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Suspect in Osoyoos Canada Day shooting surrenders to police

Suspect in Osoyoos Canada Day shooting surrenders to police | iNFOnews.ca
Steven Marlo Gallagher, 29, turned himself into RCMP in connection to a shooting on Canada Day at Osoyoos Lake. SUBMITTED/RCMP

The suspect in the Canada Day shooting at a beach in Osoyoos has turned himself in to police.

Yesterday, July 6, the RCMP named Steven Marlo Gallagher as a suspect in the shooting on July 1. He was described as armed and dangerous.

Gallagher was allegedly involved in a conflict at a beach where he produced a gun, fired several rounds, and hit a 22-year-old man.

Police asked Gallagher to contact them when he was identified as a suspect yesterday.

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Hours later, he turned himself in, according to a Penticton RCMP press release from today.

“At this time, we do not believe there is any further threat to the public,” the release says.

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Before joining the ranks of InfoTel, Dan’s byline could be found in newspapers in Penticton, Peachland and Oliver. Prior to his arrival in the South Okanagan, he first sharpened his chops as a reporter at a radio station in Brighton, Ontario, and then newspapers in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and Invermere B.C.
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