Penticton residents shaken by fatal shootings; vigil for victims planned
PENTICTON, B.C. — 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.
The vigil will be held in Gyro Park in the city’s downtown, just a few blocks from a duplex where 71-year-old Rudi Winter died Monday in the first of two shootings.
Police say another man and two women, all in their 60s and 70s, were fatally shot less than an hour later in a separate area of the city.
Kim Kirkham, executive director of the Penticton and Wine Country Chamber of Commerce, said the small city of 34,000 nestled between two lakes and rolling mountains is having trouble coming to terms with the violence.