A B.C. father is speaking out today hoping the thieves who stole his computers will return them.
Dwayne Peterson is concerned because the hard drives contained photos of his deceased son, Patrick, who passed away from cancer on Aug. 29, 2015.
The computers were taken when Dwayne’s vehicle was broken into during the first week of August in the 3900-block of 14th Street in Vernon. The vehicle is a white 2010 GMC Sierra pick-up truck with Alberta plate YKV 627.
Police say there was no damage to the vehicle and it was possibly accidentally left unlocked. Taken was a grey laptop bag containing a silver 17″ HP touchscreen laptop, a black 13″ Toshiba laptop and two external hard drives, one with two terabytes of storage, the other with four terabytes, both of unknown makes.
Dwayne Peterson is hoping he will get the stolen goods back, as they are all they have left to remember Patrick’s last months’ alive, in picture form.
“Patrick would not want to have anybody sad or down about what was to ultimately take his life, he began a bucket list and he tried to achieve all he could before no longer being abler to leave the hospital,” said Dwayne.
“Patrick was able to marry his girlfriend and was able to travel with me to see his lifelong favourite football team the Denver Broncos play and saw his favourite player Payton Manning. This would be the last time Patrick and I shared father and son time together away from home.”
“Sadly the pictures of his last months, up to the last days of his life spent in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy, dialysis and surgeries are on the stolen hard drives and laptops. All this has opened up wounds that will never really heal and left us feeling the pain all over again. I am simply making a plea to all, to anyone who may know or hear anything or know about the computers and hard drives. I beg that they please return what little a father has left other than a broken heart.”
Cpl. Dan Moskaluk with Southeast RCMP District says this is one of those cases where if someone wants to come forward and return the items to police, no questions will be asked.
Anyone wishing to return these items or who may have information about how police can retrieve them are asked to contact the Vernon RCMP at 250-545-7171 or via Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Comments