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b"In the early morning hours of November 17, 2001, officers from the Vancouver Police were dispatched to the Second Beach area of Stanley Park. Several callers to 911 indicated that there had been some kind of \\xa0altercation and a group of man had badly beaten another man.\\n\\nTwo VPD constables arrived at the Second Beach parking lot within minutes of being called to find a distraught man frantically providing CPR to a bloodied man on the ground. The man on the ground was naked except for socks and shoes. Police assessed the man\\u2019s condition and immediately called for an ambulance. The paramedics from the BC Ambulance Service arrived quickly, but determined that it was too late.\\n\\nAaron Zane Donald Webster, 42-year-old and a \\xa0member of Vancouver\\u2019s gay community, was dead. He had been brutally beaten with a blunt instrument and his killers had skittered off into the night leaving Aaron to die. Aaron\\u2019s death would be come to be recognized as Canada\\u2019s most well-known and notorious cases of \\u2018gay bashing\\u2019.\\n\\nGuest Host: Mathew Stockton (Steve the dog's dad)\\n\\nSources:R. v. J.S., 2003 BCPC 442 (CanLII), R. v. A.C., 2003 BCPC 508 (CanLII), R. v. Cran and Rao, 2004 BCSC 1635 (CanLII), R. v. Cran, 2005 BCSC 171 (CanLII), R. v. J.S., 2005 BCPC 556 (CanLII), R. v. Cran, 2006 BCCA 464 (CanLII), [Wright, N. (2011). Murder in the park : civic identity-making and space in Vancouver. University of British Columbia.][Aaron Webster | Xtra Magazine][The murder that changed us | Xtra Magazine][Ten Years After Aaron Webster\\u2019s Death, What\\u2019s Changed? | The Tyee][Stanley Park Rawlings Trail, Gay Vancouver Cruising Areas][Stanley Park | City of Vancouver][Search - Aaron Webster - 2001 - Newspapers.com][Aaron Webster - CHF BC][Aaron Webster Housing Co-operative \\u2013 Original Site \\u2013 Community Land Trust][QMUNITY \\u2014 BC\\u2019s Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Resource Centre][Pflag Canada]\\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"