Suspect in Transit Police shooting has long history of violations
A cash reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of Daon Gordon Glasgow, the subject of an intense police manhunt in connection with the Wednesday shooting of a Transit Police officer.
Glasgow has spent most of his adult life in custody — or being supervised by probation and parole officers — and has consistently performed poorly while in the community.
According to Parole Board of Canada decisions dating back more than a dozen years, Glasgow has a lengthy criminal history with more than 20 offences related to drug dealing, breach of trust and violence — including manslaughter.
“(You) have behaved in a way that suggests you care little for the consequences of your crimes or the conditions placed upon you by the courts, probation or parole,” the board wrote in a pair of 2009 decisions.
Police have been looking for the 35-year-old Glasgow in connection with the shooting of Const. Josh Harms, 27, on the platform of the Scott Road SkyTrain station. Harms, who has been an officer for three years, has been released from hospital and is recovering from gunshot wounds to his arms.
CrimeStoppers announced this weekend it is offering a cash reward for information leading to his arrest. Anonymous tips can made by phone at 1-800-222-8477 or online at solvecrime.ca.
Clashing with the authorities is not unusual for Glasgow who, according to court records, has been known to use the aliases Darrell James Davis and Cornell Gibson.
The parole board decisions, issued over the course of two federal prison sentences, paint Glasgow as a career drug dealer who was attracted to the criminal lifestyle.
Although his offences were initially non-violent, he later progressed to using threats of violence, weapons and physical violence.
“You have absolutely no structure or purpose to your life,” the parole board noted in a 2006 decision to deny an accelerated day parole, for which he was eligible as a first-time, non-violent federal offender serving a 30-month sentence for drug dealing and related crimes.
Before being released on day parole in 2007, Glasgow professed to want to change. He had a two-year gap in his offending, behaved well in prison, had a job lined up and wanted to go back to school.
Glasgow lasted two months before absconding from his halfway house. He was at large for 333 days, until he was found loitering at a transit station and suspected of selling drugs.
“You have violated the most basic condition of community release, which is to be accountable for your whereabouts and activities, in very suspicious circumstances,” the board said, revoking his parole.
He remained in prison until June 2009, when he was given statutory release, automatically granted to most federal prisoners who have served two-thirds of their sentence. Two months later, he failed to show up for a meeting with his parole officer and was at large for 69 days.
Glasgow was later given statutory release again, but three days before his sentence was set to expire on March 30, 2010, he committed his most serious offence. Glasgow shot and killed Terry Blake Scott in the washroom of a Surrey McDonald’s restaurant after a marijuana deal went bad.
In April 2011, he was sentenced to 10 years, minus a year’s credit for time served.
In a decision shortly before his statutory release in December 2016, the board noted he had frequently broken the rules in custody — including becoming “heavily involved” in the drug subculture — and that rule breaking in the community was likely to occur.
The board does not have the power to deny statutory release, but it imposed seven special conditions.
The board’s concerns appeared to have been well founded. After two suspensions, a failed drug test and “ongoing problematic behaviour,” Glasgow’s release was revoked.
In October 2018, the board imposed conditions on Glasgow’s impending statutory release once more.
Three months later, Glasgow stands accused of shooting a police officer.