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Lower Mainland Murders 2012

Lower Mainland Murders 2011

     

Biker killed

MONTREAL - Stéphane Bélanger, alias Bedo, was past member of the Rowdy Crew, a former farm team of the Hells Angels who had set up shop in Laval.  According to our sources, Bélanger was very close to members in good standing of the Hells Angels chapter in Trois-Rivières.  (Journal de Montreal)   MORE:  Possible getaway car found   Victim identified   Man shot   Shooting

 

Construction head killed

SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD- Police believe two suspects tied up Serge Loiselle, 57, and his wife at their home.   (CBC)   MORE:  Construction owner dies   Contractor beaten to death   Contractor killed

 

Murder charge

PRINCETON - Gisele Duckham, 56, was found shot to death inside her house in a rural area north of Princeton on Nov 8.  63-year-old Robert Badour - has been charged with first-degree murder. (CTV)   MORE:  Dangerous offender charged   Sex offender charged   Suspicious death   Death treated as suspicious

 

Victims identified

MONTREAL - The 2nd man who died in a brutal apartment arson in St Henri Friday has been identified.  He is 27-year-old Montrealer Einick Gitelman.  The other victim was previously identified as 29-year-old hip-hop promoter Matt Dutch Garner.  (CTV)   MORE:  2nd victim identified   Victim named   Apt set on fire    Targeted hit   Arson attack

 

Truck seized

FOURNIER -  Jessica Godin's body was found near Du Parc Street in Fournier on Sept 24.  Police believe Godin was the victim of a hit and run.   (CTV)     MORE:  OPP seize truck   Body found   Violent death     Body found

 

Suspect known to police

CALGARY - On Friday, Nov 4, police were called to a home in the 3600-block of 39 St NE.   When officers arrived they found the body of 45-year-old Cherry Lotus Ledesma inside the residence.  Gregory Sanders Houle, 44, of Calgary, is charged with second degree murder.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Man accused   Man charged with wife's death

 

Man charged

PARADISE HILL - A man is facing a charge of second-degree murder in the death of a 13-month-old boy last week.  RCMP found the child unconscious and not breathing when police responded to a 911 call from a home in Paradise Hill near Lloydminster on Nov 1.  Allen Charles Davidson, 38, has been charged.  (CTV)

 

Domestic homicide

HAMILTON - Police are investigating a domestic homicide that took the life of a 51-year-old woman inside the family’s home early Saturday.   The woman’s husband, 54, was found with serious life-threatening injuries and died in hospital less than two hours after police responded to the house at the south-east corner of Cannon St E and Victoria Ave N.   Friends of the couple identified the wife as Xuyen Tran and her husband as Hiep Huynh.  (Hamilton Spectator)  PREVIOUS:  Possible murder-suicide

Stepson faces murder charge

SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU - Pierre Pépin, 31, has been charged following the knife slaying of Marc Richer, his 46-year-old stepdad.   (Montreal Gazette)  PREVIOUS:  Stabbing  

 

Guilty plea

BRAMPTON - Mandeep Rai pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death, obstructing justice and breach of an undertaking.  In September 2009, Doris Byrne, 88, was killed when the car she was in with her daughter was slammed by Rai's SUV while stopped at a red light on Dixie Road in Brampton.  (CTV)   MORE:  Man pleads guilty

 

Vigil for man found dead

CALEDON - Devinder Kumar, 38, was discovered on The Gore Rd north of Mayfield Rd around 11:30am.   Marlon Nurse, 29, and Darryl Plummer, 25, have each been charged with first degree murder. (CityNews)  PREVIOUS:  2 charged    'Good family man'   Arrest made after body found  

 

Criminal history

OTTAWA - The man shot and killed outside his 58 Charleston St home is the same one who was convicted of multiple crimes dating back at least 15 years.  Khamsouriya Eric Vongviset was identified by police as the victim.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Shooting death   Man dies  

 

Police seize 2nd car

HEATHBELL - Police seized a 2002 Chev Impala in New Glasgow on Monday, and while they haven't said who owns the car, area residents say it belongs to Christopher Falconer, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of cab driver Robert LeBlanc in 1998.   (CTV)   MORE:  Convicted murderer violates parole   House sealed off   Kirwan homicide timeline

 

Senior charged

GRANDE PRAIRIE - A 56-year-old victim was discovered at a home in the Meadowview Trailer Court. A 69-year-old man was arrested at the scene and remains in police custody.  Nicolas Greco has been charged with one count of first-degree murder.  (Edmonton Journal)   MORE:  Murder charge    Suspicious death

 

Deaths ruled homicides

LONGUELUIL - The bodies of Francis Dupont, 48, and his 23-year-old son were discovered in an apartment above the Taschereau Blvd club by the building's custodian.   (CBC)   MORE:  Homicides   Deaths were homicides   2 found dead   Double homicide

 

Men charged

TORONTO - Jefflin Beals, 25, of Dartmouth, NS, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Oct. 2 near Trinity-Bellwoods Park.  Darnell St Clair Wright, 32, was charged with first-degree murder.  Brittney Carvery, 21, Sanderico Beals, 25, and Roslyn Bascom, 27, were each charged with accessory after fact to murder.  (CityNews)   MORE:  Police arrest 4    Victim had been a drive-by target   Victim identified   Man shot

 

Stabbed during party

SASKATOON - Chantelle Cathcart, 23, died in hospital after she was stabbed at an apartment.  Michelle Florence Merasty, 20, has been charged with second degree murder.  (CBC)  PREVIOUS:  Woman charged   Stabbing

   

Victim dies

MOOSE JAW - Donna Acton, 66, was found injured in a home on the 1000-block of Hopkins Crescent on Oct 10.  Moose Jaw Police said she died on Oct 29.  William Akins, 58, was charged with aggravated assault following the initial injury and released on a number of conditions.  (CTV)   MORE:  Woman dies   Woman named

3 youths charged

TORONTO -  On Oct 14, 19-year-old Bradley Matheson of Toronto suffered at least one gunshot wound and died in the stairwell of a building on Eastdale Ave.   Two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old boy were each charged with second degree murder.   (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Appeal for info   19-year-old shot dead   Teen shot   Shooting  

     

'Important witness'

LONGUEUIL - A 34-year-old man was taken into police custody in connection with the death of a woman and her daughter.  Friends identified the woman in her 30s as Emmanuelle Phaneuf and her 13-year-old girl as Laurie. They were found dead in a Beauharnois St apartment.   (CTV)    MORE:  Case of jealousy?   Family drama   Stabbings   Charged    2 slain   Suspicious deaths

Mistrial

MONTREAL - Just over a week into the process, a mistrial was declared Wednesday in the case of alleged cabbie-killer Nigel John because his defence lawyer is off for least two months for personal and medical reasons. (Montreal Gazette)   PREVIOUS:  Arrest made   Victim may be missing taxi driver   Lawyer beaten   Montreal lawyer beaten   Assault shocks legal community   

 
     

