1. IHIT confirms identity of Chilliwack鈥檚 second homicide of the year
Victim was 25-year-old Zach Cross who RCMP say was known to police.
2. Chilliwack mayor and neighbours protest high-risk sex offender
James William Conway has been in Chilliwack at an undisclosed location for almost a year, until neighbours spotted the 43-year-old wearing an electronic ankle monitor in their Eastern Hillsides neighbourhood.
3. 鈥楨xtreme鈥� graffiti of f-bombs and penis doodles mars elementary school
White Rock RCMP are investigating vandalism that left a school with expletives and male genitalia painted on its walls.
4. Jaspal Atwal to be tried in June 2019 on charge of uttering threat
A former MP whose attendance at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau鈥檚 reception in India in February sparked an international brouhaha was arraigned Thursday on an unrelated charge of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.
5. 124 people died of drug overdoses in April: coroner
A total of 511 people have died from overdoses in B.C. between January and April, with nearly 50 per cent of the deaths ocurring in Vancouver and Surrey.
JUST IN: 511 people died of an OD in B.C. between January and April this year. People aged 19-59 have accounted
鈥� Ashley Wadhwani (@ashwadhwani)
for 91% of the deaths. More to come.
