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Lower Mainland Murders 2013

Lower Mainland Murders 2012

     

Man charged

MANIWAKI - Quebec Police charged Michel Sabourin, 51, following the discovery of a woman's body in a home on Manawaki's rue Principale.  The victim has been identified as 47 year old Lynda Riopel.  (CTV)  MORE:   Man charged

 

Home was targeted

BRAMPTON - Kesean Williams, a Grade 4 student, was shot in the head while sitting in his living room late Wednesday night. Peel Regional Police said it appears the townhouse where Williams lived with his mother and older brother was targeted, but investigators are not sure why.  (CTV) MORE:   Victim was from Hamilton   Boy shot   Boy, 9, dies   Boy shot in the head   Police name boy   Shooting

 

Treated like a homicide

CROSS LAKE - Officers were called at around 6am Sunday to a disturbance at a large house party, where they found the man suffering from life-threatening injuries.  RCMP did not release the deceased man's name but CBC News has learned he is Austin Monias.  (CBC)  PREVIOUS:  Victim identified   Body found

 

3 charged

MISSISSAUGA - Police were called to 85 Acorn Place around 9:15pm on Jan 13 where they found Vittorio Aiello, 24, suffering from a stab wound.  He died in hospital 2 days later.  Police announced they’d charged 2 men - David Michael Quinn and Michael Boaheng, both 19 - with first-degree murder. Vi Sandra Hoang, 23, was charged with second-degree murder.  Investigators also issued an arrest warrant for Eric Nana Kyeremateng, 23, who’s wanted for first-degree murder.  (CityNews)   PREVIOUS:   Victim identified   Stabbing victim dies 

 

Stabbed and set on fire

TORONTO - Bridget Takyi, 27, was attacked on Richgrove Dr as she walked out to her car on her way to work around 4am.  Emmanuel Owusu−Ansah, 30, was charged with first-degree murder.  (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Man charged   Man charged   Woman's body found   Body left for hours    

 

Shooting

CEBU - A Canadian man in his 60s opened fire in a courtroom in the Philippines, killing a doctor and a lawyer before shooting and killing himself.  John Pope was at the courthouse in Cebu City Tuesday morning to face a charge of "malicious mischief and grave threat."  Police said they shot Pope in the arm, but he also shot himself in the head after falling to the floor.  (QMI)   MORE:   Canadian shoots 2   Canadian kills 2, self   Canadian accused   Canadian kills 2

 

Charged

MONTREAL - Nguyen Van Son, 48, has been arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder in Wednesday’s machete attack in a Saint-Michel home.  A 45-year-old man was found bleeding in an apartment on 51 St.  (CTV)   MORE:   Machete killing    Machete death

 

Shooting

TORONTO - Police were called to the Toronto Community Housing building at 605 Whiteside Place just after 2pm.  Tyson Bailey, 15, was found in a stairwell. He had been shot at least 4 times.  (CBC)   MORE:   Teenage boy shot    Victim identified  

 

Deaths ruled homicides

VANDERHOOF -  Mounties in northern BC say the deaths of two people in Vanderhoof, BC, have been ruled homicides.  The bodies of Blaine Albert Barfoot, 29, and Tara Lee Ann Williams, 40, were found in a home on Silvermill Road.  (CBC)   MORE:   Double homicide   2 suspicious deaths 

 

Man charged

MARKHAM - A 26-year-old Toronto man has been charged after a man died during a hit and run in Markham.  A 72-year-old man was struck and killed while he was crossing Kennedy Road.  The driver, Daniel Porter, surrendered and was arrested.  (CityNews)  PREVIOUS:   Pedestrian dead   Man dead

 

Boyfriend in custody

DHAKA - Jerin Mir, 20, a Scarborough woman was killed in Bangladesh, where she had been studying medicine for the past 2 years.  A man identified as Mir’s boyfriend is being held by police in Bangladesh after her family accused him in her death.  Mohiuddin Sharan has been in custody since Sunday, but as of Tuesday had not been charged.  (Toronto Star)  PREVIOUS:   Canadian dies   Canadian student killed   

 

2 charged

LLOYDMINSTER - Dustin Ferrante, 51, was found dead in a motel room just before 4:30am on Dec 20th.  RCMP have charged Damien James Mercer, 27, with second degree murder.  Another man, Jeremy James Fensom, 34, also faces charges in connection with the death.  (CBC)   MORE:   Fensom now in custody   Man killed   Death a homicide

Man charged

PRINCE ALBERT - Police have charged Craig Curtis Kopichanski, 21, with 7 offences in connection with a fatal collision.   His vehicle smashed into a car being driven by 30-year-old Chrystal Rivet, who later died in hospital.  (CTV)   MORE:   Woman killed in crash   Friends mourn expectant mother   Alleged drunk driver

 

Double homicide

ETHELBERT - The bodies of Elsie Steppa, 81, and a 50-year-old man were found earlier this week.  Local residents said Steppa was the first victim found in the home she shared with her nephew, Harry Jones.  Jones' whereabouts are unknown.  (Winnipeg Free Press)   MORE:   Deaths ruled homicides   2nd body found   Another body found

 

Woman charged

TORONTO - Police have charged a Toronto woman with second-degree murder after a man was found dead in his west-end basement apartment last weekend.  Leahann Hohmann, 50, was arrested and charged on Wednesday.  Earlier this week police revealed that Jose Ortiz, 65, died of blunt force trauma.  Ortiz had been living in a basement unit on Melville Ave for several years.  (CityNews)   PREVIOUS:    Murdered   Obvious signs of trauma   Body found   Suspicious death 

 

Homicide

MEAFORD - Robert Hampson, 49, and his common-law wife Marion moved into their dream home: a two-storey white farmhouse on quiet stretch along Grey Rd. 18.  But their quiet life was shattered when police found Hampson dead at the couple's home.  David Myles Brinton, 44, of no fixed address has been charged with second-degree murder.  (QMI)   PREVIOUS:   Publication ban on murder

 

Charged

CALGARY - Walker Eli Risling, 23, is facing a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 30-year-old Matthew John Brown.  Brown was found suffering from stab wounds in his Taradale Close NE home on Jan 5.  (CBC)  PREVIOUS:   Stabbing   Police asking for help  

 

Charges laid

ANNAPOLIS COUNTY - Keith Bent, 48, from Youngs Cove has been charged with two counts of impaired driving causing death.  Paul Longmire, 72, and his twin brother Maurice (Morris) Longmire were killed.  (CBC)    MORE:   Impaired charge   

 

Charges laid

EDMONTON - Around 8:40pm officers were called to an eighth-floor suite in the Capital Tower apartments on 101st St and 106th Ave. There, they found Karl Wayne Rittwage, 50, dead with some “obvious signs of trauma.”  Raymond George Anderson, 41, has been charged with second-degree murder and fail to comply with a probation order.  (Edmonton Sun)  PREVIOUS:   Detectives investigate death   Police investigate   Downtown death

 

