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TWO DEER (right) traded
wooded trails for asphalt and
concrete Friday afternoon when
they wandered into the centre
of North Vancouver City. A
North Vancouver RCMP con-
stable (below) stares down the
young animals, which were
eventually covfined to 2 perk-
ing lot at the back of an apart-
ment building at St. Georges
and East 12th.

CONSERVATION OFFICERS were called to a North
Vancouver apartment parking Jot Friday afternoon to
return to nature two deer which had wandered into the

centre of the city.

The deer drew a crowd of pur-
suers as they wandered down past
Lions Gate Hospital. The

animals were eventually contain-
ed in an underground parking lot

News Reporter

in a back lane near the corner of
St. Georges Avenue and East

PROVINCIAL CONSERVATION officers (above) load a sleepy buck into a station wagon after subduing it

with a tranquilizer. The animals were tater returned to the wilderness.

Two deer make a trip to the big city

12th Street.

Said Lions Gate Hospita! pa-
thology technician Jim Baigent,
who helped corner the wandering
deer: ‘‘We were outside on the
terrace deck having a cup of cof-
fee and spotted the animals on
the top level of the parking los.
We tried to contain them, but
they got spooked. They looked

like they were really hot and
scared.”’

The deer were tranquillized and
transported to the Aldergrove
area where they were released
unharmed.

Ministry of Environment con-
servation officer Ralph Krenz

NEWS photos Nell Lucente

said the two acer were males,
each about a year old.

Said Krenz: ‘*What happens is
that they get accustomed to
humans and development pe-
ripheral to the wilderness. They
probably got scared by a car or
something and jusi kept wander-

”

Man believed to be chased before death plunge

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP investigators believe two
men were chasing 28-year-old Ken John Alexander Miller
moments before he fell 23 feet from the walkway above the
Lonsdale Quay bus loop, sustaining injuries which lead to

his death five days later.

Police lost a prime witness when
the Port Coquitlam man failed to
regain consciousness after the May
27 fall. He died at Lions Gate
Hospital June 1.

Police believe Miller jumped
over a planter to escape his chasers
on the elevated walkway and
tumbled to the asphalt below at
approximately 2 a.m. Miller sus-
tained injuries to his head and

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

back.

According to investigating of-
ficer Cst. Lorne Schwartz, the
mishap was the deadly end to four
friends’ night out on the town.

Schwartz said the four had spent
the evening at Lonsdale Quay’s

Waterfront Bistro and Tugs Cafe
Pub. According to Schwartz, while
waiting outside of Tugs for two of
his pals still inside the pub, Miller
and another friend got into a ver-
bal altercation with somebody else.
“Eventually they said the wrong
things to the wrong people and
they were chased,’’ Schwartz said.

Several people chased after the
chase, which lasted approximately
100 metres, but no one police have
talked to saw Miller go over the
side of the walkway.

Said Schwartz: ‘‘They didn’t see
Miller go over the rail, but some-
body heard one of the chasers say,
‘Holy shit! The guy went over the

edge!’”’

Schwartz said the chasers didn’t
stick around. :

Meanwhile a cab driver im-
mediately below the walkway
heard a gasp, looked up, and then
saw Miller fall over the side.

Police say an autopsy revealed
no signs of a struggle and no inju-
ries inconsistent with those sus-
tained by a fall.

Miller leaves behind a wife, 24-
year-old Rebecca Anne Miller, and
a 19-month-old daughter.
Schwartz is appealing for witnesses
to come forward. Information may
be forwarded to him at 985-1311,
local 429.

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