[mersar]

Another year, another tally.

And unfortunately Calgary may be off to a bad start, not confirmed yet as a homicide but there was suspicious death early this morning.

[1ajs]

Violent Start to 2008 in Selkirk
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A 17-year-old male is in custody in connection with a fatal stabbing in Selkirk.

RCMP say a 16-year-old male was stabbed early Tuesday morning at a New Year's house party. The suspects name is not being released.
RCMP continue to investigate, along with Winnipeg's Major Crimes Unit and Identification Unit. CJOB's Brenton Driedger reporting.

[Rico Rommheim]

Happy happy new year!

[Only The Lonely..]

Violent Start to 2008 in Selkirk
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A 17-year-old male is in custody in connection with a fatal stabbing in Selkirk.

RCMP say a 16-year-old male was stabbed early Tuesday morning at a New Year's house party. The suspects name is not being released.
RCMP continue to investigate, along with Winnipeg's Major Crimes Unit and Identification Unit. CJOB's Brenton Driedger reporting.

Looks like Metro Winnipeg logged the first kill of 2008.

Maybe 2009 will be a murder free year like Quebec City, but i doubt it.

There were a few shootings in the last two nights as well.

Shot Fired at Elgin Ave. Store
DEC 31 2007 11:40 PM


Police are still looking for suspects who allegedly shot at a convenience store on Elgin Avenue in Winnipeg.
Police went to the store in the 14-hundred block of Elgin shortly before 11 A-M Monday.

Earlier, a pair of robbers, one armed with a gun, had entered the store. The owner ran to the back, closed the door, and hit the alarm.

The robbers ran outside and allegedly fired at least one bullet at the store before taking off. No one was hurt.

Police continue to investigate

Police search for shooter
DEC 30 2007 11:30 AM

Winnipeg police continue to search for a male wanted in connection with a shooting on College Avenue.

Three males were in the 500 block of College early Saturday when they came across a male and female arguing. The three intervened, stopping the argument when the male walked away.

A short time later, a car came down the street and shots were fired at the three males. A 13 year old youth was hit in the upper body. He was treated in hospital and released.

Police describe the suspect male as being in his twenties. He was wearing a white hoodie, baseball cap and jeans. He was riding on a small, newer model blue four door car.

Police continue their investigation.
Ken Klassen reporting.

[Only The Lonely..]

Does anybody really expect the murder rate for Canadian Cities to be any different than it was last year?

I imagine it will pretty much be the same.


Homicides in each city
2006 2007 Population


Toronto 70 82 2,503,281

Montreal 42 39 1,620,693

Edmonton 36 33 730,372

Calgary 44 38 988,193

Winnipeg 22 26 633,451

Ottawa 16 14 812,129

Saskatoon 9 6 202,340

Windsor 5 3 216,473

Quebec City 7 0 491,142

Regina 8 5 179,246

Source: CanWest News Service / Statistics Canada

[mersar]

Those statistics are way off, as was pointed out in the other article that had them.

Overall the rate will probably be about the same though year over year.

[1ajs]

Magnus Killing
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Winnipeg police are investigating the first homicide of 2008.

Constable Jacqueline Chaput tells CJOB the call came in at 2:40 a.m. (wed) regarding a shooting at a residence in the 600 block of Magnus Street between Mackenzie and Parr Streets.
She says the woman who was shot was conveyed to hospital with life threatening injuries, but succumbed to her wounds.
Chaput says the shooting does not appear to be a domestic matter, partly because the woman was inside the home when she was shot while the shooter was outside the house.
The woman's age has not been released, and police say there have been no arrests yet or information available on any suspects.
The homicide unit is investigating a number of witnesses. CJOB Colleen Bready reporting.

[Tony]

Toronto has one as well, 14 y-o female, Police caught the two little pricks who did it too.

[Only The Lonely..]

Magnus Killing
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Winnipeg police are investigating the first homicide of 2008.

Constable Jacqueline Chaput tells CJOB the call came in at 2:40 a.m. (wed) regarding a shooting at a residence in the 600 block of Magnus Street between Mackenzie and Parr Streets.
She says the woman who was shot was conveyed to hospital with life threatening injuries, but succumbed to her wounds.
Chaput says the shooting does not appear to be a domestic matter, partly because the woman was inside the home when she was shot while the shooter was outside the house.
The woman's age has not been released, and police say there have been no arrests yet or information available on any suspects.
The homicide unit is investigating a number of witnesses. CJOB Colleen Bready reporting.

Another Winnipeg shooting in the North End?

Boy, gun violence is sure going up.

[1ajs]

Another Winnipeg shooting in the North End?