Youth sentenced

IQALUIT - An 18-year-old in Nunavut convicted of murder has received the most serious youth sentencing option available under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.  Justice Sue Cooper granted an Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision order for the teen, who pleaded guilty in September to shooting 27-year old Lucassie Emikotailuk inside the victim’s home in Sanikiluaq last year.  (CBC)

Man turns himself in

FLIN FLON - On Nov 1, a man went into the Flin Flon RCMP detachment and told officers he had committed a murder.  Officers then went to a room at the Royal Hotel in Flin Flon where a woman was found dead.   The woman has been identified as Raylene Dawn Grant, 21, of Flin Flon.  James Noel Desmarais, 44, of Flin Flon has been charged with second-degree murder.   (CTV)   MORE:  Man confesses to murder

 
     

7 years

VICTORIA - BC Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston sentenced Lucas Ian Brown, 26, to 5 years for criminal negligence causing the death of Martha Ralph, 56, and 5 years for criminal negligence causing the death of her partner Lawrence Machnee, 59.   (Victoria Times Colonist)

Hit-and-run arrest

CALGARY - Faiza Ali Mohamud, 22, was hit when she was crossing MacLeod Trail on Friday night.  The driver of the Jeep that hit her left her for dead in the street.  Mohamud was taken to hospital but died a few days later.  (CTV)   MORE:  Suspect caught   Family mourns   Hit-and-run  

 
     

Mom pleads guilty

SASKATOON - Charissima McDonald, 29,   admitted that she neglected her daughter, Shatoya Chatelaine, until the girl died in December 2006.  (CBC)   MORE:  Mother pleads guilty

Victim identified

BROOKS - Nana Prempeh, 26, of Brooks was killed by a gunshot early in the morning in the area of 9 St E & Sutherland Drive.   (Beacon News)  MORE:  Shooting

 
     

Arrest made

HAMILTON - Scott Patrick Keels of no fixed address has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 47-year-old James Surette.  Surette was found dead on a downtown sidewalk on the night of June 5, 2006.  (CP)   MORE:  Arrest in 2006 homicide

Victim identified

BRANDON - Crystal Elk, 37, died trying to help her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law lived with Cameron Douglas Burnett, the man now charged with second-degree murder for Crystal's death. (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   2nd degree charge   Man charged

 
     

Death now a homicide

TORONTO - Officers discovered the body of Patrick Walters, 55, in a parking lot on Exbury Rd around 11am.  The cause of death was multiple injuries associated with a fall.  (CityNews)   MORE:  Fall now deemed a homicide   Fall deemed murder

Victim identified

WINNIPEG - Oudy Phrakonekham, 20, was inside a Ford Explorer with several other people near Rorie St and McDermot Ave when he was shot from outside the vehicle around 2:30am.   He later died in hospital.  (CBC) PREVIOUS:  Shooting

 
     

Victim identified

CALGARY - Ann Rose Gramlich, 53, died as a result of blunt force trauma.  Diane Ruby Palmantier, 38, is charged with first-degree murder.  (CTV)   MORE:   Homicide victim identified    Woman charged  

Murder charges

FORT ALEXANDER – RCMP identified the victim as Eugene Robert Fontaine, 41.  Nicholas Abraham, 22, and Jonathon Starr, 28, from Sagkeeng First Nation were arrested and charged with second-degree murder.  (CTV)

 
     

Homicide rate down in 2010

Canada's homicide rate has dipped to its lowest level since 1966.  (CTV)  REPORT:  Homicide in Canada 2010   Fewer BC killings in 2010

Victim identified

WINNIPEG - Family  said Omar Ali was found shot in the parking lot of the Lincoln Hotel on McPhillips St.  Ali was rushed to hospital but later died.  (CTV)

 
     

8 years

REGINA - Lance Gibson had previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing Guy Lenius.  Lenius was discovered dead in a bedroom on April 15, 2006.  (CBC)   MORE:  Sentenced for killing roommate

2 charged

GLENDON - Jesse Brendan Miller was found dead in front of the Glendon Hotel around 1:15am.  Edgar Kenneth Milnthorp, 21, and Shannon John Burshtinski, 37, are both charged with second-degree-murder.  (Journal)

 
     

'Nice' neighbor

The man sitting in front of Mary Ellen O'Toole was, she says, a well-mannered guy. “He was low-key. He was nice. He didn’t swear.” He was very proud of his work, which he described in polite, pleasant tones.  His name was Gary Ridgway. His other name was the Green River Killer.  (Washington Post)

Investigation

TRENTON - Police are on the hunt for a shooter after 44-year-old Eddie Phalen was shot in front of his house in Trenton, NS.  Police were called to 22 Mechanic St at about 8pm after a 911 caller reported shots in the area.  (CBC)     MORE:  Residents shaken   Shooting   Homicide   Man dead  NG News 

 
     

2 charged

LETHBRIDGE - Christopher James Ballendine, 47, died from a "blunt force trauma to his upper body."  Kerry Alan Zeller, 53,  is charged with second-degree murder and Terry Christopher Bissonnette, 51, is facing a manslaughter charge.  (CJOC)  PREVIOUS:  Homicide   Cops probe death

Teen charged

SPRINGHILL - Zachary Quinn Brake, 18,  turned himself in to police.  The Crown has confirmed the victim, 37-year-old Tracy Ann Rudderham, is Brake's mother and that he had been living with her in the home. (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Son charged   Woman found dead

 
     

Victim dies

THUNDER BAY - Jimmy Robert Monias, 21, died of his injuries in the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. Kyle Ivan Rae, 22, was initially charged with Aggravated Assault. Thunder Bay Police advise that that charge will be upgraded.  (NetNewsledger)   MORE:  Assault victim dies   Aboriginal homicides not about race

Babysitter charged

CRANBROOK - A 28-year-old babysitter has been charged with second-degree murder after a 19-month-old girl drowned while in the woman's care.  Iyanna Teeple, of Cranbrook, BC, died in a Calgary hospital in May. Tammy Marion Bouvette is charged with second-degree murder.  (QMI)  MORE:  2nd degree murder   Charge in toddler's death

 
     

Witness protection

VANCOUVER - Kosto Barjaktarovic was once a high-flying Vancouver car thief who admitted his role in two gangland slayings at the trial of the late Bindy Johal.  Sixteen years later, it is Barjaktarovic’s murder that police in Ontario are actively investigating.   (Vancouver Sun) 

 

Second identity    

Cop accused of perjury  

Victim identified  

Apparent drive-by  

Neighbours shocked   

Gangs

 

 
     

Mystery lingers

LONDON, ON - In a traditional cultural tribute, a plate of fruit, a bowl of rice and bunches of flowers honour 40-year-old Thi Tran.  Members of the Peel Regional Police gang unit nabbed Denzel Borden in Mississauga.  (London Free Press)  MORE:  Homicide

Funeral

SPRUCE GROVE - Police found Jolene Cote's body after they responded to a 911 call at a rural home near Spruce Grove around 6:10am on Oct 13th.  (CBC)  MORE:  Memorial  Questions   Homicide  RCMP investigating   Death under investigation

