The mother of a murdered Calgary man is struggling to make sense of the motive that prompted three men to end her son’s life.
“I just want to know why they killed him. If he’s a good kid and he trusts them, I don’t know the motive. It’s a big puzzle for us,” said Juan Carlos DeQuina’s mother Adela.
“He was a really good kid. I sometimes think if I didn’t bring my family here, what would have happened?”
Calgary police have named three men charged with first-degree murder in connection with the 2008 homicide of Dequina.
Kenneth Jacob Tingle, 30, of Edmonton, Neil Lee Yakimchuk, 30, of Calgary and Fredy Alex Beltran, 31, of Calgary, were charged with first-degree murder early Thursday morning.
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Police say DeQuina had no ties to criminal activity and was not known to them.
The 21-year-old was found shot inside his still-running 1997 Chevrolet Blazer near 53rd Street and 146th Avenue S.W. on Dec. 14, 2008.
The victim, who was driving home from his girlfriend’s house, made monthly cash donations to an orphanage in the Philippines.
DeQuina’s parents, who moved to Canada from the Philipines in 2000 with their two sons for a better life, are left grappling with questions.
DeQuina attended St. Mary’s high school and Mount Royal University before being waitlisted for SAIT’s architectural technologies program.
He was working in a warehouse full time, Adela said.
The men were arrested Wednesday.
Two were taken into custody from two locations in Calgary, while the third was arrested in B.C. by members of the Osoyoos RCMP and the Penticton Regional General Investigation Section.
He has been returned to Calgary, police said in a news release late Wednesday.
Police are expected to release further details today.
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