Charges

MONTREAL - Dorval resident Stacey Snider, 34, will be charged with impaired driving in connection to an accident that killed Sylvain Ferland, 49, a bus driver and Janet Stoddard Snider, 61, her own mother.  Stacey Snider also suffered serious injuries in the crash.  (CTV)

 

Charges laid

CALGARY - Officers were called out to a home on Brisebois Dr NW at about 3:00am and found 2 men in medical distress.  The deceased male has been identified by his family as Brett Wiese, 21.  Police arrested a 17-year-old late Saturday and laid a charge of second-degree murder.  Mitchell William Harkes, 19, was arrested by police on Sunday and charged.  (CTV)    MORE:   Police warn about house party crashers 

 

Warrant issued

RED DEER - It is alleged that Lloyd Robert Sarson, 25, had been shot while seated in a vehicle and succumbed to his injuries.  Charges of first degree murder have been laid and a Canada wide warrant has been issued for 17 year old Adam William Lee Bird of Manitoba.  (Pincher Creek Voice)  MORE:   Teen wanted   Suspect named   Victim identified   Victim named   Homicide 

 

Man charged

WHITECOURT - William Kootenay, 22, is have charged with second degree murder after the death of Dolan Badger, 49.  (CTV)   MORE:   Gay man murdered   Outreach worker killed   Charges laid   Not a hate crime

 

Prescription drug death trial

KENTVILLE - Kyle David Fredericks, 23, of Kentville has pleaded not guilty to criminal negligence causing death and drug trafficking in a controlled substance in the death of Joshua Graves.  The 21-year-old man died suddenly at a house party in Berwick on March 19, 2011.  An autopsy showed Graves overdosed on a fatal mixture of alcohol and hydromorphone - often referred to as dilaudid.  (CTV) 

   

Witness receives death threat

DARTMOUTH -  He says the victim of the fatal shooting - Raymond Floyd Peters, 24 - had been in his apartment with a friend and used his phone.  Police responded to reports of an altercation in the area of Primrose St and Pinecrest Drive around 5:30pm.  It appears a fight started between a group of men in the backyard of a home in the area and Peters was shot several times.   (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Victim dies from injuries   Shooting victim dies

Vigil

MISSISSAUGA - In front of the Mississauga home where Teresa Williams and her 2-year-old daughter Evadne Williams-Scott lived, teddy bears, flowers and a toy unicorn are clustered together in the snow.  Teresa Williams, has been charged with second-degree murder and a psychiatric assessment is being conducted to determine whether the 24-year-old is fit for trial.  (Toronto Star)   PREVIOUS:   Mother charged   Mother charged   Mom charged

     

Murder-suicide

HOPE - After completing a crime scene investigation at the property on Othello Road where 2 men were found dead, IHIT said they determined one of the men is responsible for both deaths.  Police confirmed the shooting was targeted and that the deceased, Alec Lamb, 26, and Tylor Insley, 29, knew each other.  (CTV) 

Man charged

NANAIMO - Gabriel Peter Stinson, 40, is accused of confronting and stabbing the 35-year-old victim, who has not been named.  Police said the victim was found on the ground outside a housing complex on with stab wounds at around 1:45pm.  (CTV)   MORE:  2nd-degree murder   Stabbing   Man stabbed to death   'Nuisance' property

 
     

Teen sentenced

CAPE BRETON - A teen convicted of stabbing Brittany Green, 17, his girlfriend more than 100 times has been sentenced to life in prison.  Melvin Skeete Jr., who was 16-years old at the time of the incident, was sentenced as an adult in NS Youth Court.  (CTV)  MORE:   Teen sentenced as an adult   Teen gets life   'I had to kill her'   Young woman murdered 

Repeat offender

MONTREAL - Yan Robitaille-Godin, 32, is a repeat offender for driving while intoxicated.  Marie-Claude Grenon, 53, was crossing Des Seigneurs Blvd. at the corner of Haute Ville Blvd. when a truck ran her down Sunday at 5pm. Police say they believe Robitaille-Godin was responsible for the fatal crash and fled the scene without stopping after the woman was struck down.  (CTV)

 
     

Arrest made

SHERBROOKE - Police have arrested a 26-year-old man following a deadly hit and run in Sherbrooke.  The collision killed 19-year-old Roxanna Bouffard-Cyr and seriously injured a 20-year-old woman.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Hit-and-run   Fatal hit-and-run  Woman identified   Car owner released

Murder-suicide

MONTREAL - Police are investigating the murder-suicide of 2 brothers on Plaza Ave, days after one of the men lost his daughter to cancer.  The two men are brothers, identified as 60-year-old Antonio and 58-year-old Giovanni Iafigliola.   (CTV)   MORE:   Apparent murder-suicide

 
     

Ex-boyfriend charged

MONTREAL - The body of Pamela Jean, 27, of Longueuil was discovered in the basement of a Hotel-de-Ville duplex in Montreal North, 5 days after Jean was last seen alive.  Officers arrested the resident of the home, Juan Ferma Palma, 32.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Suspect   Ex-boyfriend arrested   Body may be missing woman   Missing woman

Man surrenders

TORONTO -  Glenton Gibson, 23, was stabbed to death inside an apartment building on Bleecker St on the afternoon of Dec 20, 2012.  Trestan Brown, 19, of Toronto surrendered to police and was charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder.   (CBC)   MORE:   Suspect surrenders   Stabbing   1 dead, 1 injured   Double stabbing

 
     

Homicide

GOD'S LAKE - The body of Leah Anderson, 15, a member of the Gods Lake Narrows First Nation, was found "at an outdoor location" on the reserve.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Sudden death   RCMP probe death

Man charged

REGINA - Police say the body of 81-year-old Victor Richard McNab was found in the 1400-block of Rae St.  Dale Murray Stonechild, 58, has been charged with second-degree murder.  (CTV)  MORE:   Homicide

 
     

Police to exhume body

TORONTO - Police confirmed that Dwayne Biddersingh’s body will be exhumed.  In 1992, Biddersingh reportedly fell 22 storeys to his death from the family’s Parkdale apartment on Close Ave.  (Toronto Star)   PREVIOUS:   Father, stepmother charged   Arrest in 1994 murder   Suitcase murder   Cold case charge  

Hit-and-run arrest

MISSISSAUGA - Jacob Favila, 7, of Ajax, was killed when the van he was travelling in was rear-ended by a Hummer in the westbound lanes of Highway 401 near Dixie Road late in the afternoon of Jan 1.  Police have arrested Jose Olmedo Renteria, 30.  (CP24)  MORE:   Latin rapper stands accused     Hit-and-run   Police seek driver

 
     

Man charged

MOOSE LAKE - RCMP said around 11pm, they found a 24-year-old man unconscious and badly injured in a home.  32-year-old Lott Campbell from Moose Lake has been charged with second-degree murder.  (CTV)   MORE:   Homicide

Income support

OTTAWA - Families of children who are murdered or go missing will be eligible for up to $350 per week of income support if the death or disappearance is the result of a “probable” Criminal Code offence.   (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Income support   New grant 