 
     

Long extradition process

VANCOUVER - The arrest of two Canadian residents in the killing of a BC woman in India 11 years ago is being hailed as a significant development, but a long-time observer of the case says extraditing the new suspects to the country where the crime was committed will likely be a long and difficult process.  (CityNews)   

Jaswinder 'Jassi' Kaur Sidhu

Widower lives in fear  

Arrest in honour killing  

Finally  

Mother, uncle charged  

RCMP release  

Escape from justice   

Justice for Jassi  

Still no justice   

7 get life term for murder   

Murdered Bride  

 
     

Man charged

MONTREAL - Rene Gagne, 43, did not enter a plea when he appeared in court charged with second-degree murder in the death of Daniel Forgues, 59.  (CBC)

MORE:  Dispute among neighbours   Stabbing

Homicide

IQALUIT - Nunavut RCMP launched a homicide investigation in the early morning hours of Oct. 22, after Sangani Osuitok, 50, died at the Qikiqtani General Hospital.  (Nunatsiaq News)    MORE:  Possible homicide

 
     

Mother charged

CHELSEA - The mother of 7-year-old Sophie Fitzpatrick has been charged with murder following the girl's death Saturday.  Catherine Dufresne, who is in hospital under police guard, was arrested and charged Sunday.  (Montreal Gazette)   MORE:  Woman charged   Girl dies  

Victim identified

TORONTO - Nigel Caine, 20, was found suffering from gunshot wounds on the front lawn of a home on Monet Ave near Rathburn Road and Highway 427 just after midnight on Friday.  Caine died of his injuries in hospital. (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Double shooting   Shooting leaves 1 dead

 
     

Manslaughter charge

GATINEAU - Police allege that Korey Perry, 19, of Pontiac, Que, stole a pumpkin worth $2.99 from a closed IGA grocery store in Aylmer, Que., on Sept. 29.  Paul Hines, who was biking with his wife nearby, allegedly spotted Perry and another male and chased them down.  When Hines told them to leave the pumpkins alone they turned on him.  (Toronto Star)   PREVIOUS:   Funeral set   Man dies after theft

3rd man charged

MINDEN -.  Raphael Guerra, 25, was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder.  Ryan Kennedy, 21, and another man were injured during the break-in at a home on South Lake Road near the town of Minden Hills.  Kennedy was pronounced dead at the Minden hospital.  Two other Toronto men, Tin Wai Hong, 27, and Mason Gillard-Gatza, 19, were charged on Thursday.  (CP)  PREVIOUS:   2 arrested   Home invasion

 
     

Charges laid

GRANDE PRAIRIE - Matt Deller, 16, Tanner Hildebrand, 15, Vincent Stover, 16, and Walter Borden-Wilkens, 15 were killed when the car they were in was struck by an allegedly impaired driver early Oct 22.  Zak Judd, 15, has been placed in a medically-induced comma after he sustained head injuries in the crash.  Brendan Holubowich, 21, has been charged.  (CTV)   MORE:  Victims identified   Crash   Charges laid   Man charged with impaired driving

Guilty verdicts

CALGARY - Nathan Zucheratto and Michael Roberto have each been found guilty on three counts of first degree murder in the 2009 New Year's Day massacre.  The trial lasted four weeks but it took the jury less than eight hours to convict the men of killing intended targets Sangeev Mann and Aaron Bendle. A third victim, Keni Su'a was an innocent bystander.   (CTV)   MORE:  Guilty  Defendants found guilty   Bolsa Restaurant shooting trial

 
     

6 years

EDMONTON - After she was found guilty for the second time in the death of a foster child in her care in 2007, Lily Choy has been sentenced to 6 years in prison.  Last month, she was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a three-year-old boy she was caring for in January 2007.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Guilty   Foster mom found guilty  Child had bruises on body

Charges

HALIFAX - A Halifax man is facing 19 charges, including impaired driving, in connection with a fatal collision last month.  Investigators say a southbound vehicle struck a northbound taxi, resulting in the death of 67-year-old Ward Robinson, who was a passenger in the taxi.  Police arrested 34-year-old Drew William MacPherson, the driver of the southbound vehicle.  (CTV)

 
     

Arrest made

WINNIPEG - Police have made an arrest after a 24-year-old woman was found dead behind a vacant building in the 700-block of Main St on August 27, 2011.  Police say 36-year-old Max Maurice Richard has been charged with second degree murder for his alleged involvement in 24-year-old April Helen Hornbrook's death.   (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Woman slain   Police ID woman   Suspicious death

Young face of gang war

WINNIPEG - He's just a kid. He's also an accused killer.  Winnipeg's street-gang war took another tragic turn this week when police announced a 14-year-old boy is the suspected shooter in the city's 32nd homicide of 2011.  David Michael Vincett, 20, was gunned down while walking on the city's Boyd Ave around 3am.  (PostMedia) PREVIOUS:   Victim identified   14-year-old charged   Teen charged  

 
     

'Poster for the death penalty'

PICTON - “He didn't show a bit of remorse,” spat Justice Richard Byers, moments before sentencing Dean Brown to life imprisonment for each of the three convictions, including the shotgun killings of Tracy Hannah, 46, and her daughter Whitney Hannah, 13.   (QMI)   MORE:   25 years  Guilty   Brown found guilty    Suspect on the stand   Community mourns    Family seeks privacy

Arrest made

ST. CATHARINES - Police arrested 23-year-old Michael Latham of Welland in connection with the 2008 death of Pierre Repper, a resident of Quebec.  24-year-old Shawn Monger of Welland and Sebastien Hebert of Chateauguay, Que., who were initially charged in June 2010, are now charged with first-degree murder.   (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Body identified  

 
     

Guilty verdict

WINNIPEG -  43-year-old Ivan Radocaj was beaten to death inside his Interlake home in September 2007.  Radocaj's ex-wife Melody Sanford admitted to police she had planned his death.  Sanford's friend Rita Cushnie and Cushnie's son Donald Richard were also convicted of the same charges.  (CTV)   MORE:  3 guilty

No new trial

OTTAWA - In an 8-1 decision, the high court rejected an appeals court ruling that would have put Armande Cote on trial for a second time in the death of Andre Hogue.  The 63-year-old was shot in the head in his home in Pierreville on July 22, 2006.  (QMI)   MORE:  2011 SCC 46   Rights violated   SCC restores acquittal

 
     

Victims identified

KITIMAT - Maria (Teresa) Rego, 47, was found seriously injured early Sunday morning after police received a report of a stabbing and break-and-enter at a Kitimat home. Her husband, 46-year-old Gualter Manuel Rego, was also severely injured. (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Fatal attack   1 dead   Woman dead after B&E

Victim named

EDMONTON - Nakoa Thomas life ended on an empty north Edmonton street Thursday night, when he was shot dead in an alley.  The shooting happened just before midnight in the Balwin neighbourhood near 131st Ave & 69th St.  He died at the scene.  (Edmonton Journal)   PREVIOUS:  Suspicious death

