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S STORY
Beaten, stabbed, left to die
Body lay in middle of busy street for hours after vicious attack by six men
Ian Williams
The Edmonton Journal
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Jason Franson, The Journal / The body of a man lay on 95th Street for hours on Monday, blocking traffic and attracting onlookers, as police investigated the death. It was moved at 9:30 a.m.
Jason Franson, The Journal / Police investigate the scene after a man was brutally beaten near 95th Street and 108A Avenue.
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EDMONTON - Ignoring his pleas to stop, six men savagely kicked, beat and stabbed another man to death, leaving his body lying in the middle of a north-side street.
"They really didn't care about what happened. I mean to stab a guy how many times they stabbed him, that's not right," said eyewitness Brandon Moore who watched the barbaric killing unfold on the front steps of his rooming house near 108A Avenue and 95th Street.
Moore and his girlfriend, Jennifer Unetic, newly arrived in Edmonton, awakened just after 4 a.m. Wednesday to the sounds of yelling, screaming and swearing.
Unetic recalls: "I just woke up and I could hear some guy yelling and he was yelling, 'I have no money. I have no money.'
"I went to my front living room window where I saw this guy beating on this other guy and these other guys were all coming up."
That's when Moore pushed her out of the way. "I didn't want her to see that," he said.
Three men surrounded the victim, he said, while three other men stood on the street.
"Basically there was a lot of yelling and screaming. He had already been stabbed twice in the chest area somewhere and the guys were still demanding money. He was still standing, talking to them and they stabbed him again, I don't know how many times. He still didn't go down.
"And they started swearing at him, saying he was crazy. They pushed him up against the glass on the door and the glass shattered. They stabbed him again, kicked him a few times. And they ran north on 95th Street."
Moore said the victim staggered down the stairs and eventually fell face down in the middle of the street.
"Then maybe 30 seconds later another male came back and took a piece of glass, ran up to the man because he was collapsed and stabbed him in the back six or seven times. He did it twice.
"The first time he struck him, I was kind of wondering what he was doing, hitting him on the back. He ran north again and returned another 30 seconds later and did the same thing only this time I noticed the glass in his hand. He stabbed him another five or six times in the back, kicked at him, swore at him and then headed south."
Moore was stunned by the viciousness, especially with six men against one.
"It was pretty brutal and there was really nothing I could do about it. I have no phone or the cops would have been there a lot sooner."
As soon as the last man left, he went out to the street where a motorist had already stopped.
"He checked his pulse rate. He was still breathing at that time. By the time the cops got here, paramedics got here, they pronounced him dead."
Unetic said she had heard a story the victim might have been at a nearby party and had been running from the six men.
Sgt. Patrick Tracy said investigators are looking at the possibility the victim might have attended a nearby party.
"We know that there were several disturbances and house parties in the immediate area in the neighbourhood earlier in the evening that our members responded to and so we're looking at these."
Tracy said patrol members in the area didn't recognize the victim who was carrying identification.
Meanwhile as the police investigation lengthened into the morning, spectators stood outside the La Dolce Vita Cafe & Bar, sipping espressos and watching police go about the homicide investigation, the victim's body lying in the road covered by a red plastic tarp.
About 9:30 a.m. police and medical examiner officials wrapped the body in a sheet and took it away for an autopsy, leaving behind a pool of blood staining the street.
Some people wondered why the investigation had taken so long and why the covered body was left in the street.
"We certainly don't get any delight or pleasure in having a body lying around for the public to see," said Tracy. "We have to take things as protocol stipulates. We just have to take our time and make sure we don't rush because sometimes the smallest thing might be something that could speak to a huge part of the ingredients of solving a crime."
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http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=2DC98801-77EE-4C38-BBAA-07D2508E2D67
S STORY
Beaten, stabbed, left to die
Body lay in middle of busy street for hours after vicious attack by six men
Ian Williams
The Edmonton Journal
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Jason Franson, The Journal / The body of a man lay on 95th Street for hours on Monday, blocking traffic and attracting onlookers, as police investigated the death. It was moved at 9:30 a.m.
Jason Franson, The Journal / Police investigate the scene after a man was brutally beaten near 95th Street and 108A Avenue.
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EDMONTON - Ignoring his pleas to stop, six men savagely kicked, beat and stabbed another man to death, leaving his body lying in the middle of a north-side street.
"They really didn't care about what happened. I mean to stab a guy how many times they stabbed him, that's not right," said eyewitness Brandon Moore who watched the barbaric killing unfold on the front steps of his rooming house near 108A Avenue and 95th Street.
Moore and his girlfriend, Jennifer Unetic, newly arrived in Edmonton, awakened just after 4 a.m. Wednesday to the sounds of yelling, screaming and swearing.
Unetic recalls: "I just woke up and I could hear some guy yelling and he was yelling, 'I have no money. I have no money.'
"I went to my front living room window where I saw this guy beating on this other guy and these other guys were all coming up."
That's when Moore pushed her out of the way. "I didn't want her to see that," he said.
Three men surrounded the victim, he said, while three other men stood on the street.
"Basically there was a lot of yelling and screaming. He had already been stabbed twice in the chest area somewhere and the guys were still demanding money. He was still standing, talking to them and they stabbed him again, I don't know how many times. He still didn't go down.
"And they started swearing at him, saying he was crazy. They pushed him up against the glass on the door and the glass shattered. They stabbed him again, kicked him a few times. And they ran north on 95th Street."
Moore said the victim staggered down the stairs and eventually fell face down in the middle of the street.
"Then maybe 30 seconds later another male came back and took a piece of glass, ran up to the man because he was collapsed and stabbed him in the back six or seven times. He did it twice.
"The first time he struck him, I was kind of wondering what he was doing, hitting him on the back. He ran north again and returned another 30 seconds later and did the same thing only this time I noticed the glass in his hand. He stabbed him another five or six times in the back, kicked at him, swore at him and then headed south."
Moore was stunned by the viciousness, especially with six men against one.
"It was pretty brutal and there was really nothing I could do about it. I have no phone or the cops would have been there a lot sooner."
As soon as the last man left, he went out to the street where a motorist had already stopped.
"He checked his pulse rate. He was still breathing at that time. By the time the cops got here, paramedics got here, they pronounced him dead."
Unetic said she had heard a story the victim might have been at a nearby party and had been running from the six men.
Sgt. Patrick Tracy said investigators are looking at the possibility the victim might have attended a nearby party.
"We know that there were several disturbances and house parties in the immediate area in the neighbourhood earlier in the evening that our members responded to and so we're looking at these."
Tracy said patrol members in the area didn't recognize the victim who was carrying identification.
Meanwhile as the police investigation lengthened into the morning, spectators stood outside the La Dolce Vita Cafe & Bar, sipping espressos and watching police go about the homicide investigation, the victim's body lying in the road covered by a red plastic tarp.
About 9:30 a.m. police and medical examiner officials wrapped the body in a sheet and took it away for an autopsy, leaving behind a pool of blood staining the street.
Some people wondered why the investigation had taken so long and why the covered body was left in the street.
"We certainly don't get any delight or pleasure in having a body lying around for the public to see," said Tracy. "We have to take things as protocol stipulates. We just have to take our time and make sure we don't rush because sometimes the smallest thing might be something that could speak to a huge part of the ingredients of solving a crime."
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