FRIDAY
March 7, 1997

Witness
followed
cinema
killer

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

A murderer was fol-
lowed outside by a
witness after the hor-
rific execution-style
shooting of a man on
Feb. 28 in a Lower

Lonsdale cinema.

North Vancouver RCMP
Const. Tom Seaman said the wit-
Ness came for-
ward an
Tuesday, five
days after
Mohammed
(Mo) Mirhadi
was killed.

Mirhadi,

21, of North ; 1.
‘Vancouver, had , ,
been sitting Mo Mirhadi’s
beside his girl- funeral is
friend in the next week.
front row of a
packed movie
Esplanade 6 Ci
Esplanade. At approximately
11:30 p.o., as the couple
watched the late show of the
gangster movie Donnie Brasco, a
man came up to Mirhadi and shot
him three times, once in the head.
Mirhadi was left slumped in his
seat, fatality wounded, as the
movie continued plaving.

Police say the witness, whose
name was net released, followed
the shooter to the fire exit where
there was another man standing.
The witess and the other man
looked over the railing as the
shooter ran west down the lane
behind the theatre.

The witness followed the
shectc:, police say, but lost sight
of him near Semisch Avenue. At
that time, the witness noticed a
couple having a conversation in
the underground parking lot of
Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub. Police
believe the couple may have seen
the shooter.

The shooter is described as a
non-white mate, perhaps of
Iranian or East Indian descent,
who is heavy set and 1.8 metres
(Bb) all.

Police would like to speak to
the other man who watched the
shooter from the railing, as well as
the couple in the parking lor.

Mirhadi’s death is the first

theatre at the
mas on West

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DEEP Cove cancer-fighter Lucas Rupert-Brown is a pioneer in home care, which some say is better than time spent in a hospital.

Cancer treat
braved at

By jan Noble
News Reporter

FIVE-year-old Lucas Rupert-
Brown is doing his part to
make cancer treatment a more
palatable experience for Lower

Mainland chiidren.

ying on his bed, closely scrutinizing his
miniature dinosaurs and Star Trek and Star
Wars toys, the Deep Cove boy looks like many
boys engrossed in a fantasy world.

However, unlike other boys, Lucas must
hold the small figures inches from his one
usable eye to identify dozens of characters and
ancient: creatures. He knows them all by
name.

Lucas was diagnosed with an orange-sized

j Sunny days
signal spring
garden fever

innovative approach to
chemotherapy process
reduces family stress

tumor behind his nose in July 1996. Since
then, while his vision has been shrinking to a
20-degree spot in one eye, he has had to
endure chemotherapy sessions at B.C.
Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. For the
past. six months, the sessions have dropped
from once a week to once every three weeks.

Essentially, the chemicals destroy the
potential of the cancer cells to divide and
grow,

During treatment, he stayed at rhe hospital
for at least 24 hours for a hydration session to
pass the drugs through his system.

e Ringette players

hit stride at
hockey nats

Fevers and other complications extended
the hospital visits.

Three other children and their parents
would also share the ward. With up to four
children oa different schedules trying to deal
with the nauseating affects of the chemother-
apy agents, there was no time for sleep, said
Shar Lucas’s mother. Lucas and Sharen
would be stressed and exhausted at the end of
a hospital stay thar not only wore the two out,
but burned through a thicket of taxpayer
cash.

“You go in there and it’s like watching a
bunch of zombies,” said Sharen.

So Sharen devised a prescription to bring
Lucas home for his hydration. That, she

cted, would decrease the stre:
of them and lead to a shorter recovery ime

See Home care page 3

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