Dozens of people attended a candlelight vigil at King George Park in Richmond Thursday night for the victim of a shooting in South Vancouver Monday night.
Thirty-year-old Amin Shahin Shakur was shot and killed near Main Street and East 48th Avenue just after 11:30 p.m. on July 14 near THC Canada and Dank Mart, businesses Shakur co-owned.
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The vigil was held at King George Park in Richmond, beginning at 8 p.m.
Shakur is being remembered by friends as a kind-hearted, compassionate man who gave back to his community
Police say Shakur “does not have an extensive police history” but they do believe it was a targeted murder.
His death is Vancouver’s eighth homicide of the year.
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