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‘THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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Newsstand Price 25¢ May 11, 1980 Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

FACING OFF for possibile confrontation with each other, a police officer
member of the Emergency Response Team draws his revolver while a
gunman with a female “hostage” keeps officers in his gun sights at a

By CHRIS LLOYD

A 22-year-old North
Vancouver woman
Wednesday became the
hostage of a gunman
who used her as bait to
lure his former
girlfriend into a
meeting he threatened

to turn into a date with
death.

The deama ended in
Vancouver s Queen

Elizabeth Park when the

training exercise in West Van held the day after this week's hostage

taking incident in Vancouver. See page A3 for story and more pictures.
(lan Smith photos)

gunman was shot by a police
marksman.

The sequence of events
began at 890 East Keith
Road, in North Vancouver,
the home of Frank Reid

Arthur Ahearn, a 21-year
old Langley man said to have
a history of drug use and

mental problems, 1s alleped
to have called at the house
holding a shotgun lo see
Reid's daughter 16 vear old

Debbie Reid
tormer girlfmend
The girl was not there and
Ahearn ts said to have forced
Frank Reid's pirlfriend,

Ahearn s

tee Cone pnecennetensan ep nernnmnes:

Lauree McLeod, to go with
him instead

Another occupant of the
house called North Van
RCMP after the two had left
and polkce took up sur-
veillance of the black 1977
Lincoln Continental the two
had been reported to have
jeft in. when it had reached
Vancouver

By the tame Vancouver
City Pohce had picked up
the car near Queen
thzabeth Park, they nouced
the woman with Ahearn was
Debbie Reid, Ahearm's cx-

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No indemnity,
no survey,
says council -
By PAT RICH

North. Vancouver
District has agreed to
do a survey of the
Riverside Diive area to
determine if any more
mudslides are possible,
but only if area
residents agree not to
use. the results of the
survey against the
municipality.

District Mayor Don Bell
and other council members
Wednesday evening met
with about 80 residents who
live in the vicinity of the
December 19 . mudslide
which destroyed two homes.

The meeting was held to
discuss a letter sent by the
District outlining conditions
under which a geo-technical
survey of the area would be
carried out.

The residents of the area
bounded by Riverside Drive,
Lennox Street and Berkeley
Avenue’ had petitioned

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weather

SUNDAY: Mainly
sunny and warmer.
MONDAY:

change.

Little

wt Bees