{"id":654640,"date":"2026-05-07T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:23:38","slug":"16-year-old-girl-identified-as-victim-of-fatal-assault-in-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654640\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old girl identified as victim of fatal assault in Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police have identified 16-year-old Angeline Boucher as the victim of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11836962\/man-dead-assaulted-woodlands-southwest-calgary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a fatal stabbing in the southwest community of Woodlands early Wednesday morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police initially reported that officers were called to the scene of a \u201cserious assault\u201d in the 2100 block of Woodview Drive at around 5:40 a.m. When they arrived, they located a person who was deceased. A large area was blocked off as officers conducted a search for evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tInvestigators taped off a large area in the 2100 block of Woodview Drive SW for most of the day on Wednesday as they searched for evidence. Investigators have not yet located a weapon believed to be used in the stabbing.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy conducted on Thursday confirmed the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Police say they do not believe the attack was random, but nobody is in custody at this time.<\/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 daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, investigators issued a public plea for help recovering the weapon and are asking anyone who locates \u201can edged weapon\u201d in the garbage or a recycling bin in the area to contact police at 403-266-1234.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tPolice are asking area residents to review CCTV footage for possible evidence and check garbage cans and recycling bins for an \u2018edged weapon\u2019 that may have been used in the deadly attack.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>They are also asking area residents to check their CCTV footage and are requesting anyone with information that may be useful to investigators to call them.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), online at <a href=\"https:\/\/calgarycrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Calgary Crime Stoppers<\/a> or by downloading the Crime Stoppers app (P3 Tips) from the app store.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Homicide unit investigating assault-related death in SW Calgary'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MOMNEY.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:26<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\tHomicide unit investigating assault-related death in SW Calgary\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary police have identified 16-year-old Angeline Boucher as the victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,14843,241532,48,2169,44,242668],"class_list":["post-654640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-calgary-homicide","tag-calgary-stabbing","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-woodlands-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654640","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=654640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}