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WINNIPEG - Martin Packulak had been on trial for second-degree murder for the October 2004 slaying of Gordon Catcheway. Much of the Crown's case rested on the word of George McIvor, who was originally charged in the slaying only to have it dropped in exchange for his testimony. (Winnipeg Free Press) |
OTTAWA - An Ottawa man was found strangled in his Greenboro home yesterday and police expect to charge his son today in the city's first homicide of the year. Police would not release the victim's name yesterday. However, sources say the deceased man is Pierre Benge, a married father of four. (Ottawa Citizen) |
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TORONTO - Hou Chang Mao was stacking oranges outside a Gerrard and Broadview store when a gunfight broke out around the dinner hour. He died at the scene, leaving behind grieving two children and an extended family who came to Canada for a better. (City News) PREVIOUS: Son, daughter mourn father killed Father of 2 killed Innocent bystander killed |
DEKALB, Ill. - The gunman who killed five people at Northern Illinois University was identified Friday as 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak - a former student who had stopped taking his medication. (CTV) MORE: Northern Illinois University shooting NIU Northern Star newspaper NIU Campus tragedy Former student attack at NIU |
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VANCOUVER - RCMP officers and a hazardous materials team were called to deal with chemicals found in a shed on the Fort Langley property where Arthur Charles Carnes IV, an American murder suspect was arrested last week. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Accused murderer seeks refugee status Police nab wanted man Suspected killer arrested in Canada |
PRINCE GEORGE - The mother of a 21-year-old man gunned down last week outside a restaurant in Prince George, says she believes the death of her son was gang-related. Diane Henry said she believes members of a street gang in the BC Interior were involved in the shooting. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Mom pleas for info on son's murder Shooting victim identified Man dies after shooting |
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MISSISSAUGA - Norman Anderson died in hospital after being stabbed while in his garage on Hermitage Rd. in Malton. Police arrested and charged Timothy Belisle, 38, with second degree murder. (Mississauga News) MORE: Peel cops make arrest |
CHASE - Douglas James Skjeie died late Sunday in his trailer home in an RV park in Chase, just northeast of Kamloops. His wife, Sherry Skjeie, was charged with second-degree murder. (CanWest) MORE: Wife charged with murder |
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TORONTO - Officers set up a command post in the parking lot of St. Stephen Anglican Church hoping residents would come forward with information in the death of 22-year-old Shawn McLean. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Police struggle to learn why 'good' man killed Search for victim's killer |
BRIDGEWATER, NS - It's been just over a week since the frozen body of Karissa Boudreau was discovered in Bridgewater and while the town is anxiously awaiting new developments in the case police are saying that the investigation could drag on for months. (CanWest) PREVIOUS: 2 suspects released 2 arrested |
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MISSISSAUGA - A 35-year-old Mississauga man has been charged with second-degree murder in Peel Region's first homicide of the year. Officers found the body of 45-year-old Bafia Wladyslaw. Roman Paszkowski was arrested at the scene and charged. (CTV) |
TORONTO - Aslyn Walker admits he went to the ninth floor of Kempton Howard’s apartment building with a loaded gun, but he says he never intended to kill the respected community leader and mentor to many neighbourhood children. But that's what happened. (Toronto Star) |
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Father says God told him to kill TERRACE, BC - Supreme Court Judge Harvey Groberman ruled on Wednesday that Blair Donnelly, 48, was in a psychotic state when he stabbed his daughter Stephanie, 16, to death. Donnelly, a former pulp-mill worker and pastor, is being sent to a forensic psychiatric unit in Port Coquitlam. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Father found not responsible |
