Double Homicide in Marlborough

[jar_e]

I know stories like this sound like a broken record but I figured since some people use CP as a news sources...

http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/citybeat/public/2008/10/release.20081026_073914_7973_0

At 0352 hours Sunday October 26 police responded to the 4100
block of Marlborough Drive N.E. on a complaint that a
shooting had occurred in a restaurant at that location.

On arrival officers discovered one female and one male, both
in their early twenties, deceased inside the restaurant.

[jar_e]

ANyone have the calgary urders per years stats, including this year, curious how much it has increased.

Here's the only thing I could find in my quick google search...no idea when the article was written to reflect this years numbers..


http://www.citytv.com/calgary/yourcity_60218.aspx

Calgary Homicides
2003 -10
2004 -16
2005 - 24
2006 -26
2007 - 30
2008 - 21 to date

[jayswin]

Here's the only thing I could find in my quick google search...no idea when the article was written to reflect this years numbers..


http://www.citytv.com/calgary/yourcity_60218.aspx


I believe we were at 29, so this should be 31.

[jar_e]

And furthermore...from the Herald on October 24....

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=c19e5693-d029-4a4b-be8a-ecde408e44f8

This, according to a new Statistics Canada report that found Calgary's homicide rate in 2007 to be its highest in 15 years and nearly 70 per cent greater than the national rate.
...
Calgary is defined in the report as the city proper and its surrounding communities. Its homicide rate last year was 3.14 victims per 100,000 people.
...
Homicides by Major Metropolitan Areas
City population victims rate
Saskatoon 250,269 9 3.60
Winnipeg 732,048 26 3.55
Edmonton 1,095,968 36 3.28
Calgary 1,145,924 36 3.14
Trois-Rivieres 146,740 4 2.73
Regina 203,453 5 2.46
Greater Sudbury 162,438 4 2.46
Vancouver 2,286,517 55 2.41
Toronto 5,510,424 111 2.01
Saint John 101,426 2 1.97
Source: Statistics Canada

[MelBridgeman]

oh noes calgary is growing up!~

[Flames_Gimp]

hmm wonder which restaurant this was at

[jar_e]

hmm wonder which restaurant this was at

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/10/26/foodineast-marlborough-shooting.html

Police were called to the Food in East restaurant in the 4100 block of Marlborough Drive N.E. just before 4 a.m.

[HelloHockeyFans]

And furthermore...from the Herald on October 24....

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=c19e5693-d029-4a4b-be8a-ecde408e44f8

This, according to a new Statistics Canada report that found Calgary's homicide rate in 2007 to be its highest in 15 years and nearly 70 per cent greater than the national rate.
...
Calgary is defined in the report as the city proper and its surrounding communities. Its homicide rate last year was 3.14 victims per 100,000 people.
...
Homicides by Major Metropolitan Areas
City population victims rate
Saskatoon 250,269 9 3.60
Winnipeg 732,048 26 3.55
Edmonton 1,095,968 36 3.28
Calgary 1,145,924 36 3.14
Trois-Rivieres 146,740 4 2.73
Regina 203,453 5 2.46
Greater Sudbury 162,438 4 2.46
Vancouver 2,286,517 55 2.41
Toronto 5,510,424 111 2.01
Saint John 101,426 2 1.97
Source: Statistics Canada



It's a pretty bad sign when there's a better chance of getting murdered in Calgary than Vancouver.

[henriksedin33]

http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/homicide2008/

[Resolute 14]

It's a pretty bad sign when there's a better chance of getting murdered in Calgary than Vancouver.

Just stay out of the Northeast, and you'll be fine...

[HelloHockeyFans]

Just stay out of the Northeast, and you'll be fine...

Not what this map seems to indicate...

http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/homicide2008/ (http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/homicide2008/)

[jayswin]

Not what this map seems to indicate...

http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/homicide2008/ (http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/homicide2008/)


I think he was being sarcastic, as these threads have historically gotten nasty as soon as someone singles out a single part of Calgary as being worse than others.

[jayswin]

BTW Keep in mind our murder total is helped along this year by one person who murdered his family and a tenant for 4 homicides.

[HelloHockeyFans]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081026.wcarhomicide1006/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail

On Sunday, police issued a murder warrant for the arrest of a Toronto man in the fatal shooting of Bailey Zaveda, 23.

Ms. Zavedra happened to be standing outside the Duke of York tavern on Queen Street East early Saturday when a man fighting with another man opened fire.

She was killed and two other women and two men were hurt and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot injuries, police said.

I really don't care if the gangsters keep clipping each other in turf wars or ego battles... absolutely brutal when innocent people get caught in the cross-fire though.

[getbak]

http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/homicide2008/
Wow. The one in Braeside was just down the street from the house I grew up in.

[browna]

How many of these have been at "restaruants" in the middle of the night? Every so often it pops up about an incident at a late night restaraunt, and most of them are asian places.

Maybe if these places closed, there wouldn't be that central congreation spot at 3:52am where some gang member can either hang out and/or be in an easy place to be found by some other gang member.

Just an assumption, but that has all the tell tales signs of a gang shooting. Would it have happened, if not last night, then next weekend is up for debate, but I'm guessing that wouldn't happen at 3:52pm on a Saturday.

[burn_baby_burn]

Its not only Calgary but major cities in Western Canada with higher than average homicide rates. According to Hellohockeyfans post, the top 4 and 6 of the top 10 are in Western Canada.

[Ironhorse]

How many of these have been at "restaruants" in the middle of the night? Every so often it pops up about an incident at a late night restaraunt, and most of them are asian places.

Maybe if these places closed, there wouldn't be that central congreation spot at 3:52am where some gang member can either hang out and/or be in an easy place to be found by some other gang member.I would think it is safe to say that the shooting victims were not there for some Dim Sum.

[GirlySports]

I would think it is safe to say that the shooting victims were not there for some Dim Sum.


Booooooooo.

I was at Food and East last weekend for lunch... kinda scary now :(

[Traditional_Ale]

Booooooooo.


??? I thought it was actually quite good. ?

I simply can't wait for more cops. I never ever thought I would say this but we really need them. We're gang-infested because its easy to operate in Calgary.

[Robbob]

What we need is some tougher legislation to help the cops. Right now the cops have to spend way to much in terms of money and time for a typical gang arrest. The cops need some new tools to work with because the current system doesn't work. Even with more cops on the street I don't think it will stop these gang shootings. I think its time to think outside the box.

[Nancy]

I think he was being sarcastic, as these threads have historically gotten nasty as soon as someone singles out a single part of Calgary as being worse than others.

Looking at that map, seems like the Deep South is pretty crime free... mind you, by the time someone takes the long drive down Deerfoot to the boonies to exact their vengeance, they'd have spent all their bullets shooting at people driving slowly in the fast lane.

[jayswin]

Looking at that map, seems like the Deep South is pretty crime free... mind you, by the time someone takes the long drive down Deerfoot to the boonies to exact their vengeance, they'd have spent all their bullets shooting at people driving slowly in the fast lane.


:#1: haha.


...and to be fair, I don't think anyone should feel offended or the need to try and prove anything, or call me ignorant if I feel a hell of a lot safer in the deep south (ie Canyon Meadows, lake bonavista, sundance, midnapore etc) then a lot of the NE/SE communities (ie Marlbourough, forest lawn, applewood, dover, erin woods etc) Nothing anyone says is going to change my mind that there is a distinct difference in my feelings of safety between the two groups of communities I mentioned. To put it bluntly, I feel completely safe walking around a community like Lake Bonavista at 2am alone, where as I would never even think about doing the same in let's say, Dover.