Boy, gun violence is sure going up.
same house to

[Only The Lonely..]

same house to

Really? Wow..

Years ago it seemed that only a small handful of murders occured by gun. Now it seems like the preferred weapon of choice in Winnipeg.

[SteelTown]

Toronto has one as well, 14 y-o female, Police caught the two little pricks who did it too.

Slain girl is daughter of T.O. police officers
Updated Wed. Jan. 2 2008 6:30 PM ET

toronto.ctv.ca

A 14-year-old girl who died after being stabbed on New Year's Day is the daughter of two Toronto police officers, CTV News has confirmed.

Police have not identified the victim, who died after being attacked on Tuesday night. She is the city's first murder of the year.

On Wednesday, police arrested a 17-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl and charged them with first-degree murder.

[matt602]

Damn :(

Toronto gets off to an early start as usual. I'm betting Hamilton will have it's first at some point this month as well, though it'll probably still be a quiet year.

[vid]

Thunder Bay will have one by the end of the month. 2006 and 2007 were both like that. A murder in late January then another in November or December.

[PhilippeMtl]

Quebec City got his first murder since OCT 2006.

[Nicko999]

Quebec City got his first murder in 14 months.

Well, it needed to happen someday! Just wish it is the last.

[mersar]

Well Calgary is officially at 1 now.

Police Confirm Man Found Dead in Altadore Was Murdered
Jan, 03 2008 - 1:40 PM

CALGARY/AM770CHQR - Calgary police have confirmed the death of a man, who's body was found Tuesday in Altadore, was a homicide.
33-year-old Mohamed Aman was found dead around 10am New Year's Day in the 1900 block of 49th Avenue southwest.
The autopsy has confirmed Aman was murdered and died of a stab wound.
Calgary police are still trying to figure out how he ended up dead on a stranger's lawn.

[1ajs]

Really? Wow..

Years ago it seemed that only a small handful of murders occured by gun. Now it seems like the preferred weapon of choice in Winnipeg.
a 28 year old mother of 4 that was due next month gee sounds like breeder of scum...
not be be racist but my observation is quite true but i could be way off but the house is known to police... so my veiw is extreamly bias on this one... still someone died and thus the criminal still needs to be punished!

but yea weird how 2 years ago it was all knifes and now guns are realy starting to take hold scary shit...

though they did ketch the guys from the night club shooting back in october today

[Nutterbug]

Does anybody really expect the murder rate for Canadian Cities to be any different than it was last year?

I imagine it will pretty much be the same.


Homicides in each city
2006 2007 Population


Toronto 70 82 2,503,281

Montreal 42 39 1,620,693

Edmonton 36 33 730,372

Calgary 44 38 988,193

Winnipeg 22 26 633,451

Ottawa 16 14 812,129

Saskatoon 9 6 202,340

Windsor 5 3 216,473

Quebec City 7 0 491,142

Regina 8 5 179,246

Source: CanWest News Service / Statistics Canada


Conspicuous by its absence...a certain city that begins with 'V'.

[1ajs]

Conspicuous by its absence...a certain city that begins with 'V'.
now thats odd

[MonkeyRonin]

Conspicuous by its absence...a certain city that begins with 'V'.

And one with an 'H'. Actually, make that 2 with an 'H', and another with a 'V'.

And regarding those numbers, Toronto finished with 84, Montreal with 41, and Calgary with only 30. Not sure about any of the other cities.

[1ajs]

winnipeg finished with 26

[SteelTown]

I have no clue how many murders there were in Hamilton, been pretty quiet, I'm gonna guess 3 or 4.

[Nicko999]

first murder of the year in Montreal:(

[Nicko999]

By The Canadian Press

Montreal police say a man found shot in a condominium parking garage is the city's first reported homicide of 2008.


Police say the victim is in his 40s and was found lying between two parked cars by tenants of the building in east-end Montreal about 1 p.m. today.


Montreal police spokeswoman Lynne Labelle says a firearm and shell casings were also found near the body.


It is unknown if the victim was a resident of the condominium.


Montreal police major-crimes squad detectives are investigating.


They say they think the victim may have been killed early Monday morning.

[ssiguy]

a certain "L" city is also missing and 2 cities that start with "Saint".

Odd they would not include all CMA.

[mersar]

Deadly Stabbing in Quiet Southwest Neighbourhood
Jan, 09 2008 - 2:30 PM



CALGARY/AM770CHQR - Calgary police are on the scene of what could be the city's second murder of 2008.
Investigators and paramedics were called to a home in the southwest community of Rosscarrock around 1:30pm Wednesday.
The victim, believed to be between 30 and 40 years of age, suffered critical stab wounds and died in hospital.
Homicide detectives are on scene investigating what police are calling a 'suspicious death'.
Neighbours say they're shocked by the incident.


