White Male Young And Disaffected Saanich Bank Robbers Latest In B.C. S Line Of Violent Criminals.

What could have motivated Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie, the dead 22-year-olds from Duncan, BC? Were they killed by the police? Or did they die by suicide? And how did the brothers’ affinity for arms contribute to their action? RCMP are releasing few details as the investigation moves into its second week. But Western University criminologist and author Michael Arntfield says the nature of the crime has telling details. “[The] Militarized bank robbery … is a very rare crime,” Arntfield said. “This is what we call a takeover robbery, which suggests that they were certainly prepared, if not actively, for some kind of shootout with somebody.” On his now-deleted Instagram account, Isaac Auchterlonie celebrated the 24th anniversary of a famous 1997 bank robbery known as the North Hollywood shootout. The post can be seen on YouTube, where someone captured one video browsing of the Instagram account before it was removed. Isaac Auchterlonie’s instagram post on the 24th anniversary of the North Hollywood shootout. (Isaac Auchterlonie/Instagram) Auchterlonie’s post shows video of the prolonged standoff between two heavily armed bank robbers and members of the Los Angeles Police Department. One of the robbers committed suicide. The police killed the other. Twelve officers and eight civilians were injured. Six officers from the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team were injured in the Saanich standoff. Three left in the hospital, one of them in intensive care. “I see striking similarities between them [the Auchterlonies] case and the Bank of America shooting in North Hollywood in 1997,” Arntfeld said. “Similar equipment, similar kind of readiness to go out in a blaze of glory and shoot as many cops as possible.” Comparisons can also be made to other high-profile cases of gun violence in British Columbia, if only because the perpetrators were all young, white and apparently frustrated men. Like Ryan Granthamthe actor who is currently being sentenced in the BC Supreme Court. for second-degree murder, the Auchterlonies had an affinity for guns and a hatred of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Isaac Auchterlonie’s Instagram account was full of gun photos, war reports and videos of him and his camouflaged brother shooting rifles in the woods. There are also plenty of pro-gun, anti-Trudeau posts with hashtags like #tryandtaketheguns, #liberalsmakingCanadaNaziGermany and #f—youtrudeau. Isaac and Mathew Auchterlonie’s graduation photo was posted on Isaac’s Instagram account. (Isaac Auchterlonie/Instagram) Grantham was 21 when he shot his mother in the back of the head while she was playing the piano in their Squamish mansion. To him sentencing hearing last month, the court heard how the matricide was the prelude to plans to kill Trudeau and commit mass violence. The day after the assassination, Grantham packed his car with guns, Molotov cocktails and a map to the prime minister’s Rideau Cottage residence in Ottawa and started driving east. Improvised explosive devices were also found in Auchterlonies’ car, according to police, who declined to elaborate. Parallels also exist in the northern B.C. highway killings case. in 2019 that took the country by storm in a manhunt for two teenagers from Port Alberni, B.C. Like the Auchterlonies, longtime friends Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, aged 18 and 19 respectively, acted together when they shot and killed three people. The pair were eventually located in northern Manitoba, where they were found dead in an apparent suicide. Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky appeared on RCMP alerts after becoming suspects in the 2019 murders of three people in northern BC. (RCMP) Ardfield said that while there are similarities in the perpetrators, the crimes in all three cases are significantly different. “We have a common theme of disillusioned, young, white males prone to violence. But these are actually three different, very distinct typologies of offenders,” he said. According to Arntfield, the Auchterlonies’ bad heist contrasts with Schmegelsky and McLeod, whom he categorizes as serial killers. Grantham, he said, fits the profile of a disgruntled citizen offender whose focus on the prime minister has commonalities with Nova Scotia mass murderer Gabriel Wortman. “[Grantham] he’s a would-be killer, basically, who has some common characteristics of mass shooters,” Ardfield said. “Trudeau has been involved in many high-profile crimes. Wortman’s descent into the madness that hit the East Coast violence was his understanding that Trudeau’s lockdown measures were a pretext for nationalizing his bank accounts and taking people’s money. .. It’s not uncommon for these guys to hit home runs first.” Police are asking for the public’s help in locating the white, four-door 1992 Toyota Camry with black racing stripes on the hood and roof in the days leading up to the bank robbery. (Submitted by the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit) A portrait of who Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie were has been slow to appear. Originally described as twins, it is now known that they have a triplet sister. Former acquaintances have described the brothers as “nice” and “shy”.
Sometime after graduating high school, Mathew Auchterlonie applied to join the military but was rejected after failing the Canadian Forces aptitude test, according to the Department of National Defence. Isaac Auchterlonie never applied to join the military, but completed a Soldier for a Day course in 2018, which gives participants a basic introduction to the Canadian armed forces. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Alex Bérubé said investigators are focusing only on the brothers as suspects and are particularly interested in locating the white 1992 Toyota Camry in the days leading up to the bank robbery.