 
     

2 charged

SARNIA - OPP charged a man and woman with first-degree murder days after 27-year-old Noelle Paquette was found dead in a woodlot SE of Sarnia.  Tanya Bogdanovich, 31, and Michael McGregor, 19, both of Sarnia, were arrested.  (CBC)   MORE:   2 arrested   Man, woman charged   Body found  

Arrest

LONG PLAIN - Cody Alexander Schmidt, 21, of Long Plain faces a second-degree murder charge.  Officers said a dispute broke out between several parties outside a residence on Jan 2 that led to the death of the 24-year-old victim from Portage la Prairie.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Body found   Body recovered  

 
     

Deemed fit to appear

DRUMMONDVILLE - Sonia Blanchette, 33, the mother who allegedly drowned her 3 young children last Dec, has been deemed able to understand the charges she faces, but a court will still have to establish if she's fit for trial on charges of premeditated murder.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:  Mother charged   Mother accused    Kids bodies found   Identities unveiled   Bodies of 3 children found  

Charged

OTTAWA - Police have charged Mourad Louati, 18, of Ottawa with second degree murder after another Ottawa teen died from injuries sustained during a bloody brawl.  Gatineau police said 18-year-old Sheldon O’Grady was stabbed several times on Promenade Du Portage after a fight broke out inside a club called Addiction.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Stabbing   Friends identify victim 

 
     

  Sentenced

RED DEER - Tyler James Stevens, 30, was convicted of 4 counts of criminal negligence causing death and one count of criminal negligence causing bodily harm in the crash near Innisfail, Alta., on March 4.   Anthony Subong Castillon, 35, Joey Flores Mangonon, 35, Eden Dalu Biazon, 39, and Josefina Flores Velarde, 52, were killed when a Range Rover travelling the wrong way in the southbound lanes of the QE II Highway slammed head-on into their vehicle.  (CBC)   MORE:   Driver sentenced

Impaired charge

THE PAS - Around 3:45pm on Dec. 21, police and emergency crews were called to a head-on collision involving two pickup trucks on Highway 10.  The driver of one of the trucks, a 63-year-old man from Shoal River First Nation, died at the scene.  RCMP said that John Anthony Ducharme, 44, of Opaskwayak Cree Nation has been charged with impaired driving causing death, and driving while prohibited.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Impaired charges   Charges laid     

 
     

Review demand

EDMONTON - John (Jonny) Hollar, 29, died on Sunday, 2 days after he was attacked. A suspect was arrested at the scene. A 29-year-old man is charged with second-degree murder.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:    Man charged    Man dies in hospital 

Police seek SUV

CALGARY - RCMP said Reyd Nevin Rabbit Carrier, 19, a member of the Siksika Nation in southern Alberta, was found dead in the ditch about 8:30am on Tuesday when RCMP were called to a report of a pedestrian hit-and-run.  (QMI)

 
     

Fatal crashes

EDMONTON - Alcohol and speed played a role in many of the fatal crashes in Edmonton last year, police say.  Police said Friday that there were 29 traffic fatalities in 2012, resulting in 28 fatal collisions and 49 serious injury collisions.  Of those fatalities, 57% involved speed while 35% involved an impaired driver.   (CTV) 

Man charged

COLLINGWOOD - Paul Alves Faria, 49, of Collingwood was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 54-year-old Victoria Doyle.  Doyle's body was found in her Kohl St home on Tuesday afternoon, after police and paramedics were called to the residence around 4pm.  (Midland Free Press)  PREVIOUS:   Murder

 
     

Charged

ELPHINSTONE - Around 10:30pm officers were called to a home on the Keeseekoowenin First Nation where they found Terrel Stewart Shorting, 34, dead.  Terris Ronald Mintuck, 50, has been charged with second-degree murder.  (CTV)   MORE:   Disturbance turned fatal

Death a homicide

REGINA - Officers were called to a report of an injured man in the 1100-block of Robinson St.  The man was taken to hospital, where he later died of his injuries. The victim has been identified as Delvin Charles Mike, 26, of Regina.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Suspicious death

 
     

Victim ID'd

THUNDER BAY - Police received a 911 call just after 7pm on Dec. 29, stating that the owner of a house at 245 Villa St. had come home to find 2 people unconscious inside.  Police said Denis Desmond Mathews, 25, had no vital signs and was later pronounced dead. (CBC)  PREVIOUS:   Homicide   Murder a surprise  

2 charged

POWERVIEW - RCMP were called to a residence on Black River First Nation around 2am on Jan 1.  A man was found dead at the scene.  Officers identified the man as Peter Richard Bird, 25, of Black River First Nation. Jason Moar, 20, and Brandon Bird, 21, face second-degree murder charges.  (CTV)   MORE:   2 charged 

 
     

3 charged

BELLEVILLE - 3 people have been charged after a male was found dead.  Police say the body was found around 9am on Gilbert St at a residence in Belleville.  Garry Whyte, 47, Justin Kleinsteuber, 27, and Claudette Cardinal, 42, each face a charge of second-degree murder.   (CP24)   MORE:   Murder charges 

Stabbing

SASKATOON -  Police discovered Jonathen Livingston Moosewaypayo after receiving a 911 call at 12:28am on Jan. 1 reporting a stabbing in a home in the 22nd St W and Ave O S area.   Moosewaypayo, 28, was transported to Royal University Hospital by MD Ambulance, where he died from his wounds.  (CBC)   MORE:   Stabbing

 
     

Arrest made

TORONTO - O’Marie Brooks died in hospital after being stabbed outside Randy’s Sports Bar on Keele St during a fight with another man just before 5am on Jan 1.  Nicholas Silvera has been charged with second-degree murder.   (CP24)  PREVIOUS:   Stabbing   Fatal bar stabbing  

Son found NCR

NEWMARKET - Andrew Roelink, 23, had sought out help in the year leading up to the events of Jan. 2, 2012, when he killed Hilda Roelink, his mother - an act he believed was killing a “demon.”  (Toronto Star)    MORE:   Man had 'significant problems'   Victim remembered  

 
     

Victim, accused identified

THOMPSON - RCMP have identified a man who died as 27-year-old Jarod Daniel Jensen of the RM of St. Andrews, MB. He was found badly injured in a Thompson home on Dec. 30 and later died in hospital.  Shane Corson Braun, 25, of Thompson was arrested in connection with the death.  (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Homicide investigation

Body found

PETERBOROUGH -  Dana Sue Cranwell, 27, drowned in the early morning hours Monday after she was unable to escape from the submerged vehicle.  Her brother, a 29-year-old Bancroft man, was the driver of the vehicle and has been charged with impaired driving causing death.  (Peterborough Examiner)

 
     

Impaired charge

WINNIPEG - Jesse Coutu, 32, of Winnipeg has been charged with impaired driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of an accident causing death.  (CTV)   MORE:   Man charged 