2 for Calgary now :(

[Xelebes]

Edmonton's first murder?

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=852b74c5-0dc0-48b2-ac16-b2c5924b3310

Woman's frozen body found lying outside northside townhouse
Mike Sadava, The Edmonton Journal
Published: 1:03 am

EDMONTON - Police are investigating the suspicious death of a young woman whose body was found frozen outside a north-end townhouse on Tuesday morning.

A resident of the Parkview townhouse complex near 150th Avenue and 118th Street reported the body shortly before 10 a.m.

[mersar]

The ME confirmed Calgary's #2, and Edmonton's ME determined that suspicious death there wasn't a homicide.

[mersar]

And possibly #3 for Calgary now, they found a body in a parking garage over by broadcast hill.

Edit: Yep, #3 is confirmed

Police Confirm Third Homicide Of 2008 In Calgary
Jan, 11 2008 - 3:20 PM



CALGARY/AM770CHQR - Police have released the name and cause of death of a man found dead in the parkade of a southwest condo Wednesday.
Police say 22-year-old Allan Richard Teather was shot to death.
His death has now been confirmed a murder - the third of the year in Calgary.
He was found in the Prominence Point condo parkade around the dinner hour, but investigators believe the body may have been there for several hours.

[Canuck]

Toronto is sitting at 1.

[1ajs]

were at 2 atm

a rather odd event the homicide unit was called to a agrivated asult today..

From The Crime File...
JAN 11 2008 11:20 AM
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The Winnipeg Police Services' Homicide Unit is looking into an aggravated assault. Police say an unidentified youth was found unconscious early Friday morning in the 400 block of Kennedy. Constable Jeff Norman says it's not standard for the Homicide Unit to investigate in this type of situation, but adds they were called in because the boy was in critical condition when he went to hospital. Norman says the matter is being treated as suspicious, adding the boy was not suffering from any obvious injuries like gunshot or stab wounds. Police have charged a 22-year old man in connection with the theft of jewellery from a home in River Heights. Police say the suspect was driving a stolen vehicle when police caught up to him last month. That's when they found the jewellery. Police linked it to a residential robbery on Renfrew Street. Roderick Desmond Kyle Stranger has been charged with break, enter and theft, uttering threats, and breach of probation.
Police found crack cocaine, cash, and two firearms in the execution of a search warrant today in the 300 block of Inkster. 23-year old Marc Stephen Girouard faces numerous charges.
CJOB's Lorne Edwards reporting.

[CANAUS]

Toronto is at 2 homicides after a shooting death on Yonge street on Saturday morning (1am).

[Aylmer]

Ottawa is still clean!

People seem to be dropping like flies in other cities (Toronto,Calgary,Edmonton,Montreal)...

[theman23]

Don't worry, I'm still around. Just got done boarding up my last window!

[Xelebes]

The ME confirmed Calgary's #2, and Edmonton's ME determined that suspicious death there wasn't a homicide.

Woohoo! We're still clear and we are entering the the middle of January!

Edit - 2 murders so far on the Hobbema Reserve.

Hobbema RCMP investigate suspected homicide
Jim Farrell , edmontonjournal.com
Published: 1:10 pm

EDMONTON - Hobbema RCMP are investigating what is suspected to be the second homicide of the new year on the Hobbema reserve.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=d5196a1c-5671-4aba-8f2c-2e6b51d1e1c0&k=67237

[Boreal]

Ahh, I see Canada's heavy hitters in this catergory are quick out of the gates. For a mid-size centre, Winnipeg sure manages to keep pace with the big boys :(.

[ScottFromCalgary]

And possibly #3 for Calgary now, they found a body in a parking garage over by broadcast hill.

Edit: Yep, #3 is confirmed

Strange, there was a rash of murders in early January 2007 as well.

[SHOFEAR]

How long can Hobbema keep up with the lead pack?

[CANAUS]

The third for Toronto. Yet another innocent bystander shot in Riverdale of all places. A place mostly devoid of any serious gangs. Gun crime is a growing scourge in many Canadian cities it seems. You would think that the government would actually do something about it.

[oilsmack99]

I wish government would do something about people who say government should do something. Oh shit! :koko:

Everyone talks about Edmonton, but my point of view is if it isn't tourists, business travellers, or pillars of the community, arrest the murder suspect and then move the hell on. The people who are dying, and where they are dying don't cause me to shiver in the night. :hell:

[1ajs]

looking at crimestat winnipegs crime rate is down 47% so far this year? over this same time period last year jan 1st to jan 13 this weeks data will be posted next week... wish it was live

and in the north end of the city concerderd a crime riden gehto shit hole by many in this city its down 67%

[dansk]

What is going on in Calgary sounds like we may be at 4 now?