 
     

Murder charge after standoff

ST JOHN’S - Trevor Pardy, 34, was charged and held for a psychiatric assessment in a St. John's hospital. Pardy is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman, 30, who was found lying on Boggy Hall Place around 1am Saturday.  (CBC)

Charges

OTTAWA - Police have charged 26-year-old Maxime Morin-Leblanc with criminal negligence, failure to provide a breath sample and driving impaired.   The woman, 27, died on arrival at the hospital.  (CTV)   MORE:  Woman killed by wrong-way driver

 
     

Slain dad

LONDON, ON - David Arbuckle, 20, was trying to move his life in a new direction.  Arbuckle’s young life was ended in a shooting on Wellington St.  The shooter and another man fled the scene and are still sought by police.  (London Free Press)   MORE:  Victim leaves message with 911

Manslaughter charge

ASHCROFT - RCMP investigators were called to the hospital on Tuesday night after Lorne Wilf Strikes-With-a-Gun died.  Brandon Edward Knife surrendered himself and was charged with manslaughter.  (Vancouver Province)  MORE:  Bonaparte First Nation

 
     

Twin charged

THETFORD MINES - Daniel Goulet was at the wheel when his truck went off the road on July 3.  Francis Goulet was ejected and killed.  (QMI)

Victim was a suspect

TORONTO - Dane Dillon, 27, was shot outside a housing complex on Parma Court just after 11pm.  (Toronto Star)  PREVIOUS:  Shooting   Man shot

 
     

Victim identified

TORONTO - Christopher Rookwood, 20, was found inside a townhouse on Tobermory Drive.  He had been shot in the chest, and paramedics pronounced him dead soon after.  (CityNews)   MORE:  Man shot dead   Man shot 

Man charged

OTTAWA - Charges have finally been laid 24 years after the mysterious murder of a Quebec woman.  Cops arrested 58-year-old Roger Lepage, who appeared in court on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Marie d'Amour.  (QMI)

 
     

Man walks into police station

MONTREAL - Montreal police have arrested a man who walked into a police station overnight and said he was a suspect in the 28th homicide of the year.  Police say the attack took place on  Sept 18 in St. Michel, when two men got into a fight and one pulled out a knife.  Jean-Louis Pascal is expected to face second degree murder charges.  (CTV)

Cold case arrest

DAWSON CREEK - Earl Dean Jones was killed by a gunshot wound along a highway south of Dawson Creek on Sept. 25, 1981 after spending the evening with his wife at a cabaret.  Crown counsel approved a charge of first-degree murder against 60-year-old Thomas Anthony McDonald on Thursday. (CTV)   MORE:  RCMP make arrest   Charge in 1981 murder

 
     

Victims identified

EDMONTON - The bodies of Trevor Greenway, 26, and Jason Trundle, 36, were found inside a bullet-riddled black SUV found parked in an isolated south Edmonton graveyard early on Tuesday morning.  (Edmonton Journal)   MORE:  Homicide victims  Suspicious deaths

Publication ban lifted

EDMONTON - Delonna Sullivan's mother, Jamie Sullivan, says she went to court so she could tell the world what happened to her daughter.  The infant died April 11 in an Edmonton hospital, 6 days after she was taken by the province and put in foster care.  (CP)

 
     

Death a homicide

EDMONTON - Daniel Charles Hamer, 35, died Saturday in the Parkdale neighbourhood after police were called to an assault near 117 Ave and 86th St about 3:30am.  (Edmonton Journal)  PREVIOUS:  Suspicious death   'Crack shack' death   Homicide probe   Assault

Missing woman found dead

FORT SASKATCHEWAN - The body of Dana Turner, 31, was found in an empty field near Innisfail.  Mark Lindsay, 24, is currently in custody in BC after being arrested near Kamloops on Sept 21 for robbery.  (Edmonton Journal)   MORE:  Body located

 
     

Gun control, homicide rates

Criminal record checks, 28-day waiting periods, the long-gun registry: not one of these measures has done anything to stem Canadian firearm homicide rates, according to a new study.  (PostMedia)

Man identified

MEADOW LAKE - RCMP have identified a man who was found dead in Meadow Lake.  Officers found the body of 83-year-old Robert Harris Foster at a home in the 400-block of Third Ave W.  (CTV)

 
     

4 counts of murder

TORONTO - The investigation connected the deaths of 4 Toronto men - Jahmeel Spence, Courtney Facey, Mike James and Carl Cole - to a series of robberies and shootings.  The suspect has been in police custody since March 2011, when he was arrested in connection to a shooting inside a downtown nightclub.  Mark Garfield Moore, 27, of Toronto has been charged.   (CTV)  

 

’Evil man’  

Man charged  

Rapper charged  

Accused Toronto serial killer  

Shooting at family BBQ  

Victims identified  

Police identify victim

 

 
     

No forensic evidence

EDMONTON - No forensic evidence - no blood, DNA, fingerprints or gunshot residue - was ever found to tie two teenage runaways to a pair of gruesome murders on a Strathcona County acreage, according to newly released court documents.   (Edmonton Journal) 

 

RCMP lacked evidence  

Strathcona County double homicide  

Family suing  

Charges dropped   

Shocking development  

'They look like little kids'  

 
     

Aunt set up for failure

EDMONTON - A woman who killed the 4-year-old niece in her care was never an appropriate choice as a caregiver for 6 troubled children and was abandoned by the Alberta government, a psychologist testified.  (PostMedia)  

Province must share blame   

Family sues kinship care  

Victim cannot be named  

Foster mom pleads guilty

AB Children & Youth Services placement

Death of a 4-year-old girl  

 
     

Man charged

CHITEK LAKE - Spiritwood RCMP were called to an altercation at the hotel around 1:30pm on Saturday.  Upon arrival, they found the body of 46-year-old Jones Thomas, also from the Pelican Lake First Nation.  Police have charged Frederick Charles Harris, 38, with manslaughter.   (CBC)  MORE:  Sudden death 

Shotgun owner charged

FERNIE - 17-year-old Michael Voth of Fernie was instantly killed by a single shotgun blast on June 16 after a younger boy picked up the loaded firearm and inadvertently pulled the trigger.  51-year-old George Lewis Phillips  has now been charged with criminal negligence causing death and careless storage of a firearm.  (CTV)

 
     

Victim identified

CALGARY - Police were called to a report of shots fired in front of a bar in the 800-block of 16 Ave SW on Sunday, at 4:30am.  Officers found, Mead Abdillahi Ousman, 22, lying on the sidewalk when they arrived.  (CTV)  MORE:  After-hours bar shooting

Name released

MISSISSAUGA - Niyati Jha died at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children on Sept 21.  The homicide squad and the special victims unit are investigating.  (CityNews)  PREVIOUS:  Homicide probe   Homicide investigating   Suspicious child death

 
     

Brother charged

CAMPBELL RIVER - Tony Wilfred Williams, 18, has been charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of his brother, Edison James Thomas, 33, at a Mo Road home.  (Campbell River Courier-Islander)   PREVIOUS:  Brother arrested   Man dead, brother in custody

