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私はニュースで殴られている人を助けようとした女性が撃たれてなくなったとしか覚えてませんでしたが、以下事件に関する記事を見つけ、読んでみました。
この女性は友人たちと近所にあるこのクラブに行っているところ、インドカナディアンとアジアングループの喧嘩に入って行き、撃たれたようです。彼女自身はこの2つのグループとは全く関係なく、以下に書かれているように
It was just a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
全く不運にもその場に居合わせてしまったことから死んでしまう結果となったようです。お父さんがいっているように、スポーツの大好きな、またそういう場で人を助ける娘さんだったようなので、こうなってしまったようです。反射的にその場に入っていってしまい、こうなったんでしょうね。
Global and Mail TODAY’S PAPER
Vancouver crossfire claims daughter of actress By WENDY STUECK Monday, January 5, 2004 - Page A4
VANCOUVER -- The daughter of an award-winning Canadian actress and director was one of the victims in a weekend shooting in Vancouver’s Gastown district.
Rachel Davis, daughter of actress Janet Wright and musician Bruce Davis, was killed after a flurry of shots were fired outside a restaurant at about 4 a.m. Saturday. A man was also killed and four other men were injured. Police have not released any names.
Last night, Mr. Davis said he has been told his 23-year-old daughter was shot when she tried to help someone being kicked by a group of attackers.
”She’s been doing this since she’s a little kid,” Mr. Davis said. ”She has done this time and time again, thrown herself into the fray.”
Vancouver police spokeswoman Sarah Bloor would only confirm that the shooting took place outside the Purple Onion nightclub. She said of the four men injured, three remain in hospital, one in serious condition.
Police said the shots were fired after a fight between an Indo-Canadian group and an Asian group.
Ms. Davis had been at a club in the neighbourhood with friends. Her father said intervening in an altercation was ”her to a T. She wasn’t caught in the crossfire, she jumped in.”
He said the family wanted Ms. Davis’s last act to be recognized as fearless and compassionate, not written off as another gangland slaying.
”We would have been so concerned that her death would just get submerged and become part of some fear-mongering.”
Police are looking for two suspects described as Indo-Canadian men, but they believe there was only one shooter. Constable Bloor said police were still investigating any possible gang- or drug-related connections.
News of Ms. Davis’s death stunned members of Vancouver’s close-knit theatre community, where Ms. Wright has acted in and directed many productions and where Rachel was also well-known.
”We all knew her and loved her very much,” said Marsha Sibthorpe, a Vancouver lighting designer. ”It’s a horrible shock.”
The killing of Ms. Davis is another tragedy in the story of Saskatoon’s Wright family. Ms. Wright’s parents Jack and Ruth Wright and her sister, well-known theatre actor Susan Wright, died in a house fire in December of 1991 in Stratford, Ont.
The previous season, the three Wright sisters -- Janet, Susan and Anne -- had shared the stage for the first time in a Stratford production. Their brother John Wright is also an actor.
Bill Millerd, artistic director of Vancouver’s Arts Club theatre, said yesterday that Janet Wright is a ”triple threat” who is adept in stage, television and movie roles.
In October, Ms. Wright won a Gemini for best supporting actress for her role in Betrayed, in which she played a small-town doctor trying to track down the cause of an E. coli outbreak.
Mr. Millerd said that Ms. Davis, who had worked part-time as a waitress in the Arts Club lounge, had not shown signs of following her illustrious family’s path into the theatre, and appeared more interested in sports.
”I think she was trying to strike out on her own direction,” he said. ”She was very athletic, into skate-boarding; she had a great spirit. It was just a question of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Friends yesterday described the young woman as one with a keen sense of fair play who always tried to help the underdog. Ms. Wright has two other children.
Last night, Constable Bloor said 16 witnesses questioned by police after the weekend shooting were only able to provide limited descriptions from the chaotic scene. Police believe others may have seen what happened, and are asking witnesses to come forward.
Saturday’s shooting took place near a Gastown nightclub where three men were killed and five men wounded in shootings in August. About 60 Indo-Canadian men have been killed in the Lower Mainland over the past few years in slayings believed to be related to drugs and gangs.
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