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Dozens attend candlelight vigil to remember 30-year-old Vancouver shooting victim

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30 year-old man identified as Vancouver’s 8th homicide victim of 2020
Amin Shahin Shakur, 30, was shot and killed near Main Street and East 48th Avenue just after 11:30 p.m. Monday – Jul 14, 2020

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.

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His death is Vancouver’s eighth homicide of the year.

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