[O-Town Hockey]

looking at crimestat winnipegs crime rate is down 47% so far this year? over this same time period last year jan 1st to jan 13 this weeks data will be posted next week... wish it was live

and in the north end of the city concerderd a crime riden gehto shit hole by many in this city its down 67%

I don't think you can read anything from a 2-week sample of crime statistics. There are too many other factors that can alter crime rates over such a short period of time including weather, a single crime spree, large econonomic shifts, large events).

[tablemtn]

Two people were gunned down (fatally) in downtown Vancouver tonight. It has been an otherwise quiet year there.

[1ajs]

I don't think you can read anything from a 2-week sample of crime statistics. There are too many other factors that can alter crime rates over such a short period of time including weather, a single crime spree, large econonomic shifts, large events).
this year was warmer during this time period then last year... but then the drope is mostly in the autotheft area....

[vid]

7 years for murder
Sarah Elizabeth Brown | January 22, 2008, 7:56 pm
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/top_story.php?id=87533

A young man who burst into a 62-year-old‘s apartment and beat the man to death with a steel pipe has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

After taking into consideration time already spent in custody, the sentence means 4 1/2 years in a federal penitentiary.

Justice Joyce Pelletier sentenced Louis Moonias, 18, Tuesday morning after hearing submissions from lawyers in December.

Moonias was 17 when he was arrested and charged with the second-degree murder of 62-year-old Thomas Allen Killingbeck on March 9, 2006.

He pleaded guilty in September 2007 to manslaughter, a crime that would bring a maximum of three years in jail as a youth. Though adult manslaughter has a maximum of life in prison, sentences usually fall in the five- to eight-year range.

Because the Crown applied to have Moonias sentenced as an adult, and the defence consented, his identity can be published.

The agreed statement of facts provided to the court earlier outlined a night of Moonias and two other men consuming beer and prescription narcotics.

The other two men provided statements to police.

For rest of story, click link above.

The above involves the first of three murders in 2006. We're still at 0 for 2008. This day last year we had our first homicide of 2007; a woman was found dead in an apartment and police withheld information for almost a week.

[gatt]

#1 for Ottawa.a 22 year old man killed his father.

[O-Town Hockey]

The accused is a paranoid schizophrenic and his father was a really nice man. I met them many times. Very tragic.

[mersar]

What is going on in Calgary sounds like we may be at 4 now?

Yep, at 4. They still haven't officially identified the latest victim, though the chance its not the person that they think it is is pretty slim. And they're still asking for the public to help them find her purse.

For those who haven't heard about it, it appears that the lady (in her early 40's) was followed from the CTrain and killed beside the church adjacent to one of the NE CTrain stations in a random attack. Happened just days before council was set to look at a safety audit of the transit system, so this just made it impossible for them to not authorize the audit.

[lubicon]

Calgary stands at 4, none of them solved. I don't remember the exact count for 2007 but it was around 28-29 I think. Of those 14 or 15 remain unsolved. That is the most troubling part to me, the very high percentage of cases that are unsolved.

[vid]

Calgary stands at 4, none of them solved. I don't remember the exact count for 2007 but it was around 28-29 I think. Of those 14 or 15 remain unsolved. That is the most troubling part to me, the very high percentage of cases that are unsolved.

Probably due to the high transient population. We have a murder from 2005 that is still unsolved, the guy who did it was likely a transient as he is nowhere to be found.

[mersar]

I believe that a large number of the unsolved from last year are gang related, so the individuals involved may not be transient, but for the most part anyone involved did their utmost to not help CPS. Most of the solved ones were related to domestic situations from what I recall, although there were a few unrelated to gangs that are still pending as well.

[240glt]

Seems to be the gang & drug related murders that go unsolved.... those don't worry me near as much as someone getting killed trying to break up a fight outside a bar, as happened here in Edmonton a week or so back

[gatt]

The accused is a paranoid schizophrenic and his father was a really nice man. I met them many times. Very tragic.

sad!:(

[craneSpotter]

Don't think this has been posted...Van is at ?? 4-5

Shit :)

Vancouver shooting bears hallmark of gang hit

From Monday's Globe and Mail

January 21, 2008 at 12:44 AM EST

VANCOUVER — Two men were shot to death just outside a swank, high-end restaurant frequented by celebrities and Hollywood stars on Saturday night, ending a brief lull in the city's spate of gangland violence with a hail of gunfire.