RED DEER - A man convicted of impaired driving causing death after a rollover accident outside Sylvan Lake in 2006 has been handed a two-year sentence to be served in the community. James Carr, 21, from Red Deer, was found guilty of seven charges following a Queen's Bench trial before Justice J.L. Foster in November. (Calgary Herald) |
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VANCOUVER - Police are treating the mysterious death of a man at Surrey Memorial Hospital as a homicide. Gurnam Singh Johal, 41, died last week. According to a source who spoke to Surrey radio station RED FM, arsenic was found in Johal's body. (Vancouver Province) |
LEWISPORTE, NL - Police have confirmed that a man and woman, both 23, died in a murder-suicide in northeastern Newfoundland and that a small child may have witnessed some of the violence. (CBC) PREVIOUS: Bodies of estranged NL couple found separately |
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CALGARY - The jury of eight women and four men deliberated for four days after the trial ended last week before unanimously agreeing that Michael Guignard, 51, and Alvin Waite, 31, had intended to kill Roy David, 41, at his apartment in the 300 block of 50th Avenue S.W. early on the morning of Dec. 1, 2005. (Calgary Herald) |
EDMONTON - A St. Albert family is outraged after a Peace River man got a 10-year-sentence for shooting their son as he lay in bed. Jesse Roshuk, 19, was originally charged with second-degree murder but the Crown reduced the charge to manslaughter Friday when he agreed to plead guilty. (Edmonton Journal) |
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CALGARY - Allan Richard Teather, 22, was found dead Wednesday in a luxury SUV with a shattered driver's window. He was shot to death, an autopsy confirmed Friday. (Calgary Herald) MORE: Parkade shooting victim remembered |
CALGARY - A psychiatric report has questioned whether accused killer Aminullah Ali should be held criminally responsible for fatally stabbing his cousin Mohammad Shafi Iqbalzada, 24, nearly three years ago. (Calgary Herald) |
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Officer says victims attacked him BANGKOK - A Thai police officer accused of murdering a Calgary man says Leo Del Pinto and Carly Reisig attacked him after he told them to stop fighting. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Thai cop on duty Thai policeman charged with killing Canadian Shooting unprovoked, say injured Canadian Canadian tourist is shot dead |
TORONTO - The verdict yesterday afternoon came on the third day of jury deliberations on the fate of Dr. Joseph Roncaioli, 72, who was charged in the July 20, 2003 death of his wife Ibi Roncaioli. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: 'I can kill you in 2 seconds' Doctor injected wife with deadly drugs |
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REGINA - A 31-year-old Manitoba man is to appear in a Regina courtroom Monday after he became the second person charged in a shooting that left two people dead and three wounded in Fort Qu'Appelle last fall. (Leader Post) PREVIOUS: 2nd charged Night of murder Teen arrested in double killing Double homicide Killings thought to have links to gangs Gang connection alleged in homicide |
EDMONTON - In February 2006, the jury found Murray McClenaghan, 61, guilty of manslaughter for killing Donald Hanscom, his partner in a rock landscaping company. But the jurors found McClenaghan not criminally responsible for the shooting because they believed he was in a dissociative state when he fired the gun. Instead of going to jail, he was committed to Alberta Hospital. (Edmonton Journal) |
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Accused killer needs treatment AIRDRIE - John Thomas Gearhart who bludgeoned his father-in-law to death with a hammer and nearly did the same to his mother-in-law should spend a long time in a mental institution to deal with a serious mental disorder that prompted the attack, a forensic psychiatrist testified on Friday. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Man admits killing father-in-law Son-in-law facing murder charge |
ERMINESKIN RESERVE - When an ambulance crew and police officers responded to a report of an assault on the Ermineskin Reserve, they found 20-year-old Christian Soosay of the Samson First Nation unconscious and unresponsive. George Soosay, 53, Christian’s uncle, was charged with second degree murder in the death of Clarence Cutknife, 44. (Edmonton Journal) PREVIOUS: Reserve death |
