{"id":494799,"date":"2026-02-23T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494799\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:36:09","slug":"former-girlfriend-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494799\/","title":{"rendered":"former girlfriend \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 A former girlfriend of a Winnipeg man accused of killing five people says he was prone to seizures that knocked him unconscious with prolonged convulsions.<\/p>\n

The jury trial for Jamie Felix began its second week with emotional testimony from the woman about their three-year relationship before his arrest.<\/p>\n

Felix has pleaded not guilty to five counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths at a rooming house in November 2023.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice vehicles are shown outside the scene of a shooting at a home in Winnipeg on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Officers were called shortly after 4 a.m. to a home where they found five people wounded. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Aaron Vincent Elkaim<\/p>\n

The woman, who can\u2019t be identified due to a publication ban, says Felix was a loving partner but struggled with periods of drug and alcohol addiction following the death of his twin brother.<\/p>\n

Court previously heard that Felix was on anti-seizure medication and was advised by doctors not to mix it with drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n

The woman says she witnessed Felix have multiple seizures and that he would collapse, sometimes turn blue, become disoriented.<\/p>\n

She said it would take him a while to become alert again.<\/p>\n

Crown prosecutors have argued that the accused was using crack and drinking alcohol in the days before the mass shooting.<\/p>\n

Police were called to a unit in the home after reports of a stabbing, but when they arrived found five people with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and two others died in hospital. The fifth, who had been in hospital since the shooting, died last year.<\/p>\n

The victims were identified as: Crystal Beardy, 34; her sister Stephanie Beardy, 33; Melelek Lesikel, 29; Dylan Lavallee, 41; and Shawn Marko, 56.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 A former girlfriend of a Winnipeg man accused of killing five people says he was prone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-494799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494799","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=494799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}