ICYMI: Retired city employee faces murder charges in slayings of 4 people in B.C.
Dan McLaughlin of the B.C. prosecution service said Tuesday that three counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder have been laid against John Brittain, 68.
RCMP Supt. Ted De Jager said two men and two women in their 60s and 70s were killed, but police are not releasing any further information about the victims. De Jager said a man was killed on Heales. A man and a woman were found in one home on Cornwall and a woman was found in the neighbouring residence.
Thuy Do, who lives a few doors down from the homes where the shootings took place, said she and her mother stayed home all day out of fear.Sigrid Boersma said she has lived in the "very nice neighbourhood" for about 16 years and described the shootings as unbelievable.
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