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Another bystander shooting :( Five-year-old girl shot by stray bullet The Canadian Press May 22, 2009 A five-year-old girl, tucked inside the safety of her apartment, was felled last night by a stray bullet fired from outside in a west-end neighbourhood plagued by gun violence. Toronto...

There is at least one shooting a day in Vancouver but this shooting stands out and worth posting... Shooting victim may be innocent bystander The Canadian Press May 18, 2009 METRO VANCOUVER - One of the two men shot in a Surrey night club may have been an innocent bystander who had the bad...

Everyday someone get shot in Canada, this time 6 person got shot... Six shot at Toronto house party The Canadian Press May 10, 2009 TORONTO — Six people were shot at a house party in west-end Toronto early Sunday and police said they're seeking multiple suspects. Police were called to the...

Aryan Guard, anti-racism demonstrators clash in Calgary The Canadian Press March 22, 2009 White supremacists clashed with anti-racism activists in a violent fracas in downtown Calgary Saturday afternoon. Bottles, rocks and signs were thrown by both sides and at least two people received...

Man shot dead in park The Canadian Press March 19, 2009 A man was found shot dead Thursday morning in a park bordering the Vancouver suburbs of Surrey and Langley. Police have not released the victim's name but said he was a 33-year-old from Langley. The body was found sprawled under a...

Gun violence this weekend: three shootings in two days The Canadian Press March 15, 2009 METRO VANCOUVER - An early morning shooting in Burnaby that sent a 29-year-old man to hospital was the latest in a string of three incidents that kept police busy all weekend. Burnaby police are looking...

Metro Vancouver faced violent weekend The Canadian Press March 15, 2009 VANCOUVER — Murder and mayhem rocked Metro Vancouver over the weekend following two separate shootings and a string of other crimes. In less than 18 hours, there was one dead and one injured in the two shooting...

Woman gunned down in Langley The Canadian Press March 14, 2009 A 36-year-old woman was shot dead on the side of the road in a quiet Langley neighbourhood early Saturday morning. Police responded after residents told police they heard a number of shots and a vehicle driving away from the...

Two more dead after mid-morning south Vancouver shooting The Canadian Press March 10, 2009 Vancouver police are probing a double homicide after responding to an early morning call of shots fired near Knight Street and East 41st Avenue. Police spokesman Const. Lindsey Houghton said police...

Man shot on Kingsway The Canadian Press March 9, 2009 Vancouver police confirm shots were fired in the 2500-block Kingsway Avenue at around 2:30 this morning. Const. Jana McGuinness says the victim is in his 30's, but no other information is available and she expects it could be several hours...

Bullets fly in Metro Vancouver for 5th straight day The Canadian Press March 8, 2008 VANCOUVER, B.C. — Shootings in Metro Vancouver used to occur almost daily - now they are happening daily. For the fifth straight day, shots rang out, this time in the suburban city Coquitlam, RCMP Cpl. Peter...

Fight escalates into gunfire in Metro Vancouver The Canadian Press March 7, 2009 Police in Coquitlam, B.C., were investigating Saturday after gunshots were fired in a residential neighbourhood Friday night. It appears two groups of men got into an argument in the 700 block of Farrow St. near...

Canada Most Dangerous Cities The Canadian Press March 5, 2009 A new MacLean’s Magazine study puts Metro Vancouver communities among the most dangerous in the country. Chilliwack, Prince George, Surrey, Vancouver and Victoria. MacLean’s Magazine Vancouver Bureau Chief Ken MacQueen says these...

Two men gunned down in Surrey The Canadian Press March 5, 2009 • One man shot in head, other in leg in gunplay next to a shopping mall • This was the sixth shooting in Greater Vancouver in the last 24 hours Two men were shot at a Surrey gas station next to a busy shopping mall at about 7...

Cops comb highrise apartment for clues to double shooting The Canadian Press March 5, 2009 Homicide investigators combed a 25th-floor apartment near Burnaby's Brentwood Mall yesterday trying to solve a double shooting that left one woman dead and a man in critical condition in hospital. The...

Man shot 3 days after house shot up The Canadian Press March 5, 2009 A Surrey man whose rental home was peppered with gunfire on the weekend was shot near the house three days later. The 22-year-old man was gunned down in the 13000-block 68A Avenue in Newton shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday...