A2-Sunday News, May 11, 1980

FROM PAGE A1

girlfnend who had left him
and moved in with
somebody else.

It was later learned that
she had joined him when the
gunman had traded off his
North Vancouver hostage,
freeing Lauree McLeod in
exchange for the 16-year-
old.

The Gunman took the girl

Peter Speck back soon

into Queen Elizabeth Park
and when Vancouver Police
tried to negotiate with him
for her release he threatened
to kill the girl and himself.
While police negotiator
Sergeant Ken Doern
reasoned and argued with
the gunman, the number of
police in attendance swelled
to more than 70, with tac-
tical specialists armed with
rifles, as well as dog handlers
and an emergency response

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FOR THE FIRST TIME, the fire department was invited

tcam among the personnel.

Police later refused the
man's demand for hum to be
allowed to take the girl to
Ontario Street to show her a
house there, where he said
he would release her and
then shoot himself.

As the cordon of pohce
kept their distance, the man
and girl cuddled together,
smoking marijuana.

Several times the gunman
threatened to shoot the
police nacgotiator, who
commented that Ahcarm’s
mental condition was

“degenerating” even as they

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The gunman fired his
shotgun over the heads of
police at one point and fired
a warning shot over Debbie

NV woman was traded for gunman’s girl

Eventually Reid ran off in
a bid to escape after being
held for almost three hours.
Aheam is alleged to have
moved forward and to have
been confronted by a
policeman with a gun, who
identified himself and told

when the gunman
comply with the
demand.

The gunman's shot .
also fired, with a spray ag
pellets hitting the girl's arm. -

Ahearn was taken to :
Vancouver

did not
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Reid’s head at another stage
when she walked a few feet
away from him.

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Ahearn to drop his shotgun, ‘

Hospital, where he was
shooting him in the abdomen

operated on for his injuries.

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