SURREY, B.C. – Two men are due in court on Monday who are charged in the death of a university student in Surrey, B.C.
Nineteen-year-old Maple Batalia was gunned down in September 2011 as she was leaving Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus, where she’d been studying.
Twenty-year-old Gurjinder Dhaliwal is charged with first-degree murder and 22-year-old Gursimar Bedi with manslaughter.
Bedi is also charged with using a firearm and being an accessory after the fact.
The R-C-M-P say the two were arrested Friday night.
Police didn’t confirm reports Dhaliwal was the victim’s ex-boyfriend — saying only that investigators knew about both men from the beginning of their 14-month investigation.
Batalia, who dreamed of being a doctor, was modelling and acting to pay for her education and had a small role in the movie “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.”
Her sister Rosie called the arrest of her alleged killer bittersweet, and said the family hopes Maple can now finally be at peace.
Court appearance Monday in Surrey for two murder suspects
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