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April 18, 1993 44 pages

Office, Editorial 985-2131

Possee friend testifies officer
blamed police in NV incident

THE MAN targeted by North Shore police on the night of

a drug raid gone wrong said a police officer told him that

the police were to blame for the fatal shooting of 22-

year-old Danny Possce.

Crown counsel dropped drug
charges against Justin King, 21, in
exchange for his testimony Thurs-
day ala coroner's inquest examin-
ing the ill-fated raid and shooting.

“He (a police officer) basically
told me throughout (hat it was the
police's fault. He kept saying:
‘Sorry, it was our fault,’"* said
King.

Possee was shot by West Van-
couver Police Const. Tim Polliu
on the night of May 12, 1992 in
his North Vancouver basement
suite. While police had a search
warrant, Possee was not named in
the document.

Police were after King and
Possec’s sister Kelly, 21, and
suspected the pair of trafficking in
narcotics.

Possee was shot after police
burst into his basement suite,
unannounced, and found him
holding whai they believed to be a
.308 Winchester rifle. The weapon

NORTHLANDS

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

turned out to be a pellet gun.

King lived in the house with
Possee. He testified that he was in
his bedroom with his girlfriend,
Tasia Reslis, when the police
made their raid.

King said that he heard a loud
bang and got out of bed to find a
police officer at his bedroom win-
dow. King said that he handed the
officer 14 grams of marijuana.

The witness said that he learned
Possee had died when he was at
the police station, where he was
taken after his arrest.

“Everybody kept saying Danny
was fine so I relaxed (in a jail
cell), Then a cop came to talk to
me and said: ‘By the way, Dan-
ny’s dead.’

“After I heard Danny died, |

See Shooting page 3

Planner blasts NVD
solf course proposal

THE AUTHOR of the orig-
inal Northlands Neighbor-
-hood Concept Plan has
labelled the yvolf course
proposal for the Seymour
site as ‘‘preposterous’’ and
““offensive.’*

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

Former North Vancouver
District planner Kai Kreuchen
compared the golf course proposal
to that of ‘tboaiers demanding a
subsidized, world-class marina in
Cates Park and then fencing the
park off for marina users only.”

He pointed out that the propos-
ed Northlands course would be
built kitty-corner to the Seymour
Golf Course which is on feased
municipal land “highly subsidized
by virtue of Us assessed land value
of $110,000 an acre.”’

“Al this for the exclusive use
of a few golfers not just from the
district, but anywhere.

“To ask the taxpayers of the
district to. underwrite the North-
lands golf course to the tune of
$100 million in these days of eco-

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NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL

nomic and social hardship is of-
fensive,’” said Kreuchen.

Kreuchen maintains the district
has been quietly running an an-
nual deficit of $10 to $15 million
by dipping into its land bank
which was once a $1] billion asset.
He said comparatively little of the
fand bank left will be easily de-
veloped.

“Northlands is the last available
area to build a model neighbor-
hood,” Kreuchen said.

“This proposal is of such
significance that it should be the
subject of a district-wide referen-
dum or at feast the prime election
issue this November,’’ said
Kreuchen,

But Mayor Murray
did not agree.

Dykeman

Describing the public input to
date as ‘exhaustive’? and agreeing
that he saw oa referendum as a
“derailment? of the process,
Dykeman told the News, ‘We
don’t need to get into an exten-
sion for the sake of extending.”

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FUN DOCS

Designs on Doctors and
Nurses— an evening of
food, fashions and fun.

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DRYDOCK

The Panamax floating
drydock is a vital part of
the Port of Vancouver.

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NEWS photo Teny Peters

Garden city

!F APRIL showers bring May flowers the gardeners for the city of North
Vancouver have gota head start with the briiliant floral display outside city
hall.

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