{"id":499664,"date":"2026-02-26T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499664\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:40:19","slug":"judge-dismisses-familys-request-for-review-in-stabbing-death-of-edmonton-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499664\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge dismisses family&#8217;s request for review in stabbing death of Edmonton teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A judge dismissed a request for a judicial review of an Edmonton police decision not to charge a man with killing a 13-year-old boy at a transit station.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Omeasoo died last year after he was stabbed at MacEwan LRT station<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771973412_664_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"author-image-img\"\/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/author\/daniela-germano-1.5243928\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniela Germano<\/a>  \u00b7 The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Feb 25, 2026 5:36 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A smiling boy in a grey hoodie.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772066419_423_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>13-year-old Eric Omeasoo died in February 2025 after he was stabbed on the MacEwan light rail transit platform in Edmonton. (Submitted by Rhonda Spence)<\/p>\n<p>A judge dismissed a request for a judicial review of an Edmonton police decision not to charge a man with killing a 13-year-old boy at a transit station.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Omeasoo died in February 2025 after he was stabbed on the MacEwan LRT platform.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Wayne Renke on Thursday also rejected a review of Crown prosecutors in the case.<\/p>\n<p>While Omeasoo&#8217;s death was ruled a homicide, police have said charges wouldn&#8217;t be laid as there was evidence he was killed in self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>Omeasoo&#8217;s family disputed what happened and demanded police share evidence with them.<\/p>\n<p>The family was in court late last year to provide evidence they collected to support their allegation of abuse of process in the case. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton A judge dismissed a request for a judicial review of an Edmonton police decision not to charge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-499664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499664","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=499664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}