Acquitted

GUELPH - Cory Armishaw, 26, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jayden Lindeman in November 2006.  Justice Kenneth Langdon said that any confession from Armishaw was inadmissible because police repeatedly ignored Armishaw's desire to remain silent.  (CP)

 
     

Man charged

EDMONTON - Kyle Joy-Trussert, 23, died after being shot at an apartment at 177th St and 81st Ave about 2:30am Saturday. Police said he was found lying on the floor outside the apartment he shared with Steven Laflamme.  (Edmonton Journal)   MORE:  Man charged with roommate's death   Roommate charged   Charges laid

Suspicious blaze  

MARKHAM - The 42-year-old mother of two teenagers died in the garage on Kentland St.  The woman’s 48-year-old husband died at Sunnybrook hospital on Friday morning.  Records showed the house owned by Krishan and Anupma Misra.  (Toronto Star)  MORE:  Fire a murder investigation   Husband & wife dead

 
     

Body found

JERSEY CITY - Randy Lehrer's mother  told CBC News that police in Jersey City found her daughter's body at the apartment she shared with her husband. The body was stuffed into a 55-gallon oil drum and encased in concrete.  (CBC)   MORE:   Husband charged   Oil drum contained remains  

  Police dig up clues

MONTREAL - Officers set up a large-scale search operation at a pig farm in Saint Valerien de Milton last week for what will be a slow, meticulous search for evidence.  Diane Gregoire was last seen on Jan. 31, 2008 by her husband, Paul Laplante.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Police search   Homicide 

 
     

Suspect turns himself in

MONTREAL - Pascal Louis Jean, 29, turned himself in to police.  On Sept 18 Montreal police found the victim, 24, with multiple stab wounds near 2nd Ave and Jean Rivard St in St. Michel.  (Montreal Gazette)  MORE:  Suspect arrested   Stabbing   Man stabbed

Homicide

CALGARY - Police were called to the 1100-block of Taradale Drive NE at about 3:00am to respond to a report of a disturbance.  The injured man, Ben John Ongera, 26, died a short time later.  Joseph Makuac Kuol, 28, is charged with second degree murder.  (CTV)  

 
     

Granddaughter charged

WINNIPEG - Rahami Sacranie, 84, was found beaten inside a home on Pine Bluff Rd.  Sahar Sacranie, 19, has been charged with second-degree murder.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Body found

Victim identified

TORONTO - A 48-year-old Toronto man has died after a shooting in Scarborough.  He was identified as Evrod (Rockfort) Gordon.  (CityNews)   MORE:  Police probe shooting  

 
     

Autopsy results

EDMONTON - The victim has been identified as 27-year-old Chrysostom Caragay Marquez, and the Medical Examiner has ruled he was killed by a stab wound.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Fight death

Fall suspicious

VANCOUVER - The woman, identified as 50-year-old Verna Simard, was discovered dead in the 100-block of East Hastings St shortly before 8pm.  (CTV) MORE:  Another suspicious fall   Reward renewed

 
     

Arrest

WINNIPEG - Police have arrested a suspect following the stabbing death of Clarky Stevenson, 15.  Steven Raymond Johnston, 18, of Winnipeg has been charged with second-degree murder.   (CTV) MORE:  2nd teen charged      

Charges laid

LAC LA RONGE - RCMP have charged 21-year-old Jimmy David Douglas Ross from the Lac La Ronge First Nation with first-degree murder.  Police say Jason James Charles from the Lac La Ronge First Nation was found dead at a home on the reserve.   (CTV)   

 
     

Son in court

KAMLOOPS - Joshua Isaac Steel’s file was in BC Supreme Court in Kamloops to fix a date for trial.  His father, 63-year-old Phil Steel, was found dead in his Westmount home on Sept. 12.   (Kamloops this week)  PREVIOUS:  Teen detained   Son faces charges

Murder-suicide

RED DEER - RCMP said that around 9:15am Sunday family members found the bodies of a 93-year-old woman and an 89-year-old man in a home in the Sunnybrook area of Red Deer.  (CBC)   MORE: Suspicious deaths    Investigation complete

 
     

Fugitive caught

FISHER BRANCH - Russell McDiarmid, 51,  is the prime suspect in the murder of Nancy Swenty, 33.  (CTV)    MORE:  Manhunt ends   Human remains found   Body found   Clues lead police to body  

Death ruled a homicide

EDMONTON - Marvin Arthur Witzaney of Edmonton has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of an 84-year-old woman last May.  (CTV)   MORE:  Man charged

 
     

Guilty plea

SARNIA - Jane LaMarsh, 50, is to be sentenced for the deaths of 10-year-old Tyler Talbot and his 6-year-old sister Taiya. (QMI)  MORE:  10 years    Grandmother charged

Charges upgraded

REGINA - Fergus Standingready, 40, now faces second-degree murder charges in the death of 43-year-old Seydou Camara.  (CTV)    PREVIOUS:  Charge laid 

 
     

Murder-suicide

CHARLO - A man and a woman found dead Saturday in Charlo, NB, died as the result of a murder-suicide, police said.  Julien Guitard, 59, and Anne-Marie Guitard, 51, were found by police in a residence on Shirley Crescent about 9:30pm.  (CBC)

Teen charged

DESMARAIS - A youth from Desmarais, AB is facing a charge of second-degree murder after a 17-year-old was stabbed early Sunday morning.  Police believe Jesse Noskiye was fighting with another teen behind the home when he was stabbed.  (CBC)   MORE:  Teen accused

 
     

Homicide

OWEN SOUND - 34-year-old Gary Fernando Caribou was taken from the home and to hospital where he was pronounced dead.  46-year-old Erin Elizabeth Lees has been charged with second degree murder.  (Owen Sound Sun Times)   PREVIOUS:  Death treated as homicide

Double murder-suicide

GATINEAU - The investigation was launched into the deaths of Lucie Johnson, 51,  Denis Lagacé, 59, and Patrick Mongeon-Johnson, 32.  Police say all three were killed by a handgun owned by Mongeon-Johnson.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Apparent double murder-suicide   3 dead in domestic dispute  

 
     

Bail

PENTICTON - Lynn Kalmring, a 55-year-old registered nurse, was shot and killed on Aug 16 in the home she shared with her common-law husband, Keith Gregory Wiens.  Wiens, a retired Mountie, was arrested at the scene without incident and remanded into custody.  (CTV) PREVIOUS:  Ex-cop charged with murder   Former cop charged

Plea for help

TORONTO - The family of murder victim Jermaine Smith made an emotional appeal for someone to come forward and take responsibility for the shooting death of the 28-year-old, gunned down at a family-friendly community barbecue.  (Toronto Star)  MORE:  Victim saved children    Man identified   Slaying at barbeque  

 
     

Murder

CALGARY - Kenneth Law, 28, died from severe burns he sustained in connection with a vehicle fire.  Police responded to the scene on Sept 8 at 11:21pm in the 200-block of 28 Ave NW.  (CTV)   MORE:  Burned man a murder victim

