George Elliott Reginald "Reginald" Tippin

1929 - 1988  (59 years)

• Name	George Elliott Reginald "Reginald" Tippin
  Born	13 Jun 1929	, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	suicide, crime, scandal
  Name	Reginald Tippin
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-65287
  Died	29 Nov 1988	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I65287	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	George Elliott Smith Tippin,   b. 22 Apr 1906, Arkwright, Arran Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 14 Feb 1986, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Annie Jeannette Harper,   b. 16 Jul 1910, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 30 Nov 1998, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F13973	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Years before fatal standoff, tombstone warned of revenge By Steve Cannon Record Staff Reg Tippin bought a headstone etched with the words "Revenge Shall Be Mine." more than 15 years before he shot at police and died in a weekend standoff at his Cambridge home. The odd, black stone --- a perfect 13-inch cube --- marks an empty grave in the 'Pippin family plot in the New Hope Cemetery Its macabre message, long a curiosity for neighbourhood children. now reads like a warning. "We asked him once why he put those words on it," Richard Bullock, the lead hand at the Hespeler cemetery, said Monday. All he said was that he planned on taking someone with him when he goes." Tippin's body was found early Sunday in a charred bedroom in the Queen Street home where he lived most of his 69 years and where he died with police at his door. Rob Hughes, the lead investigator for the Special Investigations Unit, said it could he three or four clays before he finishes a report on now Tippin died, or how the fire that destroyed his home was started. The SIU probes any deaths in which police are involved and until its work is done, Waterloo regional police say they cannot comment on the deadly standoff. What is known is that Tippin's mother, Jean, died in September and there were plans to sell the home she had shared with her troubled son as a way to settle her estate. No one is sure yet if the idea of losing his home set Reg Tippin off, though people who knew him doubt it was the sole factor. Neighbours said he had talked about guns and murder for years. "It was only a matter of time," one woman said Monday as she watched investigators comb through the burned-out house clown the street. "We knew this would happen". It began to happen late Saturday afternoon. With a pistol in his hand and an apparent plan on his mind, Tippin made his way to the nearby fish and chips shop run by Elaine Gallant. Gallant spotted Tippin coming and, with an employee, ran into a neighbouring convenience store. Gallant, who was the executor of Jean Tippin's will, locked a wooden door behind her Soon after, Reg Tippin shot two bullets through the door, then apparently retreated to his home. The police arrived soon after. With the power cut to the neighborhood to hide the officers who had surrounded his two-storey home, Tippin fired several shots into the dark. Shortly before midnight, flames could be seen inside the house. Soon after, Tippin was found dead inside. Detectives and investigators with the Ontario Fire Marshal's office worked through the day Monday, scouring the charred house by flash-light. On the front porch, officers used a screen to carefully sift through handfuls of burned debris in a painstaking search for clues. Hughes said he has not yet interviewed officers involved in the stand-off. Nor does he know yet how many he will speak with. "This is kind of a different case," he said. "With the fire marshal here, and all that's gone on, this could take some time."

  
  

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  Born - 13 Jun 1929 - , Ontario, Canada Interesting - suicide, crime, scandal - - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 29 Nov 1988 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth