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Vancouver Man Involved In Two Shootouts With Police Pleads Guilty

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 15 Sep, 2016 12:03 PM
    VANCOUVER — A man who shot and seriously wounded a former employer before confronting police in two separate Vancouver shootouts has pleaded guilty to five counts of attempted murder.
     
    Gerald Battersby appeared in provincial court Thursday in connection to the 2014 shootings in the city's Yaletown area and outside Science World.
     
    Battersby was facing six counts of attempted murder and four firearms offences.
     
    Police have said a man who'd been shot was left fighting for his life outside a coffee shop where two plain-clothes officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect, who escaped on a bike along the city's seawall.
     
    One of the officers commandeered a bike and followed and another shootout erupted outside Science World, with dozens of officers surrounding the man, who was hospitalized for serious gunshot wounds.
     
    Police credited several Good Samaritans and a retired doctor who'd worked as an emergency room physician for helping the man shot outside the coffee shop.

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