Father of one of Surrey Six victims identified as target in Abbotsford hit
By Rafe Arnott, The Times September 16, 2010
An Abbotsford Police detective examines the scene of the City’s fourth homicide of 2010. A man was found shot to death about 6:30 a.m. Thursday in the 3000 block of Charles Court.
Photograph by: Rafe Arnott, Abbotsford Times
UPDATE: The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has confirmed the identity of the Abbotsford man gunned down Thursday as the father of one of the victims in the Surrey Six murders in 2007.
The deceased has been identified as 49-year-old Thavone Narong, who was the father of Eddie Narong, one of the six victims in the Oct. 19, 2007 slayings in Surrey.
Investigators are attempting to track down all associates of Narong and police say that there is nothing to suggest that this homicide has any links to the Surrey Six investigation other than the fact that the two victims are related.
Police say Narong was known to police.
Narong was found shot dead Thursday in what police are calling a targeted hit.
Police Const. Casey Vinet said officers found the victim slumped in a gold Toyota Camry that had driven into a parked red Mustang in the 3000-block of Charles Court Thursday morning.
Officers went to the scene after receiving several 911 calls around 6:30 a.m. involving reports of shots fired and a car crash.
It is the city’s fourth homicide of 2010. Refusing to elaborate on any gang or drug connections in the killing, Vinet would only say that the victim was “very well known to police,” and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team would be taking over immediately.
“We do believe the victim in this case was involved in a criminal lifestyle,” he said. Vinet confirmed police had made visits to a Charles Court home twice in the past two weeks.
Detectives canvassed the area for witnesses Thursday morning and Vinet said they had spoken with several people who claimed to have heard the shots and called police.
Neighbours on adjacent Conrad Avenue described hearing between three and five shots fired in rapid succession.
“The dog went crazy,” said a woman who did not want her name used, adding she heard four or five shots “all in a row, very close together.”
Another woman also described hearing rapid-fire shots. “Continuously,” she said.
“No pause . . . very loud and scary. Bang, bang, bang.”
A Charles Court witness claimed to have seen a gunman flee on foot.
“About 6:30 this morning, I heard two shots and then I witnessed two shots into the victim – the murderer ran away . . . the guy ran away.”
The shooter is thought to have jumped a fence, and cut through a yard fronting Princess Street.
Vinet would not comment on whether police had any suspects at this time, whether they were looking for a male, or if there was more than one shooter.
Orange evidence markers littered the scene as crash reconstruction experts examined the area. Vinet said investigators were trying to piece together the sequence of events around the homicide.
A female resident of the area for six years said children had stopped playing in Charles Court over the summer because of “unrecognized cars” frequenting the area.
“When I told [my kids] around 6:30 this morning there was a shooting noise, they said ‘mom, we are not surprised,’ but I was surprised,” she said. With years of gang-related homicides in the area, and the dubious title of ‘Murder Capital of Canada’ on its shoulders, one woman said she wasn’t surprised by the killing a few hundred feet from her front door.
“Not in Abbotsford. Not anymore.”
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Abbotsford Police Department at 604-859-5225, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
The deceased has been identified as 49-year-old Thavone Narong, who was the father of Eddie Narong, one of the six victims in the Oct. 19, 2007 slayings in Surrey.
Investigators are attempting to track down all associates of Narong and police say that there is nothing to suggest that this homicide has any links to the Surrey Six investigation other than the fact that the two victims are related.
Police say Narong was known to police.
Narong was found shot dead Thursday in what police are calling a targeted hit.
Police Const. Casey Vinet said officers found the victim slumped in a gold Toyota Camry that had driven into a parked red Mustang in the 3000-block of Charles Court Thursday morning.
Officers went to the scene after receiving several 911 calls around 6:30 a.m. involving reports of shots fired and a car crash.
It is the city’s fourth homicide of 2010. Refusing to elaborate on any gang or drug connections in the killing, Vinet would only say that the victim was “very well known to police,” and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team would be taking over immediately.
“We do believe the victim in this case was involved in a criminal lifestyle,” he said. Vinet confirmed police had made visits to a Charles Court home twice in the past two weeks.
Detectives canvassed the area for witnesses Thursday morning and Vinet said they had spoken with several people who claimed to have heard the shots and called police.
Neighbours on adjacent Conrad Avenue described hearing between three and five shots fired in rapid succession.
“The dog went crazy,” said a woman who did not want her name used, adding she heard four or five shots “all in a row, very close together.”
Another woman also described hearing rapid-fire shots. “Continuously,” she said.
“No pause . . . very loud and scary. Bang, bang, bang.”
A Charles Court witness claimed to have seen a gunman flee on foot.
“About 6:30 this morning, I heard two shots and then I witnessed two shots into the victim – the murderer ran away . . . the guy ran away.”
The shooter is thought to have jumped a fence, and cut through a yard fronting Princess Street.
Vinet would not comment on whether police had any suspects at this time, whether they were looking for a male, or if there was more than one shooter.
Orange evidence markers littered the scene as crash reconstruction experts examined the area. Vinet said investigators were trying to piece together the sequence of events around the homicide.
A female resident of the area for six years said children had stopped playing in Charles Court over the summer because of “unrecognized cars” frequenting the area.
“When I told [my kids] around 6:30 this morning there was a shooting noise, they said ‘mom, we are not surprised,’ but I was surprised,” she said. With years of gang-related homicides in the area, and the dubious title of ‘Murder Capital of Canada’ on its shoulders, one woman said she wasn’t surprised by the killing a few hundred feet from her front door.
“Not in Abbotsford. Not anymore.”
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Abbotsford Police Department at 604-859-5225, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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