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Man accused of stabbing Kamloops Walmart employee awaits bail hearing next week

KAMLOOPS - The man accused of stabbing a loss prevention officer in Walmart remains in custody awaiting a bail hearing scheduled for next week.  Police arrested Connor Busteed Dufresne, 19, after responding to reports of a stabbing at Walmart on Nov. 9. The employee was taken to Royal Inland Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.  Dufresne...

UPDATE: Stabbing at Kamloops Walmart under investigation

KAMLOOPS - Police have a suspect in custody after a loss prevention officer was stabbed at Walmart yesterday evening. The officer attempted to stop a 19-year-old man who left the store without paying, before the suspect stabbed the officer and fled on foot yesterday, Nov. 9, Cpl. Cheryl Bush says in a press release. Bush...

Accused bus stabber makes court appearance in Kelowna

KELOWNA - Nearly one year after a Kelowna man was stabbed to death in an allegedly unprovoked and brutal attack on a transit bus, the suspect is in court to find out if there is enough evidence for the trial to proceed. Tyler Jack Newton, 25, is charged with second degree murder for stabbing 55-year-old...

Downtown stabbing sends one to hospital in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS - A 23-year-old is being treated for serious injuries at Royal Inland Hospital after he was stabbed in a downtown parking lot Thursday evening. Around 7:20 p.m., Aug. 13, RCMP were called to the 7-Eleven on Seymour Street for reports of a stabbing. They found a 23-year-old male with serious, but non-life threatening injuries...

Man arrested following stabbing at a Kamloops gas station

KAMLOOPS - A fight between two men in the parking lot of a North Shore Esso gas station ended when one of the men was stabbed in the back early this morning. RCMP were called to the disturbance in the 200-block of Tranquille Road just after midnight, July 30. Const. Jason Epp of Kamloops RCMP...

UPDATE: Stabbing on downtown Kamloops street

KAMLOOPS – A 48-year-old Kamloops man remains in hospital in serious condition, but stable condition, after he was stabbed during a fight on the street in the city's downtown early Sunday morning. RCMP say the stabbing victim called 911 around 5 a.m., July 19, from the intersection of St. Paul Street and 7 Avenue. Police...

‘Sheer brutality’ earns killer who stabbed friend 12 years

RECEIVES SAME SENTENCE AS LAST TRIAL KAMLOOPS - A convicted killer could be back out in the community in roughly five years’ time after he was handed his sentence today, June 30, for his 'sheer brutality' in the 2008 murder of a Lytton man. Kamloops Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley handed Cory Bird, 27, the...

UPDATE: Two men stabbed in West Kelowna

WEST KELOWNA – Two men were taken to hospital and a suspect is still at large after a stabbing in West Kelowna Sunday morning. RCMP say two men with stab wounds were taken to a walk-in clinic at around 10:50 a.m., June 7. Both men went from the clinic to Kelowna General Hospital with serious...

Blood found outside Vernon school connected to stabbing incident

SUSPECT ARRESTED VERNON - Police have determined the blood found outside Ellison Elementary School in Vernon is connected to a stabbing incident. Officers had a portion of Fulton Road and Okanagan Landing Road outside the school cordoned off on Wednesday, May 28 while they investigated the scene and collected evidence. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk said a man...

Solar Road stabbing victim identified, murder charges laid

WEST KELOWNA – The man who died after being stabbed in the chest during a fight in West Kelowna April 29 has been identified and charges against the suspect upgraded to second-degree murder. Jose Amestica, 50, will appear in court June 2. He was originally charged with aggravated assault until the victim, Kevin McNally, 44,...

UPDATE: Man arrested after stabbing in West Kelowna

WEST KELOWNA – A 45-year-old man remains in hospital with life threatening injuries after he was stabbed early Wednesday afternoon. RCMP were called about a stabbing near the intersection of Solar Road and Elliot Road in West Kelowna just before 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29. “When police attended they located a 45-year-old man suffering...

Stabbing incident over bicycle

KAMLOOPS - A man has a knife wound after an altercation over a bicycle this morning. RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Cheryl Bush says they were called to Wilson Street shortly after 11 a.m. today, April 16. A 48-year-old man was found with a knife wound to his arm. The man suffered the injury during an altercation...

Attempted theft ends in stabbing on North Shore

KAMLOOPS - A male walking in the North Shore was stabbed during an altercation with another male this afternoon. Kamloops RCMP say a male was walking along Fort Street just before 1 p.m. Thursday, March 26, when another male tried to steal his backpack. The duo got into an altercation and the first one was...

An Armstrong resident invited a homeless man back home for a shower, meal, and shelter

HERE'S WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY  VERNON - A stabbing incident in Armstrong could have been prevented if the assailant had been connected with appropriate support services, according to Vernon’s homeless shelter. Police say the assault happened when a Spallumcheen resident invited a homeless man to his house for a hot shower, a meal,...

Local bus drivers plan moment of silence for murdered passenger

KELOWNA – The moment the funeral for the man stabbed to death on a Kelowna bus last week begins in Vancouver, close to 30 local transit buses will pull to the side of the road for a minute of silence honouring the man who so faithfully used their service over the past two years. Caesar...

UPDATE: Man charged with Kelowna bus killing appears in court

KELOWNA – The Kelowna man charged with second degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a passenger on a B.C. Transit bus appeared in Kelowna provincial court and has been remanded in custody. Tyler Jack Newton, 23, went before a judge Monday morning. Newton spent the weekend in jail following his arrest Friday...

UPDATE: More than a dozen people witnessed murder on Kelowna city bus

BUS PASSANGERS WARY AFTER MURDER KELOWNA – Passengers on the number eight bus in Kelowna are eyeing each other with more suspicion Friday, after a man was murdered in an apparently random knife attack at a stop on Baron Road Thursday night. Taran Mundie, 23, is a UBCO student who takes the bus almost every...

Riverside stabbing has police looking for suspect

KAMLOOPS – RCMP are investigating a riverside stabbing which took place on the 100 block of Tranquille Road around 5 p.m. on May 21. According to Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a man went to a tented area to speak with a woman when he was approached and stabbed by another man unknown to him. The victim’s...