fatal shooting of
Abbotsford senior Ping Shun Ao on a sunny summer evening Sept. 2.

The 74-year-old was in the side yard of his family’s Abbotsford
home on Promontory Court when he was struck by a bullet meant
for a neighbour caught in a local gang war.

No charges have yet been laid in the murder, which shook the
Fraser Valley community.

Land title records show Ao’s family sold their house just weeks
after the murder and moved away.

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Metro Vancouver homicides in 2015:

Jan. 2: Arundeep Cheema, North Delta (Delta PD)The 24-year-old
Surrey resident was shot while seated in his vehicle in the
driveway of a North Delta home he was visiting. Police said
Cheema was known to them and the attack was targeted.

Jan. 6: Jeffery Scott Nasa-Dyke, Vancouver (VPD)The 49-year-old
man’s body was discovered at an apartment near Triumph and
Nanaimo Street. A man living in the home was found by patrol
officers near Wall Street and Dundas. He was taken into custody
without incident. Kenneth Conrad Izzard, 29, was charged with
manslaughter. The accused and the victim were known to each
other and the homicide appeared to be drug related.

Jan. 12: Stuart David Ellis, Chilliwack (IHIT)Fraser Valley
Mounties were called to a car crash on Hazel Street and found
the 39-year-old lone occupant of the SUV had been murdered. The
Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said it was a targeted
attack.

Jan. 20: Damon William Campbell, Whistler (IHIT)The 45-year-old
Port Coquitlam resident was found unresponsive in a hallway of
the Aava Hotel in Whistler after an altercation. He died after
police arrived. IHIT is investigating his death, while the
Independent Investigations Office is looking into the actions of
an officer at the scene.

Feb. 11: Lorne Joseph Melting-Tallow, Vancouver (VPD)The 49-year-
old man was found bleeding and unresponsive about 4 a.m. on a
sidewalk in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He was the city’s
second homicide of the year.

Feb. 15: James Enright, Burnaby (IHIT)The 27-year-old North
Vancouver man was stabbed to death as he tried to help his
friend during a scuffle at the Edmonds SkyTrain station in
Burnaby. Police were called to the station at 12:47 a.m. in
response to a report of a fight. They found an injured man, who
was taken to hospital, but later died. Police said “this was a
situation where Mr. Enright was in the wrong place at the wrong
time, he died because he tried to help someone.” Jesse Evan Ali
Sellam, 22, was charged with second-degree murder and 18-year-
old Taitusi Funaki Vikilani faced charges of manslaughter and
assault causing bodily harm.

Feb. 19: Trevor Johnson, Abbotsford (IHIT)The 35-year-old man
was stabbed to death at a gas station in Abbotsford. The victim
was taken to hospital with critical injuries at about 10 p.m.
Police arrested 30-year-old Abbotsford resident Thavone Junior
Carlson, who faced a charge of second-degree murder in the
incident. The victim met the suspect at the gas station, a fight
broke out and Johnson was allegedly stabbed.

Feb. 23: Alexander Renney, Richmond (IHIT)The body of the 20-
year-old Surrey resident was found near a business in the 14000
block of River Road in Richmond. Police said the victim was
likely targeted.

Feb. 27: Michael Donald Amy, Surrey (IHIT)The body of the 34-
year-old Abbotsford man was found in an SUV in the 9500-block of
139th Street just before 10 a.m. Police didn’t believe the
incident was random. Police said 44-year-old Donald Lyle
Salahub, wanted Canada-wide for violating his parole when he
disappeared from a halfway house in February, was a person of
interest in Amy’s death.

March 1: Vladimir Shevalev, Vancouver (VPD)The 80-year-old man
was found dead in his Coal Harbour apartment. Police initially
believed the death was a result of natural causes, but later
determined it was a homicide. The victim’s son, 19-year-old
Alexander Konstanovich Shevalev, was charged with manslaughter.

March 3: Crystal Rose Paul, Vancouver (VPD)The body of the 36-
year-old mother of five was found in the basement suite of a
home on East 22nd Avenue near Main Street. Her spouse, 42 year-
old Daniel Alphonse Paul, has been charged with second-degree
murder.

March 14: Scott Singh and Tony Pelletier, Vancouver (VPD)Singh,
24, and Pelletier, 37, were killed in a double stabbing at the
West Hotel in Vancouver. The younger man died at the scene and
the older man in hospital.

March 27: Salamawit Girma, Surrey (IHIT)The 25-year-old was
found dead after a stabbing in a home near 127th Street and 103
Avenue in Surrey.

March 29: Unidentified man, Burnaby (IHIT)The man was killed in
a stabbing in Burnaby and a suspect in the slaying died after
being shot by police. Mounties discovered the dead man in a home
in the 6100-block of 14th Avenue just before 6 a.m. They also
found two other men inside the home and attempted to arrest
them; one man was shot during that encounter.

April 3: Minh Thanh Doan, Vancouver (VPD)The 37-year-old man was
found suffering from serious head injuries in an east Vancouver
parking lot. He later died in hospital. A suspect has been
charged.

