Thousands of first responders lined the streets Thursday morning in a procession stretching from Vancouver General Hospital to Burnaby to pay tribute to one in every of their very own.
Const. Shaelyn Yang, 31, labored in the Burnaby RCMP detachment’s psychological well being and homeless outreach staff and was killed in the road of obligation on Tuesday.
“Constable Shaelyn Yang was an absolute hero in serving our neighborhood and doing the very same factor that cops throughout this nation do day-after-day,” Vancouver Police Department Chief Adam Palmer tells CTV News.
Yang was concerned in an altercation at Broadview Park when she was fatally stabbed. A suspect was additionally shot.
The RCMP has offered few particulars about what occurred in the park, citing an energetic investigation by B.C.’s police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office, in addition to a parallel investigation by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
“It’s an absolute tragedy,” says Palmer. “This has been an incident that is hit cops domestically with our brothers and sisters in the RCMP in Vancouver however actually all throughout this nation.”
Five cops have been killed in the road of obligation throughout Canada during the last month, Palmer provides.
“We’re going to pay our respects and simply present that we stand collectively as a occupation and pay our respects to our household and brothers and sisters. We’re by no means going to overlook Shaelyn Yang.”
Just sooner or later after Yang’s loss of life, a suspect was charged with first-degree assassination.
The accused, Jongwon Ham, made a court docket look on Wednesday and was remanded in custody, the B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed in an e-mail to CTV News.
With information from CTV Vancouver’s Regan Hasegawa