Police in Saanich, B.C., announced Saturday that they’re letting locals back into what was for days a crime scene, nearly a week after a shootout left six officers wounded and two twin-brother bank robbers dead.
But for witnesses to the deadly violence last Tuesday, the trauma of the events lingers.
“The bullet [was] inside our Squeaky’s Laundromat, so it was very terrifying … very close,” said laundromat owner Edward Park, whose business faces the bank involved.
Twenty-two-year-old twin brothers identified on Saturday as Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie from the city of Duncan were killed outside a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich. Six officers were shot.
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