The victims had been on their way to a private party at the Gotham Steakhouse and Cocktail Bar when two assailants gunned them down before horrified pedestrians thronging Seymour Street in the heart of downtown Vancouver, an area packed with bars, coffee shops and late-night grocery stores.

Police spokesman Constable Tim Fanning said it was fortunate no one else was hurt in the brazen attack.

“It was alarming to everyone down there. People were just shocked that this would happen in such a busy, busy area,” Constable Fanning said.
Bodies lie on the pavement beside a Range Rover outside a popular restaurant on Seymour Street in Vancouver early Sunday.

Bodies lie on the pavement beside a Range Rover outside a popular restaurant on Seymour Street in Vancouver early Sunday.

The private party, booked into a secluded downstairs room at the restaurant, was to have celebrated the recent engagement of one of the victims, 37-year old Ricardo Francis Scarpino of West Vancouver.

One of the invited guests dropped a loaded semi-automatic handgun when stopped by police as he attempted to leave the premises, moments after the shootings. He was arrested and is facing charges of having an illegal weapon and cocaine possession.

Constable Fanning said Mr. Scarpino was familiar to police for his criminal associations and was almost certainly the prime target of the well-executed hit.

“He was obviously on somebody's list to kill…. They lay in waiting and picked their opportunity to do this.”

Mr. Scarpino was convicted and served time for heading up a huge cocaine smuggling ring based in Victoria in the late 1990s.

But the convictions were subsequently stayed several years later by the Crown for undisclosed reasons, and Mr. Scarpino was soon released.

In 1993, Mr. Scarpino killed a man in a busy Los Angeles restaurant, while acting as a bounty hunter. He was not charged with murder, however, because investigators could not disprove Mr. Scarpino's claim that he acted in self defence.

He had also served time for property theft.

Constable Fanning said the second victim, a 38-year West Vancouver resident described as a friend of Mr. Scarpino, was not known to police. His identity is being withheld, pending notification of next of kin.

The attack took place while Mr. Scarpino and three passengers were still inside his black 2007 Land Rover that had pulled up to the restaurant.

A pair of black-clad gunmen ran up and pumped numerous bullets at the victims, before dashing off down a nearby alley. Two handguns were found a block away.

Mr. Scarpino was killed right beside his fiancée, who had been sitting in the front seat of the Land Rover.

“She is very, very distraught, as you can imagine,” said Constable Fanning. “It was an absolutely horrific thing to happen on what was supposed to have been a very joyous evening.”

The Gotham Steakhouse, located in a refurbished art deco building beside the Hudson's Bay store, is often a dining retreat for celebrities, attracted by its dark, secluded interior and reputation for good wines and excellent cuisine.

Past guests have included Halle Berry, Pierce Brosnan, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Hugh Jackman, Kid Rock and Michael Buble.

General manager Christopher Langridge said that, as far as he knew, members of the private party had not eaten previously at the restaurant.

“We've had prime ministers and so many celebrities here. This was a very rare situation. It's certainly not an everyday event for our staff and our guests,” Mr. Langridge said.

A woman who lives in the area told reporters that she rushed to the scene after hearing as many as six shots.

“I'd never seen dead people before. It was horrible,” said the woman, who identified herself only as “Charm.”

“One of the bodies was pulled onto the sidewalk. You don't expect to have people being gunned down on your back door step. It's really shocking.”

The killings were the first serious gang-related violence since Lower Mainland police formed a highly publicized Violence Suppression Team in early November, in the wake of a raft of gangland homicides in the city and surrounding suburbs, including the slaying of six people in a Surrey apartment.

Police suggested that gangs were lying low because of their stepped-up anti-gang activities.

“It's been pretty quiet for a long time,” said Constable Fanning, “But sadly, we were not able to prevent this double homicide. There are a lot of guns out there and a lot at stake in the criminal world…. Complete eradication is almost impossible.”

Reacting to the weekend homicides, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan stopped short Sunday of endorsing Toronto Mayor David Miller's call for a complete ban on handguns.

“My understanding is that these handguns are being smuggled into Canada, so they are not legal to begin with,” Mr. Sullivan said. “But I certainly support anything that will be effective against these gangs.”

A better way, the mayor argued, is to consider legalizing drugs or giving the green light to his plan to wean addicts off drugs by prescribing legal alternatives.

“If you eliminate profits from illegal drugs, there would be no violence,” Mr. Sullivan said.

[fortroad]

Man shot dead in inner city Edmonton home
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 | 4:26 PM MT
CBC News
An unidentified 27-year-old man, who was shot Tuesday at an inner city triplex, is Edmonton's third homicide of 2008.