Killer charged

VANCOUVER - A convicted killer has been charged with the murder of a fellow inmate at a Mission prison.  James Saar has been charged with the second degree murder of Troy Robert Squires in Dec. 2011.  (CTV)

 
     

Youth charged

PLUM COULEE - Police were called to a home in Plum Coulee for a report of an injured man. When they arrived, they found a 42-year-old man dead.  A 14-year-old male youth has been arrested.   (CTV)   MORE:   Teen arrested   Teen killed father 

Fatal crash

REDNERSVILLE - Marilyn Boon, 56, of Ameliasburg was pronounced dead at the scene.  One of the involved drivers Matthew Cottrell, 60, was charged with driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit.  (CTV)  MORE:   1 killed in collision

 
     

Murder-suicide

CHETWYND - The names of the 2 people found deceased in a  Moberly Lake area home have now been released.  They are Adina Rose Napoleon, aged 49, and Eugene Sochan, aged 52, both of Moberly Lake.  The cause of death in both cases was a gunshot wound. Investigation has concluded that Mr. Sochan fired one  shot, which proved fatal to Ms. Napoleon, and then killed himself.  (250 News)    PREVIOUS:   Suspicious deaths   Deaths probed  

Youth arrested

PRINCE ALBERT - Police have arrested an AB youth as part of a homicide investigation into the death of Dakota Nayneecassum.  The male youth from Rocky Mountain House, AB, is the third person charged in the case.  Blake David Norman, 22, and Kyle Goodrick, 23, of Edmonton have already been charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 15 death of Nayneecassum.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   2nd man arrested  Man charged 

 
     

Guilty

VANCOUVER - 7 years after the Queen of the North ferry hit an island and sank, killing Gerald Foisy and his common-law wife Shirley Rosette, a jury has decided that Karl Lilgert, 59,  the crew member in charge of navigating the ship is responsible for their deaths.  (Vancouver Province)

Guilty of criminal negligence

Guilty

7-year wait too long for trial

Queen of the North

Karl Lilgert trial

Captain recalls sinking

Report may contradict testimony 

 
     

Guilty plea

TORONTO - A popular Toronto barber hit 4 times by a shotgun in his salon was killed in revenge for his refusing to pay for a broken, stolen laptop.  New details of the execution-style slaying of Christopher Thompson were released as Kevin Perez, 28, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder but guilty to second-degree murder.  (Toronto Star)  PREVIOUS:   Brothers charged   Barber not just 'some guy'    'Cold-blooded crime'    

Missing Canadian killed

LAHORE - Pakistani police informed the court that Rajvindar Kaur Gill, who was reported missing since August, had been killed soon after she arrived in the city.  Police had arrested a suspect - Hafiz Shahzad Hussain - who had confessed that he killed Rajvindar along with his cousin Shahid Ghazanfar, a German Pakistani.  (Indian Express)   MORE:   Canadian killed    Missing Canadian businesswoman killed

 
     

Shooting

MONTREAL - A masked gunman killed 1 man and seriously wounded another in a small café in St-Léonard in what is believed to be a Mafia shooting.  La Presse reported the shooting victim was Domenico Facchina.  MORE:   Mob foot soldiers shot  Police say no mob connections     Strong-arm shot

Legal limbo

GRENADA - The manslaughter case against 5 Grenada police officers accused of beating a visitor from Canada to death a year ago remains tied up in legal knots much to the disappointment of his widow.  (CP)   PREVIOUS:   3 more charged   Death stuns Grenada   Toronto man killed   Police 'abuse' blamed

 
     

2nd victim ID'd

HALIFAX - RCMP say that 59-year-old Earle Stewart's body was found in the rubble of the burned-out structure in the Sheet Harbour area.  Police had earlier identified Matt Hebb, 22, as the other person whose body was found following the blaze.  (CP)   PREVIOUS:   Victim identified   Men murdered   Deaths homicides

Stabbing victim dies

WINNIPEG - Police found Samantha Cherish Anderson, 24, suffering from serious upper body injuries and she was rushed to hospital in critical condition.  Shayla Elyshia June Woodford, 21, is now facing an additional charge of homicide.  (CBC)   MORE:   Victim succumbs to injuries  

 
     

What happened to Peter Gavin

EAST GWILLIMBURY - On Aug. 24, 2011 someone called York Region Police to say they’d better check on Peter Gavin.  On Aug. 27, a farmer reported a terrifying discovery near Warden Ave and St John's Side Rd: a human skull.  Police tests identified it as belonging to Peter Gavin.   (Toronto Star)   PREVIOUS:   Arrested   Man charged   Photo released

Man charged

CALGARY - On June 3, 2010, police and EMS responded to a home under construction in the 100-block of Panatella View NW.  Police say that Anto Slisko, 58, died as a result of blunt force trauma.  Branko Grgic, 48, was arrested in Vancouver and charged with second degree murder.  (CTV)    MORE:   Arrest made   Body ID'd 

 
     

Arrest

VICTORIA - Daniel Jordan Levesque died after he was stabbed in a Cormorant St apartment during what was described as a fight.  Charged with first-degree murder is Joshua Tyler Bredo.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:  Double stabbing   1 dead

Victim identified

WINNIPEG - Orland Joseph Adams, 49, was found badly beaten in a home in the 500-block of St Catherine St just before 10pm. He was rushed to hospital but later died.  (CTV)  MORE:   City's latest victim   Victim known to police 

 
     

Man charged

REGINA - Northbear Buddy Carrier has been charged with second-degree murder.  Tara Chartrand, 30, also known as Tara Shingoose, was reported missing in the fall after last being seen on Sept 28.  Her body was found in a house in the 1100-block of Cameron St.  (CBC)   MORE:   Police charge man   Body identified   Death ruled homicide

Texas sentence

HOUSTON - Predrag Perisic pleaded guilty to the 2010 shootings of his children, Deyan and Danyela, who were 10 and 12 at the time of the attack.  A judge sentenced Perisic to two concurrent 99-year sentences for his crimes. He is eligible for parole in about 40 years.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Canadian pleads guilty   10-year-old boy killed

 
     

32 months

VERNON - Chase Donaldson was sentenced to a total of 32 months in jail for striking and killing pedestrian Kiera-Leigh Carlson with his car on April 30, 2010 as Carlson walked to work along Aberdeen Road.   (Vernon Morning Star)   MORE:   Sentenced to prison   Street racing death in court   Woman found dead

2 charged

KENORA - OPP and fire department responded to a fire inside a residence in Kenora.  Peter Fisher, 20, and Ringo Carpenter, 22, have been charged with second degree murder and arson.  The deceased has been identified as Langford Ogemah, 21.  (Kenora Online)   PREVIOUS:   Suspicious death

 
     

Time served

REGINA - Justice Guy Chicoine sentenced Ronald Zerr to 9 years and Ashton Lavallee to 7 years in the Feb 2008 killing of Albert Lowenberger.  However, with two-for-one credit for the nearly 5 years the two men spent on remand, both were released from custody following the sentence.  (CTV)  MORE:   Pair released    Jury finds guilty