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Police charge 7 in retaliation killing HAMILTON - Hamilton police have now charged seven people in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man who was allegedly killed in retaliation for a home invasion. Michael Walsh, a construction worker, was killed in Waterdown, Ont., in October 2006. (CP) |
DURHAM - A dead body has been found in an abandoned van in Pickering, according to Durham police. He has been identified as 23 year old Khristian Gerri Ottley, a resident of Valley Farm Road. (CTV) MORE: Durham homicide |
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CALGARY - Kevin Bowser, who was murdered at his Rosscarrock home Wednesday, died from blood loss caused by multiple stab wounds, police say. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Suspicious death investigated |
Man admits guilt in 2003 murder OTTAWA - Christopher Myers entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder in the bike-path killing of Ardeth Wood in 2003. (CanWest) PREVIOUS: Guilty plea to second-degree murder |
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SELKIRK - A 17-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a teenager in Selkirk, Man., early on New Year's Day. Mike Woloshyn, 16, was stabbed at a New Year's Eve party early Tuesday in the small city. (CBC) MORE: Teammates to play in memory of slain teen |
MISSISSAUGA - Kevin Anthony Smith, 30, admitted shooting Orvil Campbell, 36, on March 9, 2007 in a slaying that had elements of self-defence, the court heard. Initially charged with second-degree murder, Smith pleaded guilty on Wednesday to manslaughter. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Warrant issued |
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MASON - A Quebec-born man living in Ohio has been charged with multiple counts of murder and arson after his wife and their four young children were found in the family's burning house. Michel Veillette, 34, was the sole survivor of a house fire on Friday in Mason, about 35 kilometres north of Cincinnati. (Montreal Gazette) PREVIOUS: Father charged in death of wife, 4 kids Mother, 4 kids die in fire, stabbing |
Activist loses 2nd son to gunfire TORONTO - After Patricia Wynter's first-born son was shot to death in 2001, she and 17 others who lost sons to violence formed an organization called UMOVE. On Sunday, Wynter's world was once again rocked by gun violence when her only surviving son, Karim Rashid Ata-Ayi, 29, was shot and killed in broad daylight in Regent Park. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Victim ID'd Victim identified Victim #82 identified |
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SAULTEAUX FIRST NATION - Jared Gopher, 23, of Saulteaux First Nation, made his first court appearance. Ronald Thomas, 28, died at a house party on the reserve, located north of the Battlefords. (CBC) |
CALGARY - Hours after he was seen chatting with others early New Year's Day, Mohamed Aman was found dead on the front lawn of an Altadore home. (Calgary Herald) PREVIOUS: Couple finds body |
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SASKATOON - Corona Genaille, eight months old, was rushed by ambulance from a home in the King George area on Sept. 25. Police were called to investigate because the injuries were determined to be suspicious. (Saskatoon Star Phoenix) |
Albanian killer caught at border DETROIT - An Albanian court convicted Ndue Harusha, born in 1942, of murder, attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm in absentia on Nov. 11, 1996. (Windsor Star) PREVIOUS: Interpol fugitive caught at Detroit Canada tunnel |
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OTTAWA - The man charged with killing Ottawa teen Jennifer Teague stood up in Superior Court and accepted responsibility for murdering the young woman. Kevin Davis, 26, stared straight ahead, in front of Justice Monique Metivier and clearly uttered the word "guilty" when arraigned on first-degree murder. (CanWest) |
'It was senseless, totally senseless' |
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EDMONTON - When Edson RCMP investigated a fatal truck rollover nearly a month ago it appeared that the young man who died was the only occupant of the vehicle. Corey Richard Colthorpe, of Sylvan Lake, who had just turned 26 that day, was thrown from the vehicle and was still alive when found by passersby, but later died in hospital in Edson. (Edmonton Journal) |
WINNIPEG - Joanne Nadine Hoeppner, 28, who was pregnant and building a stash of supplies for the baby girl she was expecting in early February, was answering the door of their home when she was shot in the chest and then collapsed on the bathroom floor. (Winnipeg Free Press) PREVIOUS: Pregnant woman slain in drug house Pregnant woman fatally shot |
