EDMONTON – Homicide investigators have charged three Edmonton Remand Centre inmates with the Christmas Eve murder of Curtis Dale Hill.
Edmonton Police Service (EPS) homicide detectives were called out to the Remand Centre at around 8:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. Witnesses told police a fight took place between inmates in a cell.
Paramedics were called out and treated the male victim, but he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Autopsy results concluded that 34-year-old Curtis Dale Hill died from injuries related to blunt force trauma and the manner in which he died was by homicide.
“It was a beating type incident and we do have several suspects that we’ll be eventually looking at, subsequently interviewing in the coming days and weeks,” said Staff Sgt. Bill Clark, EPS Homicide Section.
Police have also been looking at security footage of the incident.
On Wednesday, police charged 31-year-old Grant Lewis and 30-year-old Ryan Prystay with first degree murder.
Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Anderson has been charged with accessory after the fact to murder.
In December, investigators said there were about 60 inmates in the area at the time of the death.
“Some were in their cells, some were in the common area, just depended on the routine and procedures of the Remand Centre at the time,” explained Staff Sgt. Clark.
Hill was convicted of aggravated assault in connection with a 2011 attack in Calgary on a limousine driver who stopped because he thought someone outside had damaged his vehicle.
The driver said he was stabbed by Hill after he got out of the limousine.
The conviction was part of a lengthy criminal past for Hill.
In October 2013, a judge ruled Hill would undergo a psychiatric assessment to determine if he fit the criteria for a dangerous offender.