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Posted: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:28 am |
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Murder suspect, slain officer may have known each other
Updated: Wed Mar. 10 2010 7:32:44 AM
ctvtoronto.ca
A man suspected of trading gunfire with police in an incident that saw an officer shot and killed was identified Tuesday as 70-year-old Fred Preston, a former reeve of a small community that residents say the slain officer was raised in.
Preston, of Sundridge, Ont., remained in critical condition after being shot in the gunfight with two provincial police officers Monday, the province's Special Investigation's Unit said.
Const. Vu Pham, a 15-year veteran of the force and a married father of three boys, died several hours after pulling over a pickup truck in rural southwestern Ontario on Monday morning. Police have said Pham, 37, was critically shot and immediately incapacitated.
Witnesses described a tense gunfight with 15 to 20 shots fired across the two-lane road.
In what appears to be a startling coincidence, several Sundridge residents said Pham was raised in the northern Ontario community, some 375 kilometres from the scene of the shootout, and that he and Preston attended the same church.
"Vu was raised by a Pentacostal minister here in town," Bill Callery told radio station AM980. "We all went together in the same church."
Marilyn Merrick, who served on council with Preston while he was reeve of Joly Township, called it a "wild coincidence."
"It's really strange how it ends up that they're both from Sundridge," she told the radio station.
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