Police have charged a 42-year-old man with first-degree murder in the death of a woman who was found shot to death in downtown Edmonton over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Priscilla McGreer, 39, was found inside a vehicle Saturday morning, suffering from fatal gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
Police said officers had been called to reports of gunshots in the 119th Street and Jasper Avenue area just before 4:30 a.m. and found McGreer’s body inside an SUV.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Streets along Jasper Avenue were shut down to traffic for several hours Saturday morning as part of the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An autopsy was completed Monday and determined McGreer died of gunshot wounds and that the manner of her death was homicide, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives arrested and charged Kyle Laumen, of Edmonton, with first-degree murder in McGreer’s death. He was also charged with aggravated assault and breach of probation.<\/p>\n
Police said McGreer and Laumen were known to one another.<\/p>\n
String of suspicious deaths\u00a0<\/p>\n
McGreer’s death is among a string of suspicious deaths in the city over the long weekend that are now under investigation by the city’s homicide detectives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, officers were called to the\u00a0area of 104th Street and 85th Avenue, responding to reports of a man\u00a0in medical distress.<\/p>\n
An 82-year-old man, found in the backyard of a nearby home,\u00a0was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries.\u00a0An autopsy has been scheduled for Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday, around 7:30 a.m., a man’s body was found in Edmonton’s river valley. Police said his death is considered suspicious and an autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Later Sunday afternoon, police responded to another fatal scene. Firefighters responding to a house fire in the Montrose neighbourhood, in the area of\u00a0in the area of 59th Street and 119th Avenue, found a body inside the burning home.<\/p>\n
Police said no arrests have been made but detectives want to speak with a resident who captured a video of the fire that has been circulating on social media. An image of the video, shared by police, shows a house engulfed in flames overlaid with text that indicates that the fire\u00a0was ignited after a verbal argument.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators have not released any details on the identity of the deceased.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the crimes is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged a 42-year-old man with first-degree murder in the death of a woman who was found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-114572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}