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the oxamlnor flouredy Auoun 30 1979 Police brutality complaint Bizarre incident Todd Joiner was hit by car near his home in Hartford Conn Tues day night as he rode his bike Both he and the bike were dragged about 60 feet under the car that hit him When bystanders attempted to lift the car to ex tricate the little boy the driver took gun from the car and wounded seven of them ac cording to bystanders Todd is listed in stable condition in the inten sive care unit of local hospital warrant has been issued for 20 yearold Hartford man who police said was the driver of the car AP Photo Murder tally doubles OTTAWA tCPl The annual number of murders has almost doubled in the last decade but showed slight drop last year Statistics Canada survey shows The federal agency this week released 1978 summary of mur der and manslaughter showing 590 murders last year com pared with 624 in 1977 However the 1978 total is 873 per cent higher than the 315 murders on record for 1968 Last year there were 25 murders per 100000 population the survey shows In eight of 10 homicide incidents the victim and suspect knew each other Murders occurred most often within families In slightly more than one third of all cases the victim and suspect had kinship ties Another third involved victims and suspects who had either social or business links The remaining third was collection of unsolved homi cides those reported in con junction with another criminal act and those in which the vic tim and suspect were strangers This pattern varied across the country In the Maritimes and Prairies close to half of all homicides were committed within families The figure for Quebec and British Columbia was 25 per cent and for Ontario 30per cent Quebec was the province in which the largest proportion of homicides remained unsolved 38 per centl It was also the province with the lowest proportion of domestic homicides Shooting was the most corn mon method used in 38 per cent of homicides Beating ac counted for 23 per cent and stabbing 22 per cent Slightly more than two thirds of homicide victims were male and 86 per cent of suspects were men Remanded in wounding CORNWALL Ont tCPl Denis Demers 23 of Hawkesbury Ont charged with attempted murder in con nection with the wounding Mon day of two town policemen was remanded Wednesday to Sept 10 when he appeared in provine cial court in nearby LOrignal Police said police constable and sergeant were in cruiser when they were wound ed with pellets fired from shotgun The policemen who had been about to investiate com Iaint at an apartment buil ing have been released from hospital Hawkesbury is mkilometres east of Ottawa TORONTO CP Metropolitan Toronto Police said Wednesday they have found complaint of police brutality and harassment filed earlier this year by man shot to death in his home by police copy of the statement by Albert Johnson 35 has been turned over to provincial police who will investigate the complaint as well as the shooting death of Johnson on Sunday Johnson black immigrant from Jamaica filed the state ment with the Ontario Human Rights Commission in May after an incident at his home May 12 during which he was al leged to have been beaten by nine police officers The commission forwarded the statement to the police de partment because it has no ju risdiction over police matters However the head of the police citizens complaint bureau de nied Tuesday that the force had any knowlege of the statement But StaffSupt John Ward executive officer for Chief Har old Adamson said Wednesday the statement dated Aug 15 1979 arrived in his office Aug 22 along with letter from commission official WRONG ADDRESS He said the letter should have been addressed to the com CORRECTION On page 12 of our School Stuff flyer inserted in our paper this week the Sunbeam Electric Cm Opener is unavailable for sale due to manufacturers shipping difficulties We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers plaint bureau so he forwarded it 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