Thursday, December 18, 2025
ADVT 
National

B.C. Coroner Identifies 22-Year-Old Man As David James Of Lillooet In First Nations Office Attack

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 16 Oct, 2015 11:29 AM
    VICTORIA — A 22-year-old man has been identified as the person who died after 11 people were attacked with a weapon at the offices of a First Nation in British Columbia's Interior.
     
    The BC Coroners Service says David James of Lillooet  died at the Bridge River Indian Band offices on Wednesday morning.
     
    The band's chief has said James stormed in and went from office to office hitting people with a weapon.
     
     
    RCMP were called to the office of the band also known as Xwisten.
     
    The coroners service says James was unresponsive at the scene and could not be resuscitated, prompting investigations by police, the coroner and the Independent Investigations Office.
     
    The Interior Health authority has said two people were critically injured.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Ladysmith, B.C., Teenager Zachary Andrew Identified As Victim Of Fatal Crash In Nanaimo

    Ladysmith, B.C., Teenager Zachary Andrew Identified As Victim Of Fatal Crash In Nanaimo
    The BC Coroners Service confirms Zachary Andrew was killed when his northbound sports car was hit by an oncoming vehicle on the Nanaimo Parkway.

    Ladysmith, B.C., Teenager Zachary Andrew Identified As Victim Of Fatal Crash In Nanaimo

    Simon Fraser University Professors Receive Award For Pipeline Battle

    Simon Fraser University Professors Receive Award For Pipeline Battle
    The university has announced Stephen Collis and Lynne Quarmby are the 2015 recipients of SFU's Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy.

    Simon Fraser University Professors Receive Award For Pipeline Battle

    Slain Woman Found In San Francisco Park Identified As Quebec Tourist Audrey Carey

    Slain Woman Found In San Francisco Park Identified As Quebec Tourist Audrey Carey
    Audrey Carey's uncle had told her family she was embarking on an adventure and decided she would go to for the first time to the United States and then make her way to Europe.

    Slain Woman Found In San Francisco Park Identified As Quebec Tourist Audrey Carey

    Teen Found Guilty Of Pushing Fellow High School Student To Death Under Bus

    Teen Found Guilty Of Pushing Fellow High School Student To Death Under Bus
    The teen, who can't be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, shoved Christopher Chafe down an embankment outside Sydney Academy last winter.

    Teen Found Guilty Of Pushing Fellow High School Student To Death Under Bus

    Economic Downturn May Be To Blame For Cars Left Abandoned At Edmonton Airport

    Economic Downturn May Be To Blame For Cars Left Abandoned At Edmonton Airport
    People leave a lot of things behind at airports, but in Edmonton it seems that a record number of travellers are abandoning their vehicles.

    Economic Downturn May Be To Blame For Cars Left Abandoned At Edmonton Airport

    Parole At Least 22 Years Away For John Koopmans Convicted Of Murdering Couple

    Parole At Least 22 Years Away For John Koopmans Convicted Of Murdering Couple
    John Koopmans, who was convicted by a jury in April of two counts of second-degree murder and a single count of attempted murder, was sentenced Tuesday in Penticton, B.C.

    Parole At Least 22 Years Away For John Koopmans Convicted Of Murdering Couple