Police are trying to find a motive following a fatal shooting in Langley, B.C., on Monday.
Investigators say a series of attacks spanned four different scenes over the course of six hours.
Two people were shot dead and two others were injured.
Police also shot and killed the gunman, 28-year-old Jordan Daniel Goggin.
His neighbors told Global News that his recent behavior was very strange.
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Charity Siczek said when she woke up Monday morning and saw the emergency alert on her phone, she immediately thought of Goggin.
“I thought, ‘I wonder if this is my neighbor?'” he told Global News.
He lived in the same house as Goggin.
“He seemed very reserved, very quiet, but last week he was very off,” Siczek added.
She said it looked like maybe he was under the influence of something and would say things like. “I’m so messed up, this life is so messed up.”
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Other neighbors told Global News they would see Goggin sitting in his car, smoking and listening to heavy metal music at all hours of the day and night.
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“I’ve never seen anybody sitting alone in their car that late at night,” said neighbor Conor Morison. “I never said anything to her, but (she seemed) kind of a girl.”
Investigators said Monday that Goggin was known to have “non-criminal contacts,” but did not provide further details.
On Monday, RCMP responded to multiple reports of shots fired at various locations in the city of Langley, as well as a scene in Langley Township involving “transient” victims, according to an emergency alert sent to cell phones from the people around 6:20. I am
The names of the victims have not been released at this time.
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Two men died in the shooting and a woman remains in hospital in critical condition.
The three often went to Kim’s Angelz Charity church for food and shelter, the organizer told Global News.
“They’re two human beings who are kind,” Kim Snow said. “They’d give you the shirt off their back if they had an extra shirt. That’s the kind of people they are.”
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Ray Winberg, who also works for the charity, said he knew the woman, who is now in hospital with serious injuries.
He told Global News it’s “nice” and “easy.”
According to the charity, all three people suffered from drug addiction.
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City of Langley Mayor Val van den Broek said she believes there are hundreds of homeless people in the city and there aren’t enough shelters or subsidized housing to help them.
“Honestly, I’m heartbroken this morning,” he said at a news conference Monday. “I can’t say it any other way, because I know some of the people involved.
“We have been in situations where people have come and asked me for a house to spend the night. And I have nothing. I have to tell them, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t have a place for you.’ So … maybe that’s the catalyst to move forward.”
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