The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m. MT in a house at 112 Avenue and 90 Street in north central Edmonton, police said.

A 27-year-old man was shot and killed at this house at 112 Avenue and 90 Street Tuesday.
(CBC) When officers arrived, they found a man inside with a gunshot wound to the chest. Paramedics treated him and took him to hospital where he died, police said.

Investigators are looking for three or four suspects who fled the scene wearing masks. They are also interviewing witnesses who were inside the residence at the time. Police won't say how many people were in the house when the shooting occurred, or provide any more information about the victim.

Neighbour Roger DeJordy told CBC News the house where the shooting happened is rented to people who come and go at "all hours of the day and night."

The neighbourhood is known for prostitutes and drug houses, he said. Although in the past few years, more owners have been fixing up their homes and the problems have decreased, DeJordy said.

[Canuck]

Toronto is at 4, a man died of his injuries after being shot earlier in the week.

2 of these murders were innocent bystanders. Tragically sad. The police have people in custody for the first one, but they are are still looking for tips on the second.

[mersar]

Definately sad when innocent bystanders get caught up. Theres been a few cases of that happening in Calgary last year.

They've also arrested a person in connection with the last homicide in Calgary, and supposedly are looking into whether he may be involved in a few incidents (assaults, rapes and possibly 2 murders) from the past year or so.

[mersar]

Calgary is now at 5.

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The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has completed an autopsy on a body found Tuesday, in northwest Calgary.

The victim, identified as a 17-year-old black male, cannot be named until the Calgary Police Service has notified his next of kin. Efforts are currently being made to do so.

The Medical Examiner has determined this male was the victim of a stabbing. This is Calgary’s 5th homicide of 2008.

At approximately 3:15 a.m., on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, emergency crews responded to the area of 25 Avenue and 5 Street N.W., where they discovered the deceased man.

Homicide investigators continue to try and locate a woman who went to a nearby convenience store to seek help from employees.

[lubicon]

Calgary is now at 5.

It happened fight in front of my co workers house. They woke up to find a crime scene out the front window. He actually had to cross the yellow tape to get to his house (with permission). They didn't hear a thing in the night, but he says there are tire tracks on some grass that look very out of place (ie not on the road).

[MTLskyline]

In general is there any time of year when you notice that murders tend to spike in your city?

In Montreal it seems most murders take place in the middle of winter, and in the middle of summer. Spring and fall seem to have less homicides.
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[mersar]

Calgary seems to have a spike in January most years, we're already at roughly 1/5 of our count from 2007, and I believe by the end of January 2007 we were at a similar count as well.

[KrisYYC]

Man, I just got back from the gym, and while I was slogging away on the treadmill a familiar face caught my eye on one of the TV screens. It was a Global News story about Brad Worobeck who's been missing since Jan. 18th. I went to all levels of school with Brad and we played little league baseball on the same team back in the day. I hope to god he's not number 6. :( :(

[mersar]

Man, I just got back from the gym, and while I was slogging away on the treadmill a familiar face caught my eye on one of the TV screens. It was a Global News story about Brad Worobeck who's been missing since Jan. 18th. I went to all levels of school with Brad and we played little league baseball on the same team back in the day. I hope to god he's not number 6. :( :(

Let's hope so.

Calgary's #5 this year now has an arrest, they arrested a 19 year old (at the time of arrest yesterday, today was actually his birthday which is confusing the news stations it seems) in connection as he was waiting on a plane to about to fly to Montreal.

[MonkeyRonin]

2 more people were shot today, bringing TO up to 6 (5 at this time last year), 5 of which were shootings...

[asher11]

2 more people were shot today, bringing TO up to 6 (5 at this time last year), 5 of which were shootings...

. . . and it barely made the news, after the weather, traffic chaos due to the storm, that baby found abandoned somewhere east of Yonge St and even Brittany Spears making it to the nuthouse (at last). We're becoming immune (unless it's an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire). But -- the usual "he was known to the police" . . . meh, that's the way it goes.

[LFRENCH]

wahoo ring up one for victoria

bout freakin time, time to step out the door and start shooting.

tragic though she was actully 24 and good looking;)

[mersar]

wahoo ring up one for victoria

bout freakin time, time to step out the door and start shooting.

tragic though she was actully 24 and good looking;)

Yeah, heard about that one. Her family is from Calgary so there was some mention in the local papers about it.

[PhilippeMtl]

Montreal is at 3 confirms and 2 pending after a criminal blaze.

[mersar]

Winnipeg has added another 3 after a shooting on Saturday morning.