Elderly man murdered

HAMILTON - Officers were called to the house at 55 Stirton St around 7pm for a stabbing. When they arrived they found George Washington Burnett's body.  (CityNews)   MORE:  Elderly man murdered in his home

 
     

Photo released

NEWMARKET - Peter Gavin, 67, was last seen some 2 months before a Whitchurch-Stouffville resident found a human skull in the St John's Sideroad and Warden Ave area on Aug 27.  Police said they believe Gavin was a victim of foul play.  (Toronto Star)

Murder publication ban lifted

KAWARTHA LAKES - Raymond Reid, 23, of Mystic Meadow Road in Ennismore is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jesse James Low on Sept 2.   (mykawartha)   PREVIOUS:  Publication ban on murder   Wide-ranging publication ban   

 
     

Brother charged

SOREL - 45-year-old Alain Primeau is scheduled to appear in a Sorel-Tracy courthouse to face charges related to the homicide of his brother, Richard Primeau.  (Montreal Gazette)   MORE:  He killed his brother   Shooting   Domestic dispute

Missing woman found dead

HERSCHEL - Human remains found in Saskatchewan have been identified as those of Carol King, 40, a Newfoundland and Labrador woman who had been missing for three weeks. (QMI)  MORE:  Remains   Remains are King's   Remains found   Suspicious disappearance

 
     

Arrest in 1999 murder

VANCOUVER - Police have arrested a man wanted for the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Poonam Randhawa.  Ninderjit Singh, 33, was arrested by US authorities Aug 19 in Riverside Country, Calif.  (Vancouver Province)     MORE:  Most wanted arrested   Suspect arrested   Police statements   Cold case suspect arrested   Accused wanted in 1997 murder attempt   

Father sentenced

EDMONTON - A local man who caused the car crash that killed his young son - and who abandoned his badly injured family at the scene - has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.  Shawn Michael Free, 30, was sentenced for dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of an accident and offer assistance.  (QMI)   MORE:  Reckless driving death

 
     

Shooting

MISSISSAUGA - A car parked outside a Mississauga plaza was left riddled with bullet holes in a fatal shooting that targeted one man.   Police identified him as Huy Duc (Andy) Nguyen, a 41-year-old Brampton man.    (Toronto Star)   MORE:  Victim identified   Man shot   Targeted

Murder charge

PUNNICHY - RCMP say Dennis Dustyhorn died in the Wynyard hospital after officers found the 27-year-old man injured on the Kawacatoose First Nation early Sunday morning.  Ryan Daniel David Assoon, a 23-year-old Kawacatoose resident, has been arrested.  (CTV)

 
     

Victim identified

OTTAWA - Police have identified 23-year-old Leanne Lawson as the woman whose body was found in a downtown parking lot.   (CTV)   MORE:  Death a homicide   Police investigate   Woman's body found

Woman charged

PETERBOROUGH - City police have charged a 19-year-old woman with second-degree murder in connection with the killing of 21-year-old Matt Courneya.  (Peterborough Examiner)     MORE:  Suspects identified   Stabbing

 
     

Fire victim dies

SASKATOON - Firefighters rescued a Shelbey Babecy, 22, who was trapped on the house’s main floor. She suffered life-threatening injuries and died in hospital.  Police had initially charged Michael John Krohn, 27, with criminal negligence causing bodily harm in connection with the fire. (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)   PREVIOUS:  Charge in fire death   Victim dies in hospital

Charges laid

EDMONTON - Lance Matthew Shane Regan, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder in an Aug. 16 stabbing at the Edmonton Institution.  Mason Tex Montgrand, 21, died from multiple stab wounds after a fight in a cellblock used to house troublesome inmates.  (Edmonton Journal)     MORE:  Murder charge   Lockdown again   Another inmate slaying   Suspicious inmate death    

 
     

Death during B&E

OTTAWA - OPP said 41-year-old Corey Blaskie entered a home on Edward St N in Arnprior where he had a confrontation with two of the homeowners.  CTV)  

Man slain while committing a break-in

Residents may be charged 

Stabbing  

Sudden death    

Homeowners are not required to flee

 
     

Suspect dies

MISSISSAUGA - Peel regional police confirmed Akash Wadhwa had “succumbed to his injuries”.  Wadhwa, whose name had been withheld when he was alive because of his age, fell on to Hwy 401 from the Mavis Rd overpass 2 hours before Kiranjit Nijjar's body was found.  Toronto Star)  

 

Teen's killer dies  

Suspect dies  

One sided romance  

Murder-suicide attempt  

Body found  

Police probe murder-suicide   

Police find girl's body

 
     

Suspect charged

MONTREAL - Michel Langlois, 50, was charged with second-degree murder.  Justyna Kozyra, 27, died in hospital after she was attacked with a knife on Brunswick Blvd.  Neighbours say Langlois was upset with Kozyra's dog for defecating on the lawn in front of his apartment building.  (CBC) 

 

Dog poop rage  

Stabbing  

Janitor released, partner held  

Man charged  

 
     

Charges

EDMONTON -  Steven Heer is accused of killing Mohan Heer, 59 in a fight between family members.  (Edmonton Journal)   MORE:  Charges laid    Charges laid   Fatal family dispute

Stabbing victim dies

WINNIPEG - The victim has been identified as Robert Rourke, 22-years-old.  Gregory Troy Govereau is facing one count of second degree murder.  (CTV)

 
     

Charges laid

OTTAWA - Police charged Layla Farook Aman with failure to remain at the scene causing death in relation to the death of 22-year-old Dan Miller of Stratford, Ont.  (CBC)  MORE:  Hit-and-run charges   Victim identified   Hit-and-run

Warrant issued

OTTAWA - Liban Sheikhadem, 26, is wanted for one count of second degree murder in connection to the death of Henry Belmore on July 31, 2011.   (CTV)   MORE:  Belmore knew his killer   Friend watches stabbing   Stabbing   

 
     

Murder charge

LETHBRIDGE - Luis Alfonso Ochoa-Gamez, 29, of Cuauhtemoc, Mexico was returned to Canada to face a charge of second degree murder in the shooting death of 24-year-old Mauro Hernandez-Renteria, also of Mexico.    (CTV)   MORE:  Man extradited

Charges laid

STURGEON LAKE - Dereck Morin was found dead on Aug. 20 at the Sturgeon Lake First Nation.  29-year-old Dexter Ermine was arrested and charged with manslaughter.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Death a homicide   Stabbing

 
     

Dad killed defending daughter

WINNIPEG - Friends identified the 48-year-old man as Joseph Lalonde, a single father.  Lalonde and his 18-year-old daughter were attacked outside their home on Aug. 24, in what looks like a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  (QMI)   MORE:  Assault victim dies   Baseball bat beating death    Charges upgraded

Charge upgraded

BRAMPTON -  Macdermid Ermacora, 42, has now been charged with first-degree murder and Gary Murray, 42, now faces a charge of accessory to murder after the fact in connection with the death of Racquel Junio.  (CTV)   MORE:   Husband charged   Suspect all smiles   Body is missing woman   Husband arrested 