April 16: Elmer Libertino, Burnaby (IHIT)The fatally injured 33-
year-old man was found lying in the middle of the intersection
of Moscrop Street and Smith Avenue. Mounties came across the
body while on patrol in the area shortly before 3 a.m.

April 13: Elaine Leznoff and Kalvin Dosanjh-Leznoff, Richmond
(IHIT)The 66-year-old woman and her 13-year-old grandson died in
a fire in Richmond. Her son-in-law, and Kalvin’s dad, Surjit
Dosanjh, has been charged with second-degree murder. Dosanjh had
been estranged from his family and was not residing in the home
at the time of the fire.

April 17: Eleanor Anthonysz, Mission (IHIT)The 33-year-old died
in a fire in her mobile home in the 9200-block of Shook Road in
Mission. Two children were taken to hospital. Walter Ramsey, 42,
was charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of
attempted murder and one count of arson for allegedly setting
the trailer home on fire.

April 19: Arun Paul Singh Bains, Surrey (IHIT)The 22-year-old
was fatally shot before 3 a.m. near 88th Avenue and 126th Street
in a dispute linked to a violent clash between young drug
dealers and a series of earlier shootings. The young man was the
nephew of Surrey-Newton MLA Harry Bains.

May 2: Gang Yuan, West Vancouver (WVPD)The 42-year-old was
killed in a violent confrontation at a British Properties home
at 963 King George’s Way. Li Zhao, a West Vancouver man, was
charged with interfering with a body and second-degree murder.
The charge of interfering with a dead body is connected to
allegations Zhao cut up his victim after death.

May 7: Emily and Laurel Janzen, Langley, and Shelly Janzen,
Aldergrove (IHIT)Randy Janzen confessed on Facebook to killing
his 19-year-old daughter, Emily, his wife, Laurel, and his
sister, Shelly. He said he shot Emily in the head to relieve her
of her chronic, debilitating pain and depression. He claimed to
have shot his wife Laurel because “a mother should never have to
hear the news her baby has died”, and then he killed Emily’s
aunt to spare her the “shame” of his actions. Shelly, 53, was
found dead in her home in Langley. Randy Janzen later was found
dead.

May 10: Cady Quaw, Surrey (IHIT)The 23-year-old woman died in a domestic-related homicide in Surrey. Her husband, Gordon
Alexander David, also known as Alex David, 34, was charged with
manslaughter and aggravated assault in her death.

May 10: Guiseppe (Joe) Bengey Zecca, Abbotsford (IHIT)The 38-
year-old Abbotsford man was found lying in the middle of Lonzo
Road, west of Sumas Way. Andre Provencal, 23, was charged with
two counts of assault with a weapon, uttering threats and
possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Shiloh Davidson
was charged with second-degree murder.

May 17: Luka Gordic, Whistler (IHIT)Gordic died after an
altercation with other young men in Whistler. Arvin Golic, 18,
and a youth have now been charged with second-degree murder. A
second youth faces a manslaughter charge.

May 19: Redelma Belisario, Richmond (IHIT)The 62-year-old was
found deceased in a home and was believed to be the victim of
foul play. Her 38-year-old son Darwin Lescano was charged with
second-degree murder.

June 1: Wells Tony Gallagher, Langley (IHIT)The 37-year-old
homeless man was found lying on a sidewalk in critical condition
after a fight in the 20300-block of Fraser Highway. He later
died from his injuries. David Christopher Van Den Brink, of no
fixed address, was charged with second-degree murder.

June 3: Charan Dhandwar, New Westminster (IHIT)Charan Dhandwar,
79, was out for an evening walk in the 1500-block of Eighth
Avenue when she was attacked just before 7 p.m. She died at the
scene. Julien Cadrain Levasseur, 23, was charged with second-
degree murder.

June 5: Edwin Shek-Yin Cheng, Richmond (IHIT)The 42-year-old
Richmond man was found dead inside a vehicle after a shooting in
a Sikh temple parking lot in Richmond. Cheng was known to police.

July 14: Colin Hill, Surrey (IHIT)The 42-year-old husband and
father of two was shot dead as he was trying to stop a break-in
at his home in Cloverdale. 22-year-old Khouri Lamar Green faces
a second-degree murder charge. Police believe the homicide was
random in nature, and noted that Hill and the suspect were not
known to each other.

July 15: Hanif Jessa, Burnaby (IHIT)The longtime night
superintendent for street cleaning for the city of Vancouver was
shot outside his Burnaby home.

July 16: Iryna Gabalis and Israeli friend, Coquitlam
(IHIT)Gabalis, 56, and a man from Israel who had just arrived,
were found dead in a home in the Westwood Plateau neighbourhood
after reports of two fatalities. Gabalis’s former boyfriend Mo
Salehi, 44, was charged in the slayings.

July 17: Marcelino Perez-Rodriguez, Vancouver (VPD)The 44-year-
old man, who had recently arrived in Vancouver, was found dead
in Vancouver’s Andy Livingstone Park. Matthew Brenner, 26, of
Vancouver, was charged with murder.

