“I am entering the plea voluntarily, there was no coercion,” Anthony Singh Dheensaw told the courtroom, appearing virtually from jail. In Victoria, a small courtroom was filled with friends and family of Angela Dalman, who broke down in tears as soon as she heard the guilty verdict. The 40-year-old single mother was murdered outside a gathering on Friday 6 March 2020 in Langford. After firing two shots, Dheenshaw fled the scene in a car, but was arrested by police the next morning. “I heard two loud bangs, they were so loud I thought they were explosions. Three women came flying out the back of the house screaming and crying saying ‘call the police call the police!’” said a witness on the night of the incident. “I heard one of them say he was shot.” Dalman was taken to hospital but later died from her injuries, leaving behind a teenage son. “What we do know is that there was a gathering that took place at this residence where the shooting occurred. We are not sure of the relationship between the victim and the suspect at this time,” said Const. Nancy Saggar with the West Shore RCMP the day after the shooting. As of today, Dheensaw not only pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Angela Dalman on March 6, 2020, but also pleaded guilty to using a firearm in the attempted murder of a man named Derrick Oke on the same date. Details about the case have not been released. But Dheensaw should never have had the gun he used to shoot and kill Dalman or Oke in the first place. According to court records, he was under a lifetime weapons ban after being convicted of an assault in North Vancouver in 2018. According to court records, days before he shot Dalman, Dheensaw was also arrested for drug and gun possession. Those charges are still pending. A date for statement of facts, victim impact statements and sentencing for Dalman’s murder will be set later this month.
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