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Vancouver police say man charged in elderly victim’s death after alleged attack

Vancouver police say man charged in elderly victim's death after alleged attack | iNFOnews.ca
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VANCOUVER – A charge of manslaughter has been laid against a suspect in the death of an 86-year-old man in Vancouver.

Police say in a news release that 58-year-old Thomas Toth allegedly assaulted the victim outside a Costco store last Dec. 20 following an altercation.

Orlando Ocampo was rushed to hospital and died of his injuries on Jan. 11.

Police say Toth was identified early in the investigation.

He has been released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court next Thursday.

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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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