October 23, 1992 96 pages

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NINE-YEAR-OLD Lenny Helsing ponders the differences between the small pumpkin
he’s holding and the 90-!b. (41-kg) giant he’s leaning on. The smell of fresh pumpkin

is in the air as Halioween approaches.

Father of NV man shot by police upset over investigation into death

THE FATHER of a North Vancouver man who was fatal-
ly shot by a West Vancouver Police Department drug
squad member said Thursday that he is disappcinted in the

B.C. Crown counsel investigation into his son’s death.

Daniel Possee, 22, was shot by
the police on the night of May 12
during a drug raid by West Van-
couver Poiice and North Van-
couver RCMP officers on a house
at 129 East 26th St. in North
Vancouver.

Possee, who had been living at
the address at the time of the raid,
was using a pellet rifle for target

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

practice in the basement of the
house when the police entered.

He was shot in the chest by a
West Vancouver Police officer
armed with a nine-millimetre

handgun.

He was not named in the police
search warrant.

The police were looking, in-
stead, for Possee’s sister Kelly and
her boyfriend Justin King, neither
of whom was in the house at the
time.

Police, who said they had
teason to believe there was a
substantial amount of drugs in the
house, found only 15 grams of
marijuana, worth an estimated
$100.

This week, an investigation into

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the incident by regional Crown
counsel Bob Wright found that
there were no grounds to lay
charges against any of the officers
involved in the drug raid.

Wright said the police had
thought Possee was armed with a
shotgun and had reason to fear
for their lives.

Possee's father Derek, a former
star with the Vancouver
Whitecaps soccer team, said he
talked with Wright for two hours
and understands Wright’s decision
not to lay charges against the

police.

But he added that many ques-
tions remain unanswered in the
case.

“} was disappointed with his
(Wright's) statement. He kept
talking about procedure. What is
procedure? The doors (at the
house) were always unlocked, and
it took six police officers to go in.

“A knock at the door and
Danny would still be alive today. I
don't think there was a threat at
all,’’ said Possee.

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