Update: July 18, 2015
Thanks to the quick thinking of Citizens’ Crime Watch volunteers, one man is in custody following Vancouver’s 8th homicide in 2015 which occurred in Andy Livingstone Park last night.
Shortly before 10 p.m. on July 17th, witnesses called 9-1-1 after they found a deceased man in Andy Livingstone Park near Expo Boulevard and Carrall Street.
Minutes later, the Vancouver Police Department’s volunteer Citizens’ Crime Watch, who were working to prevent crime in the area, spotted a suspicious man running from the area of the park. They notified their police coordinator who detained the suspect.
Police determined that the deceased man in the park was the victim of a homicide.
Homicide investigators and the VPD Forensic Identification Unit were called to the scene where they spent the remainder of the night and into today.
The victim has been identified as a 44-year-old man who had recently arrived in Vancouver. His name is not being released until the notification of his family has been completed.
The suspect, a 26-year-old Vancouver man, remains in custody and has been charged with second degree murder.
“If it wasn’t for the dedication and quick thinking of the volunteers in the VPD’s Citizens’ Crime Watch, we would not have been able to take this dangerous offender off the street so quickly,” says VPD spokesperson, Sergeant Randy Fincham.
For more information on the VPD’s Citizens’ Crime Watch Program, and the work they are doing in your community, please visit their website.