Victim identified

HAMILTON - Officers were called to the area of Blake St and Maplewood and found Shaun McCann, 27, of Hamilton on the street bleeding heavily from his neck.  Steven Corbett, 35, has been charged with second-degree murder.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Man arrested   Police investigate 

 
     

5 years

OTTAWA - Jeremy Rees got a 5-year prison sentence in the drunk driving case, which caused the death of 26-year-old Erin Vance.   (CTV)  MORE:   Drunk hit-and-run driver sentenced   Suspect turns himself in   Cops to lay charges

Body found

BARRA DE NAVIDAD - Ron Lloyd MacKintosh, a 64-year-old retiree from Nanaimo, BC, was reported missing Oct. 22. Detectives found his body in a wooded area about 3 kilometres outside his home.  (QMI)   MORE:   Canadian found dead

 
     

Found NCR

WINNIPEG - Something snapped inside the 19-year-old woman's head last fall and the result was a catastrophic crime that left her beloved 84-year-old grandmother dead.  The woman, who can't be named under a court order that also covers the victim's name, was found not criminally responsible (NCR) for the killing during a brief court hearing.  (Winnipeg Free Press)

Guilty plea

CHARLOTTETOWN - Ray Cantelo, 73, pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and leaving the scene of an accident.  Stacy Cheverie, 38, died and her husband, Bernard, was seriously injured when their motorcycle collided with a van at the intersection of Peakes and St. Patricks roads on Oct 22, 2011.  (CBC)   MORE:   Plea changed to guilty

 
     

Student shot

MISSISSAUGA - Ibrahim Abukar, 22, was shot dead on Corkstone Glade after allegedly breaking into a home with 2 other men. Police said a deadly struggle ensued after the intruders were confronted by the homeowner.  (Toronto Star)    PREVIOUS:   Intruder shot   Alleged robber   Home invader shot   Man shot dead   Man killed   Police seek 2 

Suspect named

OTTAWA - Police said that Adam Picard, 29, will appear in court on murder charges in connection with the death of Fouad Nayel.  The construction worker’s car was found in Sept. His body was discovered in Nov in a wooded area near Calabogie, ON.  (CBC)   MORE:   Mother suspected accused   Court appearance   Remains ID'd   Missing a homicide   Remains identified

 
     

Reward for info

HARRIETSFIELD - Police responded to a 911 call at a home on Whitehead Road in Harrietsfield shortly after 5pm on Feb. 20, 2009.  When they arrived on the scene they discovered Terry Marriott Jr, 34, had been shot. He later died of his injuries.  (CTV)   MORE:   NS rewards for unsolved crimes 

Suspect arrested

TORONTO - Toronto Police finally caught up with hit-and-run suspect Steven Paul Brunswick, on Thursday just after 3am.  (Toronto Star)   PREVIOUS:   Driver hits police cars   Wanted for hit-and-run   Sad reality   How police decide on charges in a fatal crash

 
     

Victim identified

THUNDER BAY - Jeffrey Morris Kakegamic, 32, is charged in the death of Martin Fabian Achneepineskum, 48.  MORE:   PREVIOUS:   Charged   McIntyre murder

Drug seizure

OTTAWA - Graham Thomas, 35, and Jason Chapman, 31, were shot and killed at Caribbean Exposure, a tanning salon in the east Ottawa mall in October 2011  (CBC) 

 
     

Possible murder-suicide

LONDON, ON - What became of Magda and Ed Amler remains a mystery with police saying one killed the other, then killed himself or herself, both dying of gunshot wounds.  A close neighbour says Magda was mostly confined to her Burlington St home because she could no longer walk - both were in their 80s.  (QMI)   MORE:   Murder-suicide baffles neighbours

Victim Identified

KAMLOOPS - The body of Summer Star Elizabeth Krista-Lee Fowler, 16, of the Gitanmaax First Nation Band, was discovered by a man walking his dog in an undeveloped part of the Guerin Creek neighbourhood at about 12pm.  RCMP believe Fowler was the victim of a homicide.  (CBC)  MORE:   Calls for inquiry     Girl murdered   Victim was missing Terrace teen

 
     

Student of murder

ANCHORAGE - An Alaska man who confessed to killing at least 8 people across the country had researched Ted Bundy and other serial killers, saying he recognized himself in them, investigators said Monday.  But Israel Keyes told Anchorage authorities his ideas were his own.  (Huffington Post)   PREVIOUS:   Serial killer dead   Facebook helps put face on alleged serial killer   Have you ever met Israel Keyes    Israel Keyes 

Charges laid

EDMONTON - Andrew Green, 46, was struck and killed by a passing SUV while he was placing safety triangles on the side of the road around 11:30pm on June 13.  Nearly 6 months later, police announced they charged the SUV owner, Kieran Porter, 35, with failing to stop at the scene of an accident causing death, careless driving and hit and run.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Victim identified

 
     

Volunteer was shot

COLLINGWOOD -  Susan Wells, a Collingwood native who died while volunteering in East Africa, was found with a gunshot wound to her head, says the Tanzania Police Force.  (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Volunteer was slain by machete   Woman dies while volunteering

Charged

WINNIPEG - Jeffrey David Peck, 50, was charged murder in the killing of Robert Frank Conroy, 19, inside Collin’s Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., in June 1982.  Robert Simpson, 50, of Montreal was also charged with first-degree murder.   (QMI)  MORE:   Biker charged    Simpson pleads guilty  

 
     

Man charged

EDMONTON - Police were alerted to the killing after the body of Temesgen Asfha, 43, was found on the road near 107 Ave & 103 St.  (CBC)  MORE:   'He was my best friend'    Body found   Suspicious death   Towed car may be linked

Victim identified

OTTAWA - Guo You (Keith) Ru, 25, was arrested after the body of Jai Le Zhao, 21, was found in the apartment they shared.  They lived on the third floor at 1189 Meadowlands Dr.  (CBC)  PREVIOUS:   Man in custody   Murder

 
     

Shooting

MILVERTON - Michael Schweitzer, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Nicole Wagler, a neighbour who lived a few houses away on the same street.  (QMI)

Man charged

COCHRANE - The driver of the sedan, 17-year-old Brandon Thomas of Cochrane, died at the scene.  Ryan Jordan Gibson, 22, the driver of the pickup truck, has been charged.  (CTV)

 
     

Man turns himself in

VAUGHAN - The 47-year-old surrendered at the Vaughan police station at 9:50am Thursday, about 3 hours after the crash claimed the life of a 52-year-old woman, said to be nearby resident Yu Cheng.  Gino De Luca is charged with failing to stop, failing to stop causing actual bodily harm and failing to stop causing death.   (York Region.com)

Father NCR

VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island man who stabbed his 7-year-old son to death has been found not criminally responsible for the killing by reason of a mental disorder.  Brent Warren, 44, stabbed his son, Jonathan, 27 times at their Campbell River home on July 27 last year.  (CTV)  MORE:   Father Not Criminally Responsible    Father was hearing voices   Father arrested after son's death

