Two dead after armed robbery at Edmonton spa

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EDMONTON — An armed robber shot himself dead outside a Mill Woods liquor store Thursday morning after shooting and killing a worker at a nearby spa.
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2 E( e$ `9 ^/ M/ n8 X: |/ uPolice say the man entered the Bella Tonic spa on Millbourne Road at about 10 a.m., pulled out a handgun and demanded money. When an employee confronted him, the man fired the weapon, fatally wounding the employee.

Minutes later, the man appeared again at a liquor store five blocks away, said spokesman Jeff Wuite. He robbed the store and left by the front door. When he saw police outside he apparently shot himself.

) Y% @$ b" b& y7 @* `8 X. V3 ?: ZAmanda Gill, an employee at Bella Tonic, arrived for work at 11:30 and was shocked to find police tape.
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- C, s" j+ f' p1 B3 U0 Q5 G“I just got back from a trip last night,” she said. “It’s a good thing I didn’t start at 10.”
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Gill said the salon has been owned by Nina Bains and her husband for about the last six years. It’s a family business, she said, and Bains’s husband and son work inside.
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“I’m just in shock right now,” she said.
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6 I+ l* R% w' U' Z2 O; n/ R- O7 xTamara, who used to work at Bella Tonic, identified a woman crying outside as Nina Bains. Tamara asked that her last name not be used.

In the aftermath of the first shooting, two nearby schools were locked down.
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! l8 T5 N5 c1 VMore than 400 students at St. Elizabeth Elementary and St. Hilda Junior High were kept inside for about half an hour as police raced to secure the scene.

! I2 k- W' B% ~% fStudents at the school will be sent home with letters explaining what happened, said Catholic School Board spokeswoman Lori Nagy.

The lockdown started at about 10:30 a.m. and was over by 11 a.m., Nagy said.

Workers at a nearby day care also locked their doors after the shooting.

7 u' [! G2 \6 I“We were terrified and my heart is still thumping,” said Indira Saroya, the co-owner of Shiva Day Care. “How many innocent people have to die? My heart goes out to the family.”
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Saroya said the 40 children inside the day care didn’t understand what was happening.
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After the shooting, an injured man left the spa and staggered into the Medicine Shoppe pharmacy next door, said Gusharan Buttar, who was at the scene. Hours later police were still inside that store.

At Millbourne Liquor five blocks away, a forensics unit was examining the scene at around 1 p.m.

A table sat propped up in front of the entrance, blocking the view of the body still lying out front.
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3 W9 B8 Z- f5 q+ u5 l. x* b# @A security guard inside the nearby Safeway said a woman ran into the store at about 10:15 a.m. and told him police needed them to lock their doors right away.

# i- C9 J' t' y% M1 jTactical officers soon appeared in the parking lot outside, said Andy Zayat.

“You could see them running around with the guns drawn,” he said. “They looked sort of confused.”
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$ ?+ ?/ a/ u1 B) }/ S( R& PPolice have only identified the dead men as adult males.

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Mark

震惊！

红枫情怀

Millwoods 地区的治安真的很差吗？

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