Willow Park Centre Shooting Clarified Homicide by Calgary Police
Schools are no longer in lockdown after man dies from several gunshot wounds.
The Calgary Police were looking for a suspect in a shooting in the city's southeast of May 28th 2015 that left one man injured that later died. Officers were hurried to the 10300 block of Bonaventure Drive S.E in Willow Park at approximately 10:30 am Mountain Time. The police say the man was taken to the hospital with wounds from the gunshots and later died. The parking lot at Willow Park Centre on Bonaventure Drive and 99th avenue S.E had been secured with crime scene tape for Police to look for a suspect Witnesses reported hearing many gunfires. Two nearby schools were put in a temporary lockdown because of the shooting.
"Both the schools have now been released and there is no evidence that children attending those schools were in danger as a result of the incident," police spoke in a press release. "Homicide detectives are currently reviewing CCTV footage and interviewing many witnesses as part of their investigation."
The police have identified the victim of the shooting in southeast Calgary on Wednesday as a 23 year old man by the name of Taylor Zanoni in Calgary. The young man was hurried to the hospital after the police responded to reports of shots fired at Willow Park Centre on Bonaventure Drive, but he later failed to resist his injuries. It is official that the shooting did not appear at random.
Around December of 2014, Taylor Zanoni was charged with 33 criminal offences related to a joint RCMP and the Calgary Police investigation which ended in the seizure of $250,000 worth of drugs, some including cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, GHB, fentanyl, cannabis resin and Phenacetin.
The Calgary police have also found a .357 Magnum revolver with the serial number defaced, body armour, ammunition and other weapons whilst executing search warrants in 2014. The investigation carried out under Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT), which has formerly been described as "a compilation of the province's most sophisticated law enforcement resources committed to tackling serious and organized crime.
Wednesday's shooting is Calgary's 10th homicide of 2015 and the suspect is still being questioned.