 
     

Conviction tossed

BARRIE - The Court of Appeal ruled the conviction of Clare Spiers, 48, was unconstitutional because members of the jury who concluded he strangled and repeatedly stabbed Mimi Khonsari, 60 were secretly vetted by the Crown.  Khonsari and her infant grandchild were abducted from her upscale home and her body was later found in a wooded area with 18 stab wounds to her neck May 21, 2004.  (QMI) MORE:   Verdict thrown out over jury vetting

Guilty

NIAGARA FALLS - The families of Cassey Cichocki and Diane Dimitri gasped then broke into applause after a jury said they had found Michael Durant guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.  Dimitri was 32 in 2003 when she went to a party at Durant's Niagara Falls home.  Court heard she was hit in the head with a hammer.  Cichocki's body was discovered in an isolated area in the north end of Niagara Falls in 2006. She was 22.  (QMI)

 
     

6 years

CHARLOTTETOWN -  Clarence Arnold Moase, 49, pleaded guilty to impaired driving in the death of Elizabeth Sovis, 63, of Edmonton.    (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Cyclist killed

Victim identified

IGLOOLIK - Tracy Uttak, 26, was found dead at a residence in the community.  A 16-year-old boy has now been charged with murder.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Reported stabbing

 
     

Shooting

TORONTO - Police and paramedics were called to the apartment at 2887 Keele St after a report of shots fired.  The victim, Edwin Carpio, 30, of Ajax, was found dead at the scene.   (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Victim identified   Shooting   Suspicious death   Man shot to death

Guilty

MONCTON - A New Brunswick man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his former girlfriend.  A jury convicted Fred Prosser, 33, of strangling Sabrina Patterson, 25.  (CTV)  MORE:   Guilty of 1st-degree    Mistrial   Ex-boyfriend charged   Body found   Body identified   

 
     

Charges to be laid

CALGARY - Police are expected to lay charges against 3 people in custody for the death of Ryan Lane.  Sheena Rempel and her brother-in-law Wil Rempel are under arrest, along with Tim Rempel , Sheena’s husband.  Sheena Rempel is the mother of Ryan Lane's daughter.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:    Remains found   Police find remains   Search for missing man

13 years

KELOWNA - Cory Wolf Swite had been found guilty by a jury for first degree murder of Olive Hill in 2009. An appeal was put forward, and in June of this year the decision was overturned because of the possible bias of jurors.  During his retrial, Swite pled guilty to the lesser offence of second degree murder.  (Penticton Western News)

 
     

15 years

TORONTO - Peer Khairi, a manipulative Afghan immigrant who murdered his long-suffering wife, Randjida, by almost decapitating her was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 15 years.  (QMI)   PREVIOUS:  Convicted   Guilty   Convicted of 2nd degree   Guilty

Guilty plea

VICTORIA - Gregory Brotherston, 31, admits he punched Richard Green outside the Country Rose Pub in Colwood on Oct. 8.  Green, who was intervening in an argument between Brotherston and a former girlfriend, died in hospital 2 days later.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Arrested 

 
     

Driver charged

MONTREAL - Samuel Poupart, 19, died when his car crashed into a hydro pole along a country road in St-Remi. The impact was so violent that his passenger, Catherine Leclerc, 15, was ejected from the car and killed.  Maxime Poissant, was charged with dangerous driving causing death while street racing.  (CTV)

2nd man charged

TORONTO - Jamahl Franklin, 20, was gunned down on New Year's Day near a home on Hupfield Trail in the Malvern area.  Mauro Granados-Arana, 23,  is charged with second-degree murder.  Baptists Bernier, 22, of Toronto was charged with second-degree murder. (CityNews)   PREVIOUS:  Man charged   Arrest   2 men killed 

 
     

Arrest

SAINT LUCIA - Police on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia have arrested a man over the death of a 75-year-old PEI man.  Colin Peter and his wife were walking on a beach near their resort nearly two weeks ago when he was robbed and beaten.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Police react to Canadian visitor's death   Canadian killed 

2 charged

DARTMOUTH - Dustin Brian Hales, 37, of Dartmouth, and his wife Victoria Ann Weir-Hales, 26, were arrested Saturday. Christina Cline, 27, was found dead on a remote path in Shubie Park on Nov. 19, 2011.  (Halifax Chronicle Herald)  MORE:   Couple charged   Murder charges   Police seize car   Hunt for clues 

 
     

Murder-suicide

TORONTO - Police were dispatched to a home on Ladykirk Ave at 12:30pm on Wednesday.  Leonilde Cabral, 70, was found with obvious signs of trauma and was pronounced dead at the home, while her husband Armando, 74, had life-threatening injuries. He died of his injuries in hospital.   (CityNews)   MORE:   Senior killed wife   Murder-suicide 

Guilty

WINNIPEG - 2 young men have been found guilty for shooting 2 people at a Winnipeg house party.  The men were just teens, aged 16 and 17 at the time.  Tyler "T.J." Hawula and Matthew Reynolds, both 18, were killed in the Dec. 5, 2009, shooting in the 400-block of Martin Ave.  (CBC)   MORE:   2 found guilty   Video catches lie   2 killed at house party   

 
     

2 convicted

VICTORIA - A BC Supreme Court jury has convicted Andrew Belcourt of the second-degree murder of a 52-year-old Fernwood man during a home invasion in March 2010.  The jury also found Samuel Mcgrath guilty of manslaughter in the death of Leslie Hankel.   PREVIOUS:   Murder case  

Man turns himself in

TORONTO - A man has turned himself in to the police saying he was involved in Friday’s hit-and-run that left a cyclist dead.  Miguel Oliveira, 22, has been charged in connection with Tom Samson’s death.   (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Accused appears in court   Cyclist dies

 
     

Woman pleads guilty

CALGARY - Leslie Nicole Bird, 34, pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing the death of Robert Bird, 22, who died from his injuries the day after the Nov. 25, 2010, collision.  MORE:   Guilty plea

Victim identified

CALGARY - Tariq Sikandar, 24, was shot and killed after two men forced their way into a home in the 100 block of Martinvalley Mews NE.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Multiple shooting  Shooting linked to drugs, OC  

 
     

Charges in 3 homicides

SASKATOON - 3 people have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lorry Ann Santos, who died after being shot through a window at her Saskatoon home earlier this year.  Police announced that Joshua Dylan Petrin, 29, of Edmonton, Wayne O'Hagan, 22, of Lloydminster, AB, and Kyle Darren Halbauer, 22, of Lloydminster are accused of participating in the death of Santos on Sept. 12, 2012.  In addition to the Santos homicide, Halbauer and O'Hagan are also charged with the death of Bryan Gower, killed in Kitscoty, AB on Sept. 25, 2012.  O'Hagan and a fourth man, Nikolas Nowytzkyj, 32, have been charged with the murder of Robert Roth Senior, killed in Ranfurly, AB on Oct. 20, 2012. (CBC)  

 

