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Grande Prairie Investigation Continues

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Friday, May 26, 2006 03:58 AM

    
RCMP in Grande Prairie are still looking for some answers in their investigation of the death of a young Prince George man.
23 year old Darren Wuest died of multiple stab wounds suffered in an altercation in a downtown Grande Prairie parking lot on the long weekend.
Police are trying to locate a couple of key witnesses to the tragedy, hoping to find out what sparked the incident.
A 21 year old man from Edmonton, Mohsin Hammad Siddiqui has been charged with second degree murder in the death of Darren Wuest.  Siddiqui has been remanded in custody until July 12th when he is scheduled for another court appearance.
Meantime, funeral services for Darren Wuest will take place today in Prince George
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Another billion dollars in funding for the gun registery should swing a few more crooks into the proper use of hatchets and knifes. Guns must be so boring compared to knife work. Guns are heavy and noisy, at least the gun registery is actually working to put knives in crooks hands. Guns are very impersonal when it comes to killing, not like the excitement of a knife attack.
Obviously our thugs agree.
Hope the Liberal that were afraid of guns can stand the feel of sharp steel.
We're losing our kids to Alberta, and we don't even realy know it. The GP RCMP didn't breathe a word about this to the people of Prince George until yesterday. Darren was murdered a week ago, and our community is only hearing about it now. Why? I have an educated hunch. First, the GP RCMP initially mis-identified the victim. Last Saturday the police rallied a local family together to tell them their beloved Ryan had been murdered in GP. Not so. After experiencing the most devastating pain for almost 24 hrs, Ryan's mother made a phone call to a friend to find out Ryan was alive and unaware of what his family was going through. After informing the GP police that they were wrong, the pain that we felt was transferred to another local family once the boy was correctly identified. Darren's family learnt about his murder on Sunday, after he had lay dead since early Saturday morning. We hold Darren and his family very close to our hearts, as we know the pain they are feeling. Their boy was a wonderful, hard working boy who was in Grande Prairie to work and earn a living wage. My hunch is that the GP police didn't want to admit such an impacting mistake, and wished to keep it under the radar as long as possible.

How many of us have kids who have left to work in Alberta, where they have no family, no "community", and an ungodly amount of money to spend.

We can't bring Darren back, but hopefully soon the economic reality for young people in our province will change, and they will be able to stay home,earn decent wages, and plan for their futures in the midst of people who love them.