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Bilby Street death ruled a homicide
Number 11 for HRM . Man, 32, likely killed weeks ago By PATRICIA BROOKS ARENBURG Staff Reporter Wed, Jun 29 - 2:30 PM A man found dead in his Bilby Street apartment Monday was the victim of a homicide, Halifax police said today. The victim has been identified as Shawn Andrew Mead, 32, of 5529 Bilby St. An autopsy on Tuesday confirmed police suspicions, Const. Brian Palmeter said. "With the ruling from the medical examiner's (office). . . this just clarified what we're dealing with." Neighbour Chris Bhola told thechronicleherald.ca Monday that he and other neighbours hadn’t seen the victim recently and noticed flies around the building on Sunday. Bhola said the door to the man’s second-floor apartment was open and he could see legs sticking halfway out into the hallway. Bhola said someone else called police, who responded just after noon. Mead, believed to have been doing dry-walling work, had lived in the upper flat of the two-storey building for more than three years, he said. Investigators have spoken to friends, family and neighbours, Palmeter said, and police now believe Mead was killed about three or four weeks ago. "We're interested in speaking with anyone regarding his activities around that time period, to try and narrow down the time frame a little bit," he said. This is the eleventh homicide in the Halifax Regional Municipality so far this year. ( pbrooks@herald.ca) |
Looks like St. John's has its first homicide of the year. I was really hoping we'd have a murder-free year, but that may be out the window now.
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^ I was just about mention that.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a...e-reserve?bn=1
Five year old shot and killed on Samson reserve near Hobbema What a sad situation |
The St. John's murderer has been caught and charged with second degree murder, the victim was his friend.
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RE St. John's murder: Why am I not surprised that this murder had something to do with drugs/theft/general underworld sketchiness. This place is going straight to hell in a hand basket. I'd expect a few more of these types of events to start creeping up very shortly. |
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It's ironic; wealth brings some of the same problems as poverty. |
This is not the first time an innocent child has been caught in the crossfire in Hobbema. I used to have to go there for work occasionally, the place just makes me want to weep.
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^ I thought gangs were only a big city problem.
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It's even worse in fly-in communities. On an almost monthly basis, people from Southern Ontario are arrested in Thunder Bay for trafficking prescription drugs while on their way to fly-in communities. We have newsworthy drug busts about every two weeks, and they only put a dent into the drug trade up here.
That's the problem with giving provinces the bulk of the social responsibilities and removing their authority from First Nations. There is a void of responsibilities above First Nations governments. The federal government only provides about half of the funding for social services that a province provides to its municipalities for the same services, without giving First Nations the rights over resources and property ownership that provinces and their municipalities have. It's a recipe for economic and social disaster. |
^ and 90% of the money goes straight into the chief's pocket.
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That's not entirely a band issue. (Ideally, they wouldn't do that.) The law gives them a disproportionate amount of control over that money and they keep a lot of it, and it isn't really wrong for them to do so.
The Indian Act has to be abolished or at least amended to prevent those kinds of things. Aboriginals can't change those laws. All Canadians will have to fight for that change. |
Winnipeg woman may be facing 5th, 2nd degree murder charge, as man dies in hospital 2 days after 4 other people died in a deliberately set fire in the city's Point Douglas neighborhood. Winnipeg police has a new policy that discourages local media from releasing the updated number of homicides. While we have about 20 so far this year. We are well behind Edmonton for the unfortunate title of murder capital of Canada.
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Montreal had its first one since early May yesterday. Its the 19th of the year.
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St. John's is potentially reporting homicide 2 (and maybe even 3) as of today. It may be too soon to judge, but this could be a murder/suicide case. Even so, two or three homicides in the run of 2 weeks is abnormally rare for this city, when the current homicide rate for the city is only about 2 homicides a year.
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Edmonton is at 32...
what is the issue with Edmonton?? |
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