EEDEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-02 published
Suspect arrested
Police won't say if they've established a motive
By Joe BELANGER and Joe
MATYAS,
Fri.,
May 2, 2008
Police search the area around an apartment building at 24 Gammage
St. where the city's first homicide of the year took place early
yesterday. (Susan
BRADNAM,
Sun
Media)
Police arrested a suspect and seized a vehicle yesterday as they
probed the killing of a Halifax man visiting the city.
The body of Wayne Fulton
DAHR, 54, was found late Wednesday night
in a walkup apartment at 24 Gammage Street, north of Oxford Street.
The Nova Scotia man had been visiting London for the past month,
police said.
Yesterday afternoon, about 17 hours after police were first alerted
to concerns about
DAHR, an unidentified suspect was arrested.
Tight-lipped police weren't talking about the suspect, or who
rents the apartment where the body was found.
But the building registry shows an occupant at unit 306, where
the body was found, with the surname
DAHR, suggesting the dead
man had been visiting a relative.
Police had already found the victim's vehicle, a PT Cruiser,
blocks away from the apartment building where his body was found,
near a four-storey walkup at 1284 Gramercy Park Place, off Brydges
Street.
The vehicle was seized for forensic examination, said Const. Amy
Phillipo.
DAHR was found dead with "obvious trauma," police said, declining
to be more specific.
Police wouldn't say if they've established a motive for the killing.
An autopsy is expected within two days, they said.
Residents of the Gammage Street apartment complex said they saw
police knocking on doors early yesterday and asking questions.
Residents in the clutch of six, three-storey walkups were clearly
taken by surprise.
"A homicide? Really? Here? Who?" asked one.
None of nearly 24 residents interviewed said they heard anything
unusual before police arrived about 11 p.m. Wednesday to "check
the welfare" of someone in the apartment.
"The police knocked on my door around 1 a.m. or 1: 30 a.m. and
asked if I'd heard anything, but I'm in the basement with a floor
between us, so I wouldn't have heard anything," said Darren
EEDEN,
EEDEN and other residents in the well-kept complex said the area
is generally quiet, but for the occasional loud party.
"You'll see some sketchy characters around sometimes, but I haven't
seen any violence,"
EEDEN said.
EEDEN and other residents said they suspect a few drug dealers
live in the area.
Curious residents came and went, watching from windows and balconies
as police and reporters worked the scene.
Officers searched on rooftops and through dumpsters and the grass
around the apartment buildings for clues.
A lock to the building. smashed and broken, lay on the sidewalk.
Police also removed an object from a clothing bin they searched.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 519-661-5670.
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EEDY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-13 published
OKE,
George
M.
74 years, of Petrolia, at Bluewater Health - C.E.E. Site, Petrolia
on Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Loving husband of Norma. Dear
father of Warren and Karrie
OKE of Sarnia and Donna Marie
SHIPP
of Fort Erie and step-father of Linda and Bob
HEDDEN of Wallaceburg,
Sandra and Neil
MARCHAND of Dresden, Diane and Larry DE
FRAEYE
of Dresden, and Ken and Laura Lee
SMITH of Dresden. Dear brother
of Doreen and Charlie
EEDY of Denfield and the late Neil (2007)
and Donna OKE of Pike Bay. He will be missed by fifteen grandchildren,
ten great-grandchildren, a nephew, and many cousins. George was
predeceased by his parents Bruce and Edna
OKE.
Visitors will
be received on Thursday February 14, 2008 from 12: 00 to 12:45
at the Needham-Jay Funeral Home, Petrolia, where a funeral service
will follow at 1: 00 p.m. As expressions of sympathy, memorial
donations may be made by cheque to the Canadian Cancer Society.
Memories and condolences may be left online from www.needhamjay.com
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