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Gangster predicted his own death CALGARY - Although Mark Kim never heeded that dire warning, the slain gangster might have foreseen the life he long embraced would lead to an early death. (Sun Media) MORE: Police warn of gang warfare |
Double shooting leaves man dead STEINBACH - A double shooting on New Year's Day has left one man dead and another clinging to life in what RCMP are calling an attempted murder followed by a suicide. (Winnipeg Free Press) |
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TORONTO - There was an alleged altercation outside of a downtown Windsor nightclub that left 20-year-old Luis Acosta-Escobar dead. There is an arrest warrant out for 24-year-old Mohamud Hagi. (CP) PREVIOUS: Suspected killer westbound 'Armed and dangerous' |
MISSISSAUGA - Peel police are investigating whether the New Year's Eve death of a 13-year-old Mississauga boy was the result of an assault in early December. The Grade 8 student at Riverside Public School died at the Hospital for Sick Children Monday. (Toronto Star) |
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MONTREAL - Humberto Caicedo, 26, had initially been charged with assault causing injury and attempted murder after the attack, which occurred Aug. 28 on a Montreal Transit Corp. bus in Rosemont. (Montreal Gazette) |
DARTMOUTH, NS - Jennifer Horne, 20, was last seen Saturday at the home she shared with her parents in Cole Harbour, and she was reported missing the following day. (CP) PREVIOUS: Body of missing woman found |
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TRURO - A Nova Scotia man arrested in connection with Nora Bernard's murder is the grandson of the celebrated native rights activist, police said Monday. (CTV) PREVIOUS: Man in custody Man charged in death Grandson of activist charged in her death |
MONTREAL - Johanne Bariteau, a former real estate agent, was charged at the Montreal courthouse yesterday with second-degree murder in the death of a 36-year-old man who was found inside her six-unit apartment building on 1st Ave. Friday afternoon. (Montreal Gazette) |
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Tribal leader took on the loggers KUALA LUMPUR - Kelesau Naan never went to school. He signed his name with a thumb print and spent his entire life living in the jungles of Borneo. But among his tribe, the Penan, he was a visionary and an inspiration. For years, he had organised his people in a desperate defence of their home and heritage: the pristine rain-forest in the deep interior of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. (Times online) PREVIOUS: No suspects in mysterious death "Spare our homeland" rainforest tribes plead with BC mining giant |
MISSISAUGA - There had been speculation that Joyceln Dulnuan, 27, died while struggling to free herself after being tied up. Fabian Loayza-Penaloza, 35, of Woodbridge, a contractor who had been working in the home, was charged Wednesday. A day earlier, Christian Figueroa, 35, of Ecuador, was arrested as police said he was planning to return to South America. (Star) PREVIOUS: Victim's mother 'pleased' Second suspect arrested Man charged in killing Shattered dreams $10,000 to send maid's body home |
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Missing father could hold clues MONTREAL - Montreal police are searching for a missing father of two considered to be an "important witness" in a murder case. Harinder Singh Cheema, 28, has been missing since the day before a woman was found dead in his Deguire Boulevard apartment in Ville St. Laurent. (CBC) MORE: Children safe Marriage was unhappy |
NANAIMO - Dale Michael Clyne, 45, appeared in Nanaimo provincial court yesterday, where he was charged with second-degree murder. Shortly before 4 pm on Christmas, 39-year-old William Allan Laskoski, of Nanaimo, was shot and killed in a home in the 700 block of Short Avenue. (Times Colonist) PREVIOUS: Man gunned down at 'problem house' |
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McPHERSONS MILLS - An elementary school teacher was one of two people whose bodies were publicly identified by police Monday after being found in a home in northeastern Nova Scotia. Paul Andrew MacDonald, 33, of Thorburn and Dawn Perrin, 26, were found in Perrin's home in McPhersons Mills on Sunday afternoon. (CBC) MORE: RCMP suspect murder/suicide |
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