July 26: Jason Nguyen, Vancouver (VPD)The 15-year-old Nguyen
died after police and paramedics were called to a home on East
24th Avenue near Rupert Street around 3 p.m. after a family
member found Nguyen seriously injured. The teenager was taken to
hospital but did not survive. The death was initially considered
suspicious, but later deemed a homicide, and did not appear to
be random, police said.

July 27: Samir Mokhtar, Vancouver (VPD)The 20-year-old died
about 9 p.m. on the side of the street on Seaforth Drive near
Rupert Street after being shot. Police said the victim was known
to police and was on bail at the time of his death on a charge
of manslaughter for a fatal shooting in Burnaby nearly one year
earlier. Mokhtar’s shooting was targeted, police said. It was
the city’s 10th homicide of the year.

Aug. 8: Dominic Boateng, Vancouver (VPD)The 47-year-old man died
after a stabbing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside just after 6
p.m. Police say the attack appears to have been targeted.
Charged with second-degree murder was Dennis Sleightholme, 34,
of Vancouver.

Aug. 11: Garth McDonald, Vancouver (VPD)McDonald, a 60-year-old
Vancouver resident, was killed by a punch to the head outside a
Robson Street bar. He refused hospital treatment for what
appeared to be a minor head injury after he was punched and
knocked to the ground during an fight outside Shenanigans
Nightclub on August 11. He was later found unresponsive on the
floor of his West End apartment, and died of a serious brain
bleed in hospital. The VPD recommended a manslaughter charge
against a 26-year-old Vancouver man.

Aug. 12: Igor Bradaric, Burnaby (IHIT)Burnaby police responding
to a call of shots fired found the 43-year-old man suffering
from gunshot wounds. He later died. Police said it appeared to
be a targeted attack.

Aug. 12: David Hennessey, Surrey (IHIT)The 27-year-old was found
by Surrey RCMP responding to a call about an altercation at a
home in the 13000-block of Hansen Road. He was suffering from
what appeared to be stab wounds and later died in hospital.
Another man found at scene was also treated for injuries at
hospital and later arrested for the alleged murder.

Aug. 31: David Urquhart, Mission (IHIT)The 35-year-old man last
seen in Maple Ridge in August was in October confirmed as the
victim of murder in Mission. A hunter had discovered some human
remains in the area of Norrish Creek Road, a remote logging road
north of Mission. Police are looking for information in their
investigation.

Sept. 2: Ping Shun Ao, Abbotsford (IHIT)The 74-year-old
bystander was killed in a drive-by shooting targeting a
neighbour’s home. He was standing behind a gate in his side yard
in the 3500-block of Promontory Court when shots rang out about
7:15 p.m. Several bullets also hit the targeted house next door,
which police had visited several times during a lengthy dispute.

Sept. 18: Matthew Charles Miles, Burnaby (IHIT)The Vancouver man
was found dead inside a house in the 3800-block of Frances
Street in Burnaby. Police tried to negotiate with Kenneth Robert
Hanna, 48, who was holed up in the house. He was fatally shot by
police. The Independent Investigations Office is investigating
Hanna’s death while the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team
is probing Miles’ murder.

Sept. 27: Duy Ly Nguyen, Vancouver (VPD)A brazen shooting at a
busy Vancouver shopping centre left the 30-year-old Ontario man
with gang links dead. Police said the shooting is believed to be
targeted and is likely the result of an ongoing gang conflict.
There have been no arrests.

Sept. 29: Peng Sun, North Vancouver (VPD)The body of the 22-year-
old Chinese national was found on a quiet North Vancouver street
in what police say was an abduction case. Tian Yi Zhang, 23, of
Richmond was charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping,
while three other men were also arrested. Casey James Hiscoe,
21, was charged with kidnapping, and Dyllan James Green, 20, and
Jacob Michael Gorelik, 18, were charged with interfering with a
body.

Nov. 6: Robert Boucher, Vancouver (VPD)The 31-year-old man died
after an incident behind the Ivanhoe Pub in Vancouver. Police
believe the man was involved in a dispute or altercation that
spilled into the street after starting at a nearby rooming
house. Sadie Taniskishayinew was charged with second-degree
murder. The homicide was the 14th of the year in Vancouver.

Nov. 21: Surinderpal Hehar, Surrey (IHIT)The 45-year-old
longshoreman was shot to death just after getting picked up to
go to work. The other man in the vehicle was also struck and
injured in the shooting. Police say sit was a targeted shooting
but they don’t know the motive.

Dec. 4: Cameron Leon, North Vancouver (IHIT)The body of the 22-
year-old was found in Mosquito Creek near Fell Avenue and 17th
Street in North Vancouver. There are no suspects.

Dec. 19: Peter Bender, Maple Ridge (IHIT) The 33-year-old Pitt
Meadows man was found in a car at a Maple Ridge church parking
lot. A team of police converged on the parking lot of the Haney
Presbyterian Church on 216th Street following the shooting.

IHIT’s 2015 cases also include four suspicious deaths of
children and two suspicious deaths of Surrey men.

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