Murder preliminary inquiry
A preliminary inquiry for four men accused of kidnapping and murder will pick up again next summer.An inquiry for the foursome began Aug. 17 and was extended for a second day. During the second day, an additional four weeks were ordered.
The preliminary inquiry will pick up again on June 3 and is scheduled to run a full four weeks.
All details of the preliminary inquiry are under a publication ban, including why the additional four weeks were ordered.
After the extension was announced, a fifth person was charged in the death of a man whose body was found in rural Sturgeon County in October 2017.
Sterling Devon Martin McGilvery, 24, Skylar Taurus McGilvery, 21, Tyler Edmund Fischer, 31, and Cougar Dominique Fafard, 24, all face first-degree murder and kidnapping charges in the death of Kevin Dean Damien Yellowbird. Tanisha M. Desjarlais is now also facing charges in the death.
Yellowbird, 27, was found in a ditch on a rural road in Sturgeon County on Oct. 17, 2017. RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Hal Turnbull said investigators believe Yellowbird passed away “some time before” Oct. 17.
Murder trial arraignment
A woman accused of killing a St. Albert senior has been ordered to stand trial and will be arraigned in 2019.Beryl Musila has been charged with first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in the death of 75-year-old Ronald Worsfold.
A three-day preliminary inquiry ran on March 1 and 2 2018 but a third day had to be arranged to get through all of the evidence. After the three days wrapped, a judge ordered Musila to stand trial.
Worsfold went missing on July 7, 2017 and his body was found in a rural area of Parkland County near Stony Plain two days later.
The trial will take place in Edmonton at the Court of Queen’s Bench. The trial dates have not been selected yet but Musila's charges will be read into court on Feb. 15 in Edmonton courtroom 315.
Fatality inquiry scheduled
An inquiry into the 2015 deaths of Const. David Wynn and the man who shot him, Shawn Rehn, is slated to begin in April of this year.Judge Bruce Garriock will hear from Inquiry counsel Lionel Whittaker. The process will focus on what happened the night Wynn was shot and how it happened.
The inquiry will also look into the police involvement and if the applicable protocols were followed. Garriock said the inquiry will also focus on examining the changes that have been made to the provincial bail program since the incident.
Auxiliary Const. Derek Bond, who was the officer with Wynn the night of the shooting and who also suffered a gunshot wound, will not be asked to testify at the inquiry. The inquiry will rely on his transcript of the events taken after the incident rather than call him to testify, which Garriock and Whittaker agreed could be traumatic.
Wynn was shot and killed by Rehn, a habitual offender who was out on bail at the time of the shooting. Rehn had more than 30 outstanding charges but was released without his criminal history being presented in court. A police officer conducted Rehn’s bail hearing.
The inquiry will run from April 24 to 26 at the St. Albert Courthouse beginning at 9:30 a.m.
