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VPD investigators outside the Subway restaurant at Hornby and Helmcken where a gravely wounded man was discoverd before 9 PM Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, PNG
For photos from the scene of the first Vancouver homicide of 2011, please click here.
VANCOUVER - Vancouver recorded its first homicide of 2011 after a shooting downtown on Thursday night.
The shooting took place around 8:40 p.m. in the 1000-block of Hornby Street, near Helmcken. Multiple witnesses reported hearing three gunshots, then seeing a man run into a Subway restaurant, where he collapsed.
The suspect fled on foot.
The victim was Milad Nournia, 26. When he was shot, he had a loaded handgun on him.
Nournia had drug trafficking and gun convictions.
Paramedics performed CPR on the v ictim before he was loaded on to a stretcher and taken to Vancouver General Hospital.
Const. Jana McGuinness of the Vancouver Police Department confirmed the man died upon arriving to the hospital.
Hornby Street was cordoned off between Davie and Nelson streets as police processed the scene.
The VPD's major crime section is investigating.
VPD investigators outside the Subway restaurant at Hornby and Helmcken where a gravely wounded man was discoverd before 9 PM Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Vancouver, B.C.
Photograph by: Ian Lindsay, PNG
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