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“Brian, you know you think you hurt your mother. We just want you to come out and talk about it.”

It was that plea by a police negotiator who identified himself over a megaphone as Eric that stuck in the mind of Barrie Urquhart, a resident of Vancouver’s Dunbar neighbourhood.

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Urquhart recalled Sunday afternoon the details of an eight-hour police standoff that began late Saturday a block from his home and ended just before dawn with Brian Whitlock being taken into custody. Whitlock, 28, was charged later in the day with second degree murder.

In the summer of 2012, Whitlock beat his two-year-old German Shepard, Captain, and left him for dead in a Kitsilano dumpster. Whitlock, then 26, got a 60-day jail sentence and a lifetime ban on owning animals after pleading guilty to animal cruelty in the high-profile case.

Brian, you know you think you hurt your mother. We just want you to come out and talk about it

Police were called to the Dunbar home at 8:30 p.m. Saturday after a relative found a woman’s body, said Const. Brian Montague.