WATCH ABOVE: Tetianan Piltsina says the police officer who came to her rescue is a hero. So why is he being charged with murder? John Daly reports.
VANCOUVER – A former hostage victim is speaking out today.
Tetiana Piltsina was attacked by an ex-boyfriend in the parking lot of New Westminster’s Starlight Casino three years ago.
After a lengthy standoff with police, Mehrdad Bayrami was shot and killed by a Delta Police officer.
Cst. Jordan MacWilliams was charged with second-degree murder in October, 2014, after an investigation by the Independent Investigations Office (IIO).
Piltsina told Global News that Bayrami told her, while she was being held at gunpoint, that he would never go back to prison. She says he also told her he would leave the parking lot of the Starlight Casino in a plastic bag.
She managed to get away from him and says that is when police officers stepped in between her and Bayrami.
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She says she is baffled that the IIO never interviewed her about the case and that MacWilliams has been charged with murder.
“He’s not a murderer, definitely,” she says. “Like I said before, not at all, no, no, no. I’m surprised they didn’t start an investigation in the first place.”
Piltsina says when she heard MacWilliams was facing the second-degree murder charge, that is when she contacted Delta Police and the IIO. But the IIO never called her back.
“He’s a brave man and I hope that bizarre situation around him will be ending.”
The IIO has not commented on Piltsina’s comments as the case is now before the courts.
“It’s really surprising for a man sent to do his job, and do his job properly, in my opinion,” says Piltsina.
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