The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) confirms a 1st degree murder charge has been laid against one of the alleged suspects in a kidnapping and homicide case in North Vancouver.
A body was found in a car on Sept. 29, just after 3 a.m. in an area near Wellington Avenue.
Police were responding to reports of an alleged kidnapping, and eventually found the victim deceased.
Investigators believe it was a targeted attack, and a source told Global News it was a kidnapping that went awry.
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The victim was being held for $200,000 – but when the money was procured, it allegedly wasn’t enough. The source says he then tried to escape, but died in the process.
Twenty three-year old Tian Zhang has now been charged with 1st degree murder, along with charges of kidnapping and indignity to a body.
Twenty-one-year-old Casey Hiscoe is also charged with kidnapping and indignity to a body. Twenty-year-old Dyllan Green and 18-year-old Jacob Gorelik have been charged with indignity to a body.
Green and Gorelik have been released on bail.
Zhang and Hiscoe are still being held in custody.
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