19-year-old student Maple Batalia was gunned down in Surrey early Wednesday morning. Photograph by: Handout
Pictured is Gurjinder "Gary" Dhaliwal, former boyfriend of Surrey murder victim Maple Batalia. Photograph by: *, Special to the Sun
Family of Surrey murder victim to protest at former boyfriend’s court appearance
By Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun October 14, 2011
Pictured is Gurjinder “Gary” Dhaliwal, former boyfriend of Surrey murder victim Maple Batalia.
Photograph by: *, Special to the Sun
METRO VANCOUVER – Friends and relatives of Surrey murder victim Maple Batalia are planning a peaceful protest outside Surrey Provincial Court Oct. 17.
The 9:30 a.m. event is timed to coincide with a court appearance by her former boyfriend Gurjinder (Gary) Dhaliwal, who is charged with two counts of assault in connection with an incident at a Tim Horton’s four days before Batalia was gunned down Sept. 28.Details of the event are posted on a facebook page named RIP Maple Batalia.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team continues to follow up leads in the case and has not identified any suspects publicly.
Batalia, 19, was sprayed with gunfire about 1 a.m. in a parking lot beside Surrey’s Simon Fraser University campus.
The health sciences student, actor and model had spent the evening studying before she was killed.
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“I do trust the justice system,” she said. “I think there will be justice for my sister. She was my everything.”
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