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Penticton, B.C. residents shaken by fatal shootings; vigil for victims planned GlobeBC

RCMP officers continue to work outside a crime scene at the corner of Lakeview Drive and Heales Ave. in Penticton, B.C., on April 16, 2019.Residents of British Columbia’s southern Okanagan will gather this evening for a candlelight vigil to honour four people shot to death in a targeted attack in Penticton.

Police say another man and two women, all in their 60s and 70s, were fatally shot in neighbouring homes in a separate area of the city less than an hour later.RCMP Supt. Ted De Jager says 68-year-old John Brittain then walked into the Penticton RCMP detachment and surrendered.

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