 
     

2nd man arrested

TORONTO - Jeremy Sirur-Yee, 23, faces charges of second-degree murder and attempted murder.  Andy Barrientos, an 18-year-old man from Toronto, has also been arrested and charged with second-degree murder.  The two are accused of shooting dead Pamela Ariza in a low-rise apartment on Seeley Dr & Sheppard Ave W.   (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Hunt for 2 men   Victim ID'd   Woman killed   Woman dead

Bail

KELOWNA - BC Supreme Court Judge ruled that Daniel Joseph McRae, 20, Matthew Thomas McRae, 19, and Anson Lloyd Schell, 19, must live with their parents, have no contact with the co-accused or any members or associates of organized crime and have no contact with the family of the man killed, Dain Phillips, 51.   (CTV)  MORE:  Fugitive surrenders   Hells Angel surrenders   Hells Angels charged   7 charged    Bikers

 
     

Double homicide charges

SCHOMBERG - A man faces murder charges after a double homicide in Schomberg, north of Toronto.  They have been identified as James Wilson  and William Allan Jones. Both were 76.  Robert Abernethy, 47, of Schomberg, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder.  (CP)    

 

Man charged  

Murder charges  

Murder charges laid  

Workplace slayings  

Erratically  

 
     

Wife faces murder charge

BROCKVILLE - Nancy Lane, 52,  a former Prescott councillor was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in connection with the death of her husband, Arthur Lane, in October 2009.  (Ottawa Citizen)   MORE:  Nurse charged   Wife charged  

Drowning a homicide

KELOWNA - Laura Letts-Beckett, 50, was fishing with her husband on Upper Arrow Lake near Shelter Bay, last August.  Peter Ernest Edward Beckett, 54, has now been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife.   (CP)  MORE:  Husband charged

 
     

Homicides soar

The study on homicides by UNODC blamed organized crime for the region's surge in violence.   (AP)  REPORT:  Global study on homicide 2011  

Shooting

MONTREAL - The victim Francesco Zito, 37, was not known to police.   (CTV)   MORE:  Man is shot   Man shot 

 
     

Man charged

PICKERING - Kyle Marcoux, 21, faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of Tyson Henry, 22.  Henry was fatally stabbed on July 2 (CityNews)   PREVIOUS:   Victim identified    Stabbing   Man stabbed

Teen killed

HAMILTON - A 19-year-old girl has died after being struck by a minivan with an impaired driver behind the wheel.   Nikolay Chshitko, a 19-year-old from Hamilton, has been charged with impaired driving causing death.  (CTV)

 
     

Guilty

LONDON - Youseff Wahid, 42, a former air steward, was found guilty of murdering Fatima Kama, a 28-year-old Canadian citizen who was visiting London at the time of her death.    (PostMedia)     MORE:  Suitcase killer found guilty   Man found guilty   Man convicted    Girl in the suitcase

Charges upgraded

WINNIPEG - Charges against a 17-year-old girl have been upgraded to first-degree murder following a brawl on Garfield St that resulted in one man's death.  (Winnipeg Free Press)   PREVIOUS:  Family identifies victim   Teen charged with manslaughter   Street brawl crash   Brawl leaves 1 dead 

 
     

Not guilty plea

GODMANCHESTER - Marc-Olivier Perras, 21, is accused of shooting Karine Faubert and dumping her body on a walking/ATV trail in Godmanchester.  (CTV)    MORE:  Ex-boyfriend arrested    Car located   Woman shot   Car located

Owner charged

TORONTO - Adam Smoke, 41, and Melody George, 39, died during a fire on Aug 12 at 143 Bastedo Ave.  The owner of the home, James Webster, 30, was charged under the Ontario Fire Code.   (CityNews)

 
     

Homicide

TORONTO - Police say Rendell Palacios, 22, was likely shot between 1am and 2am on Monday and left in the unit on Rosseau Road.   (CityNews)  MORE:  Man killed after jail release

Fight death

STANLEY MISSION - RCMP say 26-year-old Frederick Thomas McKenzie died in hospital.  Michael Cook, 30, been charged with second-degree murder in the death.   (CTV)

 
     

Manslaughter

WINNIPEG - Police identified the victim as Tim Koostachin, 30.  Ray Vaughn Munro, 19, has been charged with manslaughter.  (CTV)

Victim identified

MONTREAL - Neighbouring residents of the apartment building at 5775 Cote des Neiges identified the victim as Rakib Ullah. (CTV)  MORE:  Man shot

 
     

Body found

L'ISLE-AUX-ALLUMETTES - Police said they were called to 688 River Rd in L'Isle-aux-Allumettes around 1:30pm Saturday.  The call was originally for a man who had reportedly fallen to his death in his garage, but police said they found signs of violence at the scene that involved a knife.  He has been identified as 51-year-old Kevin Law.  (CTV)

Teen arrested

EDMONTON - Police were called to the area of 107 St and 107 Ave shortly after midnight and on arrival found 22-year-old Bruce Dumais lying on the ground, suffering from apparent stab wounds.  RCMP arrested a 16-year-old male in St. Paul on Friday. (CTV)   MORE:  Death ruled a homicide    Suspicious death   Victim identified by family

 
     

3 charged

BARRIE - Bradley Hubbard, 42, of Collingwood was attacked after 9:30pm.on Saturday at the mini-putt course on Commerce Park Dr.  Police arrested Justin Spring, 18, Jake Workman, 18, and Matthew Spring, 19, and charged them with second-degree murder.  (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Teens charged   3 charged   Mini-putt death   3 charged 

2 teens charged

SANDY BAY  - The suspects, aged 17 and 15, were arrested for allegedly killing 32-year-old Roberta Dawn McIvor while attempting to steal the victim's vehicle as she slept inside it on the reserve during the wee hours of July 30, police said.  (QMI)   MORE:  Girls charged   Manslaughter charges   Victim decapitated   Decapitated body found   Gruesome death    Homicide

 
     

Murder - suicide

EDMONTON - Residents believe Ken Kopiak was suicidal and a schizophrenic who was off his medication.   Police said they are investigating Anna Fedorio's death in the fire as a homicide but are not looking for suspects.   (CBC)   MORE:  2 dead in fire    Deadly suspicious fire

2 years

VANCOUVER - Spencer Brian Berg had been drinking and was behind the wheel of a four-door 1998 Honda Accord when it struck a hydro pole killing 19-year-old Ryan Grant (Tri-City News)   MORE:  'We will never be able to forgive'    Driver pleads guilty

 
     

Single gunshot

COLD LAKE - The RCMP began a homicide investigation after Paul Simon Scanie, 29, was found dead inside a home 10 kilometres south of Cold Lake.  Wayne Ernest Matchatis has been charged with second-degree murder. Kenneth Leonard Matchatis has been charged with being an accessory to murder.  (Edmonton Journal)   MORE:  Death a homicide     Body found

