Person now in Prince George hospital Police shoot local man By SARAH A, ZIMMERNA A BENNER ST, man is re- covering in a Prince George hospital after being shot twice in the abdomen by police officers near his residence March 28, The shots came after police unsuccessfully tried -to subdue the man in his residence. He fled his house, prompting a foot “ ghase. ---=Police.say. they. wanted 16 talk to the. man after re- ceiving a report of an agi- tated person looking for “one of his children just after 4 p.m: that day at Ca- ledonia Secondary School. “When officers failed to find the man ‘at the school, they went to his home. “Terrace: RCMP Staff Sgt.. Tom Forster says three: police offivers heard screaming from inside the house. Police called out to the people in the home but re- ceived ‘no response, For- ster says. -“With no response there was forced entry made,” he said, He declined to Better By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN TWO LOCAL women in- volved in a car crash two weeks ago want betler signs at the intersection of Munroe St. and Lazelle Ave. Betty Gilmore’s 2000 Windstar was broadsided while. travelling down Munroe where. it intersects with. Lazelle after Bev Stevenson, a delivery van- driver,'failed to stop at the stop sign. _Gilmore’s vehicle is a write off-and she suffered a dislocated shoulder a bruised neck and a hip in- jury. It’s the second time in-less than five years that say Gilmore . hhas,.been. bit. at. ..’,. that intersection because- someone ran the stop sign. She says there needs to be some sort of a warning whether the man was threatening officers or other pecple. Forster described the man’s demeanour as being agitated and incoherent. Eyewitnesses report the man fled his residence and ran down the steep em- bankment at the foot of Benner. “All of a sudden he went dashing around the cop and he kind of spun around a little bit and ran down the bank,” says Ben- ner St. resident Dylan Riley. Soon after he heard what he believes to be gun shots. ' “IT could have swore it was three pops,” he said. Staff Sgt. Forster con- firmed two police officers - both experienced RCMP officers — chased after the man down the embank- ment. The man was then shot twice in the abdomen, but Forster could not say if the Man was carrying a wea- pon or if he was threaten- ing the officers immedia- tely before he was shot. “Both officers fired,” he ROMP CONSTABLE Natasha Stultz (left) and Cnst. Tom Kalis confer outside © the Benner St. home of a Terrace man shot by police March 28. said. The number of shots fired wasn’t released, but Forster said officers fired a number of times. RCMP members carry 9 mm Smith and Wesson handguns, The man was about 100 feet down the embankment signs wanted ahead of the intersection. “I’ve already spoken to ICBC about it,” Gilmore says. “I said, even those little bumps on the side of the road, something like that a couple -hundred feet before you hit the sign.” Though Stevenson con- cedes she wasn’t paying attention as she approa- ched the stop. sign, she says better signage is nee- ded because the intersec- tion is busy. The intersection is sur- rounded by an apartment building, the Terrace Buil- ders Do-it Centre and is located just two blocks from Skeena J School. ‘ intersection could be made safer by making it a four- way stop, installing cross- walks or putting flashing ‘and Lazelle Ave. Stevenson’ suggests. thea gis “Ave: are tied for first-and lights there — anything to increase the visibility. “From my understand- ing, because 1 know people who live in the apartment building there, there's an ‘accident there once a month and if we could all get together we could do something about it,” she says, According to ICBC ac- cident statistics for Jan. 1, 1996 to May 31, 2002 the intersection at Munrce St. ranks 13th in terrns of frequency of accidents. In that time span, 16 incidents were re- ported there. Two intersections, ‘Kalum St. and ‘Keith Ave. and: ‘Kalum St. and'Eakelse both have traffic lights. ICBC regional roads safety manager David when he was shot. He was brought up in a stretcher and transported to Mills Memorial Hospital by am- bulance, Forster said. The man was airlifted to a Prince George hospi- tal March 29 after under- going surgery here, Forster said. He was listed in fair and stable condition. Officers from the RCMP’s regional major. crime unit in Prince George are investigating. The man has not yet been charged with any- thing, but Forster said that avenue remains open. EMERGENCY crews work lo free Betty Gilmore from her vehicle after a March 271 crash at Munroe St. and Lazelle Ave. CLINT WOOD PHOTO Dickson says there’s noth- ing wrong with the signage at the intersection. “IVs a clear, straight, flat intersection and the sight lines are good,” he said, adding the stop signs there were replaced just last year. “The highly - reflective signs: were installed as‘ part of & ‘partnership betweén the city and ICBC to re- place every stop, yield, pedestrian, school zone and regulatory signs in Terrace with the highest standard of reflectiveness, “I can’t for the life of me see what we could change,” Dickson says, adding it meets all the safety standards. Terrace’s director of public works, Herb Dusdal, says'the city will take a look at the intersection as _ a result of the most recent accident. “THE MOST SERIOUS MOUNTAIN DEEP SNOW SLED EVER” . The Terrace Stondard, Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - A3 News In Brief Military expert speaks MILITARY AND international affairs expert Gwynne Dyer is coming to Terrace April 13 for a public lecture. Based in England, Dyer is an author, columnist and documentary film maker and is often called upon as a television commentator by both CBC tadio and television, He also lias a new book out on the conflict in Iraq. Dyer appears at the R.E.M, Lee Theatre 7:30 p.m. on April 13. His appearance is sponsored by the Terrace Public Library, The Terrace Standard, the Academic Workers’ Union at. Northwest Com- munity College, the Terrace and District Teachers’ Union, Thornhilt Junior Secondary School, Caledo- nia Secondary School and Skeena Junior Second- ary School. Admission by donation. Kitselas get set to build THE KITSELAS band hopes to break ground next week on a $1.4 million multipurpose building at its Gitaus subdivision east of Terrace. Chief councillor Glenn Bennett said Wayne Watson Construction cf Prince George has been awarded the contract. The building will house a small community hall and the band’s health services administration of- fices. Bennett said the band is getting $1 million from Health Canada and the Department of Indian Af- fairs for the project. Kitselas officials are also poised to sign off on a $1 million project to extend the Queensway- Churchill Drive sewer system to serve the Kitselas reserve. Back to the cafeteria MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital has re-opened its ca- feteria for limited service after failing to find a pri- vale operator to run a small coffee outlet in its main lobby, Cholly Boland of the Northern Health Authority said it seemed there wasn’t sufficient traffic to pro- vide enough revenue. Mills had earlier closed its cafeteria to save money and sought out a private coffee outlet oper- ator as an alternative. Boland said the re-opened cafeteria is breaking even. 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