The Burnaby RCMP officer killed in the line of duty Tuesday has been identified as a 31-year-old member of the detachment’s mental health and homeless outreach team, just three years into her career.
Const. Shaelyn Yang was fatally stabbed while partnered with a City of Burnaby parks worker and attending a homeless campsite at Broadview Park just before 11 a.m. “She was a loving wife, a sister and daughter.
Those she worked with before joining the RCMP and her police colleagues described Const. Yang as a kind and compassionate person, which makes her death even more difficult to accept,” Dept.
Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commanding officer of the BC RCMP, said Tuesday. McDonald said Yang was stabbed following an “altercation” during the call, and that despite the efforts of first responders she died in hospital.