Suspects in 3 homicides

3 charged

Gang members got wrong house

White boy Posse 'incredibly violent'

Victim identified

Victim died in shooting

Homicide

Suspicious death

Decapitation victim identified

Gang link

Police investigate 

 

 
     

Stabbing victim

SAINT JOHN - Police say 18-year-old Andrew Dennison of Saint John died after he was stabbed on Nov 3 at a house on Prince Street West.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Man dies after stabbing

Homicide

EDMONTON - Officers were called to the home on 113 Ave and 94 St at about 8:30pm Monday.  Police identified the deceased as 23-year-old Aden Ahmed.  (CTV)   MORE:   Police probe stabbing   Suspicious death  

 
     

Son to be assessed

OTTAWA - Rene Goudreau, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 53-year-old Lucie Goudreau, who died in the fire in a main-floor apartment at 90 Woodridge Crescent.   (CBC)   MORE:   Son charged   Man charged  Mental health history    

Search for remains

HAMILTON - Shirley Treadwell, 62, is believed to have died sometime in 2009. Police and volunteers are combing an area of farmland about 37 acres in size where Treadwell's remains are thought to be located.  (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Who was Shirley Treadwell?

 
     

Fire homicides  

MONTREAL - Police on patrol spotted flames coming from the third floor of an apartment building on Ontario St.  Once the fire was out firefighters discovered the bodies of two people who have yet to be identified.  (CTV)  MORE:   2 die in fire    Police confirm double murder   

Man charged

TORONTO - Police were called to an apartment building on Kendleton Drive.  The victim has been identified as 59-year-old Leah Edwards.  Ian Gray, 50, of Toronto, faces a single count of second-degree murder.  (CBC)  PREVIOUS:   Suspicious death   Body found 

 
     

Victim ID'd

MONTREAL - Police said they found Lawrence Lee's body an hour later in a car, a Lexus SUV, in the city's east end. Lee had a bullet in his head. The victim was known to police.  (QMI)  PREVIOUS:   Suspicious death   Le Presse

Homicide

EDMONTON - Police said the Medical Examiner determined that Cameron Thomas, 26, died of gunshot wounds.  His body was found at about 3am on Sunday, Nov 11, in a parking lot in the area of 34 Ave and 92 St.  (CTV)   MORE:    Shooting

 
     

Shooting

MONTREAL - The victim, Tony Gensale, 43, had been shot in the upper body and was declared dead on the scene.   (CTV)  MORE:   Victim known to police   5 murdered in 48 hours   Daytime shooting 

Man charged

EDMONTON - George Andrew Campbell, 51, has been charged with one count each of second-degree murder, aggravated assault and possession of an offensive weapon in the death of Douglas Gladue, 50.  (CTV)

 
     

Charges

OCHRE RIVER - The 45-year-old victim was found with stab wounds and was transported to hospital, where he died.  Police said his name will not be released.  RCMP said Desi Ronald Nepinak, 25, was arrested and has been charged with second-degree murder.  (CTV)   MORE:   Cops make arrest   Stabbing

Body found

BARRA DE NAVIDAD - Ron Lloyd MacKintosh, a 64-year-old retiree from Nanaimo, BC, was reported missing Oct. 22. Detectives found his body in a wooded area about 3 kilometres outside his home in Barra de Navidad.  Police have 3 or 4 suspects in custody who are believed to have robbed him.   (QMI)   MORE:   Expat found dead

 
     

Warrant issued

MISSISSAUGA - Abdullahi Mohamoud, 22, failed to attend a recently scheduled Ontario court date related to the May 19, 2011 incident in which Hashem Atifeh Rad, a Brampton gas station attendant was struck and killed.   (CTV)  

Man faces charges

Arrest in ‘gas and dash’

Suspect arrested

Attendant dies

Worker dies

 
     

Body ID'd

FREDERICTON - Police say  Alicia Dawn Boone, 26, was about 7 months pregnant.  Her body was found in a ditch along Killarney Road just before 1:30pm.  (CTV)   MORE:   Wait for autopsy results

Victim dies in hospital

TORONTO - Police say a man who was shot on College St near Bathurst St on Sunday has died in hospital.  The victim has been identified as Qoheleth Chong, 23.    (CityNews)   MORE:   Man dies  

 
     

Stabbing

VICTORIA - Officers arrived at the three-storey apartment building at 614 Grenville Ave about 9pm Friday after receiving reports of a stabbing.  Darrell Wayne Johnson, 49, has been charged with the second-degree murder of Clifford Roy Antonsen, 57.    

Death ruled murder

FORT FRANCES - OPP officers continue to investigate the death of a male at the Mid-Town Motel here last week.  The deceased was identified as Leo Whitecrow, 45, of Seine River First Nation.  (Fort Frances Times)  PREVIOUS:    Suspicious death   Suspicious death probed  

 
     

2nd suspect arrested

MISSISSAUGA - On June 7, 2011, officers found the body of Keith Brissett, 32, outside an apartment building on Rexwood Road.  Homicide detectives announced they had arrested Junior Moy-Lingomba, 22, of Brampton and charged him with first-degree murder.  They arrested a second man, Anthony Borden, 21, of Mississauga, and charged him with first-degree murder as well.  (CityNews)  PREVIOUS:   Arrest   Shooting   Police hunt for suspects

3rd man arrested

WINNIPEG - Police have arrested a third suspect for the shooting that claimed the life of Jordan Dennis Houle, 24.  Michael Frank Okemow, 24, and Edward Arthur Coutu, 27, both of Winnipeg, have been charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder.  Clinton Jordan McKenzie, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   2nd man charged   Victim's sister also died tragically  

 

 

 

 

5th person charged

EDMONTON - Police have charged a fifth person in the fatal stabbing of 22-year-old Michael Motiuk last summer.  At the time, witnesses said several young people attacked Motiuk and another male at a home at Mill Woods Road E, shortly before 5am on Aug. 6th.  (CBC)  

 

5th person charged

2 charged

House party death

Suspicious death

Man dead

 

 
     

Suspicious death

WINNIPEG - Police were called out to a Manitoba housing complex in the 300-block of Assiniboine Ave around 12:15pm on Nov. 6.  Police identified the man as Hank Louis Lecoy, 55.   (CTV)   MORE:   Police investigating   Homicide   Body found 

Guilty plea to 2nd degree

TORONTO - Spring Phillips, 26, offered Levi Aggek her couch in her 27th floor apartment at 200 Wellesley St E on Dec. 4, 2009. Aggek pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.  (Toronto Star) MORE:   20 years   Victim 'too trusting'   Man charged

 
     

Driver arrested

WINNIPEG - Julia Romanow, 17, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.  (CBC)   MORE:   Student killed in crash

Victim ID'd

BAXTERS CORNER - The RCMP confirmed Ryan A. Firlotte was the person found shot outside of a home in Baxters Corner.   (CBC)   PREVIOUS:   Shooting

 
     

