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HALIFAX:<\/strong> On Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at approximately 10:35 p.m., police responded to a report of an injured person in the 2400 block of Gottingen Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the scene, officers located a vehicle containing a deceased woman and an unresponsive man. Both had suffered gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The man was transported to hospital where he died as a result of his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service conducted autopsies on both victims and confirmed their manner of death to be a homicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The victims have been identified as Cora-Lee Smith, 40, and her father Bradford Downey, 73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, January 1 at approximately 1:30 a.m., officers received information that a man connected to the victims was believed to be in the area of the Halifax Commons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Officers proceeded to that location and discovered this individual deceased by gunshot wound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A firearm was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The man located deceased at the Halifax Commons has been identified as 39-year-old Matthew Costain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n His death is still under investigation by police in coordination with the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Costain was known to be in a relationship with Smith. The homicides are believed to be incidents of intimate partner violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At this time, police are not looking for any other suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The investigation remains ongoing, and anyone who may have additional information is asked to call police at 902-490-5020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Halifax Regional Police extends sincere condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the deceased, as well as witnesses of these events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”206″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”188″] [adrotate banner=”169″] HALIFAX: On Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at approximately 10:35 p.m., police responded to a report of an injured person in the 2400 block of Gottingen Street. At the scene, officers located a vehicle containing a deceased woman and an unresponsive man. Both had suffered gunshot wounds. The man was transported to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[7552,50,121,7553,2139],"class_list":["post-51336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-deaths","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-ipv","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}