deadmonton 2006 - december crime report
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Enough Is Enough is not enough
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Police seek person of interest in McGillis case
On December 13th, 2006 Edmonton police released two photos of a woman they believe is connected to the stabbing of 20-year-old Dylan Cole McGillis.
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The pictures are from a Whyte Avenue bar security camera, taken November 19th – the night McGillis was fatally stabbed. It was not revealed which bar the security video came from.
Investigators hoped the woman’s pictures would lead them to suspects in the slaying.
“We need to identify this female. We believe she is a witness to the event and has knowledge of the people responsible,” said Det. Ernie Schreiber, the lead investigator on the case.
Schreiber said the woman, who has long blonde hair and was wearing a jacket with a furry hood, is not a suspect but witnessed the attack on McGillis.
He stressed he just wanted to speak to the woman and did not believe she had any criminal involvement in McGillis's death.
Those with information about the incident or the identity of the woman are asked to contact Edmonton police at 423-4567, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or online at www.tipsubmit.com - a secure tip submission web site.
For more information about the case, visit the Last Link Dylan Cole McGillis page.
Enough Is Enough is not enough
Within 36 hours of the media launch of Edmonton's Enough Is Enough anti-violence campaign, four men suffered stabbing and beating wounds in separate incidents across the city early in the morning of December 23rd, 2006.
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An assault outside a bar near 77th Avenue and Calgary Trail left one man with severe head trauma. He and another man were transported to University Hospital where they were listed in stable condition.
The two men had apparently gotten into a fight and knives were involved.
A few blocks north at 81st Avenue and Calgary Trail, a man was treated for wounds suffered after being attacked with a machete.
Another man was severly beaten in an after-hours fight outside the Diamonds Gentlemen's Club at 46th Avenue and Gateway Boulevard.
The incidents happened within a four-hour timespan.
The attacks prompted retired University of Alberta criminologist Keith Spencer to explain to CTV Edmonton cameras, "Well, it's the Christmas spirit as we would say."