WATCH ABOVE: Mother of murdered teen calls for cameras to be installed in parks. Grace Ke reports.
VANCOUVER – The mother of a murdered teen is calling for cameras to be installed in parks.
Fifteen-year-old Dario Bartoli was killed in December at Bakerview Park in South Surrey during a fight that police say was likely fueled by alcohol.
His killer has not been caught, but his mother believes surveillance cameras would have helped solve her son’s death.
Dario’s mother has now called for a pilot project to get cameras installed around Surrey. She calls it the Dario Bartoli Movement. “If there are cameras at entry points, you know, criminals will think twice before travelling to and from different areas,” said June Iida, Dario’s mother. “My son’s attackers could be arrested by now because of hard evidence.”
Investigators say Bartoli was with another boy, aged 14, when they were attacked by a group of people on Dec. 13, before fleeing to a house in the 15600 block of 18 Ave. around 2:30 a.m.
“What the early investigation to date reveals is that this was a liquor-fuelled altercation,” said S/Sgt. Jennifer Pound of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team at the time. “What I may mean by that is that there were two individual groups, there was an altercation that ensued, and we believe that these groups had been drinking for some time throughout the previous day.”
Bartoli was rushed to Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, where he died of his injuries around 10:20 a.m.
Iida said she would like to first see cameras installed at Bakerview and Sunnyside parks, at intersections and points of entry into Surrey. She has already spoken with the Surrey mayor and RCMP about the project.
“There has to be something,” she said. She hopes to raise money for at least a dozen cameras to start.
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