Calgary is still at 7

[Doady]

Mississauga recently got its 6th murder, putting its 2008 murder rate above most other Canadian cities, including Toronto...

[JuelzJones]

Toronto-13 (should be at 14 or 15-two people are still in hospital with serious bullet wounds)
Peel-9
York-1
Durham-2

Total GTA so far-25


Edmonton-8
All together Metro of Edmonton-9

[Dmajackson]

Halifax had its first over the weekend. 17yo was arrested and charged shortly afterwards.

Does anyone remember when the stabbing in the Windsor Apartment happened? because the news said this was the first murder but that was sometime recent.

[LordMandeep]

whats going in in Peel, woh..

[PhilippeMtl]

I think Montreal is at 7. If we continue like this, we will have less than 25 murders this year.

[vid]

Thunder Bay is still at 0. This time last year we had 1.

[Nicko999]

Thunder Bay is still at 0.

Maybe because you're the only one who lives in TB:haha:

[1ajs]

Maybe because you're the only one who lives in TB:haha:

then tb is ripe for rebuilding into the world capital :banana:

[CANAUS]

Toronto according to police stats is still at 13.

[DC83]

I think Hamilton is at 2 so far... some idiot purposely drove into a group of teens last week killing one of them. Idiot!

[vid]

Maybe because you're the only one who lives in TB:haha:

Yes, I am the city's sole occupant. That is a completely logical assumption!! Kudos to you for figuring it out!!

[CMD UW]

Edmonton at 9: Man stabbed late last night, robbery suspected.

[O-Town Hockey]

Is it just me or does Edmonton really sound like the wild west? With all the economic action in Alberta it seems that the crime rate is following suit. Is there a gang problem down there or is it drunk oil workers that are shooting and stabbing eachother?

[vid]

Large aboriginal and transient populations. It's a problem for cities from Thunder Bay to the rockies.

[vid]

Workers find body
Tb News Source | Web Posted: 4/15/2008 7:47:00 PM
http://www.tbsource.com/Localnews/index.asp?cid=106733

Some local construction workers made a grisly discovery on Tuesday when they came across human remains near the former Riverside Grain terminal site (http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=48.375794,-89.247984&spn=0.003784,0.007682&t=h&z=17).

Thunder Bay Police were called after the body of a man was discovered around 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. No positive identification has been made and police investigators are treating the entire compound as a homicide site.

Family and friends of missing 22-year-old Adrian Spade were looking on as officers gathered evidence around the scene near the Kaministiquia River. Police won't comment on the condition of the body but say even if an identification could be easily made, it would compromise the crime scene.

''That is possible to do that but it would be catastrophic to the crime scene. Because the crime scene has to be processed in such a way that it's not contaminated,'' Thunder Bay Police Det. Sgt. Scott Smith said.

A post mortem will be carried out to determine the identity of the victim and the cause of death. The police investigation around the site was expected to carry late into the evening.

...

[youngregina]

Regina is at 3 now.

[vid]

Body identified as Adrian Spade
Tb News Source | Web Posted: 4/16/2008 1:37:42 PM
http://www.tbsource.com/Localnews/index.asp?cid=106742

Thunder Bay police have identified the body of a man found Tuesday near the old Riverside grain terminal. Dead is 22-year-old Adrian Spade. Spade was last seen April 1 near the West Hotel on Simpson Street.

Police are treating the death as suspicious.

“Presently foul play can not be ruled out,” said Det.-Sgt. Scott Smith. “And we can not say at this point if it is a homicide or not.'

Smith added the area where Spade was found is still cordoned off by police, pending a post-mortem that will be done in Toronto.

Very unfortunate. Still at 0 until this case is figured out.

[Nicko999]

Montreal is at 8.

[rrskylar]

Winnipeg at 14, on pace to set record, already tied with TO!



Winnipeg is on pace to surpass 2004 as the record year for murders.

Magdalena and Joel Labossiere, shot to death Sunday in their St. Vital home, brought the city's homicide count to 14, just four months into the year.

Police crime statistics show that this year's rate has almost doubled from 2007 - From Jan. 1 to Apr. 13 of that year, eight homicides were recorded. There were 26 by the end of the year.

Winnipeg's record for homicides in one year was set late in 2004, when 48-year-old Ralph Bell was stabbed to death in a domestic dispute at a Main Street apartment suite. He became the year's 34th Winnipeg homicide statistic, eclipsing the previous record of 30 in 1987.

In 2005, homicides dropped dramatically to 25. By 2006, it was 22.

Const. Pat Chabidon said other units in the department are pitching in to assist homicide detectives with their growing workload, but there's little they can do to affect the homicide rate in a city beset with gang and drug problems.

