1 Year After Car Thief Killed His 2nd Victim

Kreval (Admin) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:29:06 +0000

I received this email today. As some of you may remember a year ago tomorrow, December 11 2009, my friends’ father was killed by two chronic car thieves driving a stolen hummer. They ran a stop sign and smashed into him going 94 km/h in a 50 km/h zone, he was 47 and died in hospital due to massive internal injuries. The car thief pleaded guilty in June 2008 to being one of seven youths inside a stolen Silverado that was racing a stolen SUV carrying seven other teens down Portage Avenue. The SUV ended up slamming into a cab, killing driver Antonio Lanzellotti and seriously injuring a passenger. He was given 72 days of time in custody, plus two years of supervised probation, which included a curfew and not being in a car without permission. Winnipeg police have classified the man as a Level 4 offender in the Winnipeg Auto Theft Suppression Strategy, the maximum designation available, and means he is under frequent police supervision. However, he was not required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. A petition has been started a few weeks ago calling on the province to ensure that all chronic car thieves have their court orders enforced and that all breaches are reported to police and vigorously prosecuted. There are more than 1400 signatures on the paper copy, which I will be bringing around shortly, there is also an online version at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/carthft3/ . It's still better if you can sign the paper copy because those are the ones that actually get presented in the legislature. Please sign BOTH the online version, and the paper copy. Also, I would love it if each of you would forward this to as many people as possible. Thank you so much for your time, Kelsey This was the original article on Antonio - link to article and here is a link to the crash from Dec 2009 – link to 2nd article

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1 Year After Car Thief Killed His 2nd Victim