{"id":500620,"date":"2026-02-26T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500620\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:43:45","slug":"judge-denies-familys-request-for-review-in-stabbing-death-of-teen-on-edmonton-lrt-platform-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500620\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies family\u2019s request for review in stabbing death of teen on Edmonton LRT platform &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Daniela Germano<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted February 25, 2026 5:15 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A judge has 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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Justice Wayne Renke also rejected a review of Crown prosecutors in the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/eric-omeasoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Omeasoo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teenager died a year ago after he was stabbed on the platform of the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/macewan-lrt-station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacEwan LRT station<\/a> beside Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 5, 2025, just before midnight, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11007764\/edmonton-lrt-fight-assault-february-macewan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police responded to reports of an assault<\/a> involving several people fighting at the above-ground MacEwan LRT station platform near 105 Avenue and 104 Street.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old boy was found dead when emergency crews arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Boy, 13, fatally stabbed at Edmonton LRT station was in group of youth that attacked 2 adults: police'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6p-LRT-HOMICIDE_thumbnail_1280x720.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:43<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoy, 13, fatally stabbed at Edmonton LRT station was in group of youth that attacked 2 adults: police\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police have said that while his death was ruled a homicide, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11065384\/macewan-lrt-station-homicide-concluded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">charges wouldn\u2019t be laid<\/a> as there was evidence he was killed in self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>At the, investigators determined Omeasoo was part of a group of four youths and one 18-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a 34-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman. Omeasoo was stabbed during the ensuing brawl.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11705936\/jasper-bearcats-danica-hills-kayla-peacock\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772102624_198_HINTON-DEATHS-WEB.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBest friends who played on Jasper hockey team remembered as \u2018bright shining lights\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11706768\/indian-government-no-longer-targeting-canadians-senior-official\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772102624_239_CP173339221_a1a9cd.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tIndian government no longer targeting Canadians, senior official says on eve of PM\u2019s visit\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Police determined the two adults were homeless and sheltering from the cold at the LRT station.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe Edmonton Police Service investigating a death on the MacEwan LRT station platform beside Rogers Place on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Omeasoo\u2019s family disputed what happened and demanded police share evidence with them.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the family was in court to provide evidence they collected to support their allegation of abuse of process in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Karen Bartko, Global News<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniela Germano The Canadian Press Posted February 25, 2026 5:15 pm 1 min read Descrease article font&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,2169,23752,100309,199968,200146,200147],"class_list":["post-500620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-law-courts","tag-eric-omeasoo","tag-macewan-lrt-station","tag-macewan-lrt-station-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500620","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=500620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}