Beaten man dies

WINNIPEG - Harvey Sanderson had been in hospital in critical condition since he was found inside his suite by a health-care worker. John Raven Ward, was already wanted by police on an outstanding arrest warrant. The woman, Bobbi Melissa McKay, was also charged with two counts of failing to comply with a probation order.  (CBC)   MORE:  Man dies of injuries

 
     

Hit & run cold case

MONTREAL - Almost five years after Robert Brisson was struck and killed by a truck  a 47-year-old man turned himself in to police.  Alain Gaudreault appeared briefly in Quebec Court.  (Montreal Gazette)

25 to life

BLYTHE - Patrick Mark Dillon, 40, was convicted June 1 of first-degree murder for attacking Carlos Caldera, 57, at Mayflower Park in Blythe on Dec. 16, 2008.  (Desert Sun)   MORE:  Life sentence

 
     

Victim identified

EDMONTON - Police have identified the burnt remains found inside a vehicle on an abandoned rural property back in late July.  Police say the remains are those of 27-year-old Kyle Gayda.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:  Burned body   Remains discovered

Stabbing

TORONTO - Khalfani "Jordan" Haughton, 18, was found bleeding in the hallway of a high-rise residential building at 1130 Wilson Ave.   Derrick Oram, 37, has been charged with second degree murder.  (Toronto Star)   MORE:  Man charged in stabbing

 
     

Victim ID'd

WINNIPEG - Police have identified Baljinder Singh Sidhu, 27 years old, of Winnipeg as the man killed during a brawl on Osborne Street Friday morning.  (QMI)   MORE:  Man killed in brawl   Deadly brawl   Stabbing

Victim, suspect identified

VICTORIA - Joshua Tyler Bredo, was arrested as a suspect in the of killing 20-year-old Daniel Jordan Levesque at a Cormorant St condo  (Victoria Times Colonist)   PREVIOUS:  1 dead in double stabbing

 
     

Suspect

RED DEER - 22-year-old Oscar Salazar was found dead inside a BMW sport utility vehicle near the intersection of 63rd St and 59th St on August 2nd.  (Global)  MORE:  Victim identified   Suspicious death   Shot man dies  

Parents identify son's killer

HALIFAX - Linda and David Reader said Friday that they believe their son, Jonathan, was killed by a youth gang known as the Murda Squad. (CBC)   MORE:  Murda Squad suspected    Unsolved crime: Reader homicide

 
     

Victim wanted to be free

TORONTO - Shaher Bano Shahdady was just 21, a young mother who wanted to live her Canadian life as a free Canadian woman. Her estranged husband Abdul Malik Rustam, 27, has been charged with first-degree murder.  (QMI)  MORE:  Husband charged   Estranged husband charged   Son left in apt with mother's body

Charges laid

PRINCE ALBERT - RCMP found 36-year-old Ricky Lee Bear of the Muskoday First Nation lying on the ground dead.  20-year-old Cody Travis Walker of the Muskoday First Nation and 28-year-old Wayne Douglas Moshenko of Regina both have been charged with 2nd degree murder.   (CTV)  MORE:  New details 

 
     

5 charged

WOODSTOCK - The Iron Grill Restaurant in Woodstock, Ont., caught fire and exploded Aug. 12, 2009.   Police say two men who were outside the eatery at the time it exploded suffered life-threatening burns.  One of them later died in a Hamilton hospital.  Usama Akhter, 21, is charged with arson and manslaughter.   (CP)   MORE:  5 arrested   Charges in deadly fire

Suspect surrenders

GABRIOLA ISLAND - RCMP arrested Jason Daniel Cramer, 37, about 8:45am Thursday after an overnight hunt.  Police locked down Gabriola and quickly identified Cramer as the prime suspect in the fatal stabbing of Elaine Schwartz, who was found dead in her home at 1264 Harrison Way.   (Times Colonist)   MORE:  Victim's boyfriend was homicide victim   Stabbing   Woman killed

 
     

Charges laid

LETHBRIDGE - James Karl Bach, 54, has been charged with manslaughter.  The charge is in relation to the death of Brent Good Dagger, 29, who was found dead inside a 7th Ave home.  (Calgary Herald)    MORE:  Stabbing

Balcony fall was murder

SYDNEY, AU - Simon Gittany, 37, was charged after the death of a woman Australian media reports have identified as 30-year-old Lisa Cecilia Harnum.  (PostMedia)   MORE:  Fiance charged   Woman screamed for help

 
     

Suspect charged

TORONTO - Anthony Smalling, 23, was shot around 10pm at an apartment building on 7 Capri Rd.  Juede Rayon Noel, 24, has been charged with second-degree murder.  (Toronto Star)   MORE:  Man charged   Drive-by shooting   Victim ID'd   Shooting

Homeless man killed

EDMONTON - Police were called to Mary Burlie Park at 10:30pm Thursday, and Eric Cardinal was taken to hospital where he died from a stab wound suffered during an altercation.  (Edmonton Journal)    MORE:  Victim ID'd   Fight ends with stabbing

 
     

Man accused

INNISFIL - Dawn Bailey, 27, was found Sunday morning after emergency crews responded to a fire at the address.  Ryan Kovacs, 27, of Bradford, Ont., is charged with first-degree murder.  (Sun Media)   MORE:  Woman was stabbed

Shooting

TORONTO - Mohamed Wasaghe was rushed to Sunnybrook Hospital after he was shot in unit #919 in an apartment at 333 Sidney Belsey Crescent.  (CTV)   MORE:  Shock after shooting   Overnight shooting   West end shooting

 
     

Victim identified

TORONTO - Police found David Blyth, 30, at 1239 Weston Rd.  Police have charged Twayne Ruddock, 25, with second-degree murder.  (CTV)   MORE:  Murder charge 

Charges laid

EDMONTON - Police charged Monwat Akool Madood, 21, of Edmonton with second-degree murder.  (Edmonton Journal)     MORE:  Man sleeping on bench slain

 
     

RCMP investigate

LAMONT COUNTY - A woman's body was located at a rural residence, near the junction of Hwy 16 & Range Road 184.  An adult male was taken into custody.  A neighbour confirms a sign located at the front of the property shows the names of those who reside at the residence, Nels and Connie Magnuson.  (CTV)   MORE:  Woman found dead   Possible domestic violence

5th person dies

WINNIPEG - Police confirmed that a total of 5 people have died following a blaze that tore through a rooming house at 288 Austin St N on July 16.  Lulonda Lynn Flett, 40, faces charges for five counts of second-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder.  (CTV)    PREVIOUS:  Homicide charges   Woman charged   Arrest connected to fire

 
     

Mystery brewing

ST JOHN'S - Gossip has filled the information vacuum in the weeks since the murder of Dick Oland, 69, one-time heir to the throne of Moosehead Breweries.  Mr. Oland was found dead inside the uptown office of his investment company on July 7.  (National Post)  

Cone of silence

Murder and a maritime dynasty

Probe widens

Police search boat of daughter-in-law

Homicide  

Killed at his desk with an axe

 
     

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