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Monday March 5, 2007
Police botched a chance to capture Hamilton's Most Wanted a week before two teens were stabbed to death and the fugitive was charged in the killings.

A man identifying himself as Corey Rogers called 911 on Feb. 10 and asked the police to come and get him at a Tisdale Avenue North home. That's what regulations say they should do. Instead, the dispatcher asked Rogers "to simply walk to Central Station to turn himself in," according to police documents filed in court.

Rogers never showed up, nor was he at the home an hour later when police called.

One week later, Paul Haggerty, 19, and his friend Lucas Deane, 18, were killed outside a Barton Street bar. Two more young men were also stabbed.

Only hours after the killings, police surrounded the Tisdale house and arrested Rogers on two counts of first- degree murder. Afterward, deputy police Chief Ken Leendertse boasted of "good police work" in making the quick arrest. Source...

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