"Most of the homicides in this city end up being fuelled by the drug trade or gang activity - if you are involved (in these) you increase your chance of suffering a violent death," Chabidon said, adding he wasn't blaming the victims of the homicides, but rather that there's a criminal element that leads to violent crime.

Chabidon added that while citizens in Winnipeg not involved with gangs or drugs are relatively safe, there's little police can do to cool off the rate at which killings happen.

"The hard thing for us is that homicide for us is an after-the-fact thing," he said.

Police said that traditionally the summer months are when a spike in murders takes place, and the rash of them so far this year is disconcerting.

"I don't even want to think of where we're going this year...it's not summer yet," Chabidon said.

In virtually all of the 2004 slayings, the victim knew the assailant, but a marked difference is that only 10 of all the incidents that year involved guns.

Ten of this year's 14 killings to date have involved the use of a firearm.


And:

Toronto enjoying period of tranquility
No homicides for past month, police say

By: James Turner

Updated: April 22 at 02:00 AM CDT



AS Winnipeggers reel from a spate of recent homicides, it has been eerily quiet in the centre of Canada's universe.

Up until last Thursday, Toronto hadn't recorded a single homicide in exactly a month, indicating that the megacity could be on a course to slash its murder rate by nearly half from the 84 that took place there last year.

Prior to the stabbing incident that left Joseph Samai, 29, dead, the last murder in the big smoke was on Mar. 18, when 35-year-old Sasha Haroutiun was killed after being shot inside his loft.

Winnipeg and Toronto have now each recorded 14 homicides this year.

However, a Toronto Police Service spokesman indicated the dip in homicides in the country's largest city is likely an anomaly.

Mark Pugash said while Toronto police are grateful for the quiet, the numbers will likely climb as 2008 continues.

"What we see over the course of the year is a period where we'll go several weeks without any homicides, then we've had weekends where we'll have three or four," Pugash said.

Winnipeg's murder rate has been running at a fever pitch, with nine homicides in less than a month.

Like Winnipeg, the Big Smoke is also noticing a dramatic spike in homicides involving guns in recent years - out of the 84 murders there in 2007, 43 were gun-related.

Six of Winnipeg's last nine homicides have involved guns.

Pugash said gun crime comes in waves. "One of the possible explanations for the increase last year was there appear to be many more that were targeted, homicides which our chief has called assassinations," he said.

Winnipeg police are beefing up efforts in problem areas of the city to address the frequency of handgun incidents and violent crime. They say many of the homicides in the city are linked to the gang and drug trades.

james.turner@freepress.mb.ca

[drew]

This year has been crazy in Winnipeg so far. Must have been a lot of pent up rage carried over from last year...

The triple and double homicides are unusual here at any point, let alone occurring within a month... it will be interesting to find out the background of these multiples as the investigations go forward...

[Biff]

This year has been crazy in Winnipeg so far. Must have been a lot of pent up rage carried over from last year...

The triple and double homicides are unusual here at any point, let alone occurring within a month... it will be interesting to find out the background of these multiples as the investigations go forward...



....some guy thinking he should be the sole heir to a $1.3 million dollar estate

[LordMandeep]

AS Winnipeggers reel from a spate of recent homicides, it has been eerily quiet in the centre of Canada's universe.

Really do the papers in the west really call us that????

[swilley]

Saskatoon now has 2, woohoo!

[rrskylar]

Really do the papers in the west really call us that????

And worse, also: TO, hogtown, Canada's New York City!

[JuelzJones]

Winnipeg is having a pretty bad 1st half of the year, but im 95% sure that they won't keep this up until the end of the year

Winnipeg should end with around 33

Toronto is at 15, down from 20 last year

[mersar]

Calgary is at 9 following what appears to be a murder-suicide yesterday. Police got called to a house in the deep SW and found a woman inside who had been strangled, hours earlier her husband was killed in what they've described as a deliberate head-on collision between his car and a semi on a highway heading out of the city.

[mersar]

Calgary is now at 10 following a shooting in the NW on Wednesday.

[youngregina]

what is regina at now?

[mersar]

Calgary is now at 11

Stabbing turns fatal
POSTED AT 7:46 AM Wednesday, May 28


Calgary homicide detectives are investigating a fatal stabbing.
Two young men, believed to be in their early twenties, were rushed to Foothills Hospital after being stabbed near a downtown LRT station.
It happened Tuesday night just before 10:30 p.m. at the 7th Avenue and 8th Street SW platform.
One died from his injuries.
The second victim is in serious but stable condition.
Police are still looking for at least one suspect.