Son charged

INNISFAIL - Police say the body of 58 year-old Timothy Guibault was found oin his residence at Red Loge Estates.  Police have charged Aaron Guilbault, 31, with second-degree murder.   (CBC)   MORE:   Son charged   Victim former alderman  

Suspect surrenders

TORONTO - The victim, a 30-year-old man from Toronto, was hit by a Mercedes SUV that fled the scene on Yonge St. at Stouffville Rd.  He was hit a second time by a Honda Fit.  Choo-Beng Quah, 53, of Richmond Hill faces 3 charges.   (Toronto Star)   PREVIOUS:   3 vehicles strike pedestrian

 
     

Guilty plea to 2nd degree

IQALUIT - Joyce Kringuk, 32, a Repulse Bay woman who shot and killed wildlife officer Joani Kringayark the evening of Aug. 8, 2008 at his cabin near Repulse Bay pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.      (Nunatsiaq News)  MORE:   Guilty plea

Son arrested

OSHAWA - Police have charged Francesco (Frank) Cara with second-degree murder after his father was fatally stabbed in their Oshawa home on Feb. 15.  Claudio Cara, 56, was found on Waverly St N.   (CityNews) PREVIOUS:  Homicide  Homicide confirmed

 
     

Victim ID'd

TORONTO - The body of Rita Adams, 59, was found inside a home on Maynard Ave around 2pm.  Police believe Adams knew her attacker.  (CityNews)   MORE:   'Spiritual adviser' murdered   Homicide

Guilty

MIRAMICHI - A NB jury has found Curtis Bonnell, 32, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Hilary Bonnell.  Hilary was 16 when she died in 2009. (CBC)  MORE:   Guilty of 1st degree murder

 
     

Murder-suicide 

MONTREAL - Police suspect the 2 bodies found in a burning van in Park Extension were a murder-suicide.  Officers say the victims (Pirapakaran Navaratnam and Yogarani Kunaratnam) knew each other and were not, at the moment, a couple.   (CTV)  MORE:   Bodies ID'd   2 bodies found in burned car  

Charge laid

CALGARY - Police responded to a 911 hang up call from a residence in the 200-block of 11 St NE. at about 2:30pm and found Isaac Patrick Crowchild, 26, dead inside the home.  Robert Darrel Morrison, 43, faces one count of manslaughter   (CTV)  PREVIOUS:   Homicide probe   Man found dead

 
     

Man charged

REGINA - RCMP have charged Keith Dunford, 44, with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death.  Ashley Dawn Richards, 18, of New Brunswick was working as a flag person when she was fatally struck by an SUV in a construction zone on Aug. 24.  (CTV)  

Police make arrest

WINNIPEG - Police identified Adam Jackson Nattaway, 39, as the man who lurched into the Pizza Shack at Sargent Ave, clutching his slashed and bleeding throat.  Within minutes, Nattaway was dead.  Edmond Seymoure Wescoupe, 49, was charged with manslaughter in the slaying.  (Winnipeg Free Press)  MORE:   Man charged   Manslaughter charge    Stabbing

 
     

Victim a mystery

TORONTO - Marvin Engelbrecht, 24, was gunned down in Lawrence Heights.   (Toronto Sun)  PREVIOUS:   Victim dies   Shooting

Victim ID'd

THUNDER BAY - The preliminary results from a post-mortem examination of Salvatore Larizza's body point to foul play.  (CBC)  MORE:   Suspicious death  

 
     

Charges upgraded

ST PAUL - Megan Wolitski, 11, was one of 3 girls pinned underneath a van that plowed through the St. Paul junior high school Oct. 25.  Richard Edward Benson, 46, of St. Paul, was charged. (QMI)  PREVIOUS:   Student dies   Family believe driver was having seizure

Murder

BRAMPTON - Officers learned of the death around 5:30pm after someone in the house on Zia Dodda Crescent called 911.  When police arrived at the scene, they found Andrew “Freshie” DaCosta, 19, with obvious signs of trauma.  (CityNews)   MORE:   Homicide   Death a homicide 

 
     

Police identify man

TORONTO - Police and paramedics were called to a home on Military Trail just after 1pm, Sunday.  Police have identified the man as Jay Bennie Yabut, 28, of Toronto.  (CityNews)   MORE:   Man shot   Police seeking tips  

Police appeal for help

TORONTO -  Leonard Charles Fullerton, 26, was shot multiple times and died from a gunshot wound to the torso. (Toronto Star)   MORE:   Victim 'leading a double life?'   Video of car released   Shooting   Victim identified  

 
     

Murder-suicide

MEDICINE HAT - Aaron Matthew Eremenko, 44, of Medicine Hat, was taken to hospital, but later died from his injuries.  Inside the home police also found the body of Donald Wayne Neufeld, 54.  It is believed Neufeld died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and Eremenko was murdered.  (QMI)   MORE:   Apparent murder-suicide   Murder-suicide

Victim identified

CALGARY - The body of Lacey Jones-McKnight, 20, was found in a car not far from where a police officer rescued a man trying to hang himself - identified by family as Jones-McKnight's estranged boyfriend, Tray Guenther.  (QMI)   MORE:   Ex-boyfriend   Ex-fiance stalked victim   Calls lead to dead body

 
     

Murder-suicide

CALGARY - Police were called to an apartment in the 200-block of Templegreen Drive NE on Oct 31 by the resident manager of the complex.  When police entered the unit, they found the bodies of 27-year-old Amiben Prajapati and 32-year-old Hiren Prajapati.  Police say that Amiben was the victim of a homicide.  She died as a result of a stabbing.  Hiren died of asphyxiation.  (CTV)   PREVIOUS:   Autopsies conducted   Couple found dead 

Man left outside to die

WINNIPEG - Three middle-aged women and a man have been charged with manslaughter after a fight turned deadly.  They were at a drinking party in the 300-block of Aberdeen Ave when a fight broke out.  Leroy George Ross, 38, succumbed to his injuries.  Mary Sue Harper, 37, Linda Margaret McDougall, 35 years, Debbie Rose Redskye, 42 and Swanson Annanias Ross, 42 have been detained in custody on manslaughter charges. (Winnipeg Sun)   MORE:   4 charged with manslaughter

 
     

Man charged

KAMLOOPS - RCMP say Gerald Peters, 48, is well known to police, as was his partner Deborah Joseph, 48.  Police found the woman dead at the home.  (CP)   MORE:   History of domestic violence  

Man charged

NEW ANNAN - Police say Paul Gerard Cormier, 53, of Summerside died at the scene of the crash.  Police say the driver, a 57-year-old man faces charges of impaired driving causing death.  (CTV) 

 
     

Man charged

BURLINGTON - A 52-year-old Hamilton woman is dead and Kyrie McKay, 21, is facing an impaired driving charge after a collision at Harvester Road in Burlington.  (CityNews)   MORE:   Woman killed  

Victim ID'd

TORONTO - Julian Richard Lee, 31, died at an industrial plaza at 1970 Ellesmere Rd.   (CBC)   MORE:   Man identified   Police identify murdered man  Woman forced to watch   Man discovered dead    

 
     

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