Tax Sale Eviction Shooting

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I am sure most of you might have heard of this incident most recently but thought I would post it. There might be a property that I might be putting a big on and the people are still living there. I am sure this doesn't happen often, but this is part of the risk of a tax sale.


OTTAWA -- A tense 14-hour standoff came to an end Friday morning when a man suspected in the shooting of an Ontario Provincial Police officer surrendered to police.

Police surrounded an isolated two-storey house in the Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley, located about 80 kilometres southwest of Ottawa, shortly after the Thursday night shooting. Police officers had responded to an unspecified call for service at the residence. During the incident, Const. Chris Trower was shot in the upper body. He was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, and was reported in stable condition Friday.

Sgt. Kristine Rae said negotiators had managed to convince the man to surrender and no one else was injured. The bearded 51-year-old man is to appear in a Brockville, Ont., court today to face a charge of attempted murder.

He apparently was alone in the house.

Dozens of police officers were involved in the action, including two tactical response units, dog teams and regular officers from across eastern Ontario. Paramedics and fire fighters were also on the scene.

Because of the isolated location, police said no neighbours were at risk of injury.

Police did not identify the suspect, but people in the area said he was Rodney King, who had lived on the property for some eight to 10 years.

Township officials confirmed that Rodney W. King had been the previous owner of the property that is now owned by an Ottawa man.

Steve Kelly, who lives in the nearby village of Jasper, Ont., said he did not know the man but knew of him. He said the man drove a camouflaged imported SUV and largely kept to himself.

Russ Radford, a resident of nearby Frankville, Ont., said the man had recently lost his house and 47 acres of land, mostly covered by bush, for tax arrears. He said the property sold for $97,000. Because the tax arrears amounted to about $12,700, he said, King was likely owed about $85,000 from the sale.

Radford said King was likely facing eviction, and the stress of that could have triggered an over-reaction.
Ottawa Citizen

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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant living the United States works several menial jobs in order to provide his family, even though he was a high-ranking official in Iran. He buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy who lost the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma