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A heat­ed dis­pute es­ca­lat­ed in­to fa­tal gun­fire as 30-year-old Nichol­son Bowen, al­so known as “Bal­co”, was shot and killed near his home in Lendore Vil­lage on Fri­day evening.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Bowen was in­volved in an al­ter­ca­tion with a group of young men from the area on Thurs­day. The ten­sion reignit­ed the fol­low­ing day around 5 pm, lead­ing to an­oth­er con­fronta­tion. Bowen lat­er re­turned home but, around 5:30 pm, stepped out­side on­to the road­way, where gun­fire erupt­ed mo­ments lat­er.

First re­spon­ders from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force North ar­rived at the scene at 5:40 p.m., find­ing Bowen’s mo­tion­less body on the north­ern side of the road­way. He was clad in black three-quar­ter pants and shirt­less, with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds. Sev­en­teen spent 9mm shell cas­ings, and a pro­jec­tile was re­cov­ered at the scene.