SURREY — Surrey RCMP are reviewing a local case involving the theft of a 9mm handgun in Surrey in 2006 after Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht revealed that the weapon was used in the murders of eight people in his city earlier this week.
“We’re looking at the file,†said Cpl. Bert Paquet, of the Surrey RCMP. “Whatever info we uncover we will share with them,†he said of Edmonton’s homicide investigators.
Paquet declined to make further comment.
The four women, two men and a boy and a girl were killed in what Edmonton Police believe was a murder-suicide in which the prime suspect — a man with a criminal record dating back to 1987 — is believed to have also killed himself, bring the death toll to nine.
Knecht told reporters the “planned, deliberate and targeted†killings don’t appear to have been gang-related but rather a case of domestic violence.
Knecht revealed at a press conference that the gun was legally registered in B.C. in 1997 and was stolen in Surrey in 2006.
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