Vancouver father Brad Deering, 42, and three others were inside his gated community home in San Jose in Costa Rica on Thursday morning, when three men stormed the house, shot and killed Deering and tied up the others. A local private investigator believes the killing was a targeted hit. The PI believes Deering was selling 'futures.'
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A father from Vancouver shot dead in his Costa Rican home appears to be the victim of a targeted hit, according to a local private investigator.
Brad Deering, 42, and three others were inside his gated community home in San Jose Thursday morning, when three men stormed the house, shot and killed Deering and tied up the others.
According to a Costa Rica private investigator, Douglas Smith, local police are calling the attack a home invasion, but “that doesn’t make sense.”
“This wasn’t a household robbery this was a hit,” Smith said from his office in Costa Rica. “They had one intention and one intention alone of capping him.”
While Smith isn’t investigating the case, he was made aware of the slaying by close friends of Deering.
According to Smith, three men dressed as security personnel fooled a guard outside Deering’s home into letting them in by claiming they were they to fix an alarm system.
They tied up the guard, crashed Deering’s home, tied up three of the four people inside while Deering tried to escape, but the intruders ultimately shot Deering three times.
“A home invasion usually is at night and they crash the doors, crash the gates and ... most of the time in home invasions they wait for people not to be there,” said Smith. “In this case they went in prepared, tied people up in broad daylight.”
“It doesn’t measure up as a home invasion.”
According to Smith, Deering “sold futures” in Costa Rica — which is unregulated and a dangerous business in that country.
“Buying futures as an investment is the most dangerous, most speculative investment you can possibly do,” he said. “Buying them from any broker in Costa Rica you’re playing in the twilight zone.”
Smith speculates that someone targeted Deering because they either lost money in a deal with him, or simply because his wealth was known, as he owned three fancy cars and lived in a high-end home.
“He had all the toys in the world,” said Smith. “He made himself a target in Costa Rica.”
But according to Smith, those who knew Deering had “nothing but nice things” to say about him. He also had a young daughter around 4-years-old from a previous marriage.
The Canadian consulate did not respond to media requests for information by deadline, but since Deering’s murder an advisory warning to “exercise a high degree of caution” when travelling to Costa Rica was posted on a Government of Canada travel website.
“There is no nationwide advisory for Costa Rica. However, you should exercise a high degree of caution and be vigilant at all times due to increasing levels of violent crime,” the advisory reads.
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