Secrecy over names in Island homicides raises alarm

It’s been five days since a man died following a police shooting at the Departure Bay ferry terminal in Nanaimo.
We know from the RCMP that the victim was a suspect in a carjacking in Penticton and a shooting in Vernon, and that officers tried to arrest him as he drove off the ferry on Tuesday morning.
But, beyond that, we know very little about the man.
We don’t know his name, age, where he’s from or how he lived his life.
That’s because the RCMP, B.C. Coroners Service a