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Funeral for shooting victim Mitch MacLean to be held in Charlottetown today

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – Mourners in Charlottetown gather today for the funeral of one of the victims of last week’s roadside murder-suicide in southern Alberta.

Twenty-year-old Mitch MacLean was a promising baseball player who had moved to Lethbridge, Alberta, to hone his skills along with friend Tanner Craswell.

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Both young men were headed home for the holidays and driving to the Calgary airport with their friends Tabitha Stepple and Shayna Conway when Stepple’s ex-boyfriend ran them off the road.

He opened fire, killing all but Conway before turning the gun on himself.

Conway in recovering in hospital from three serious gunshot wounds.

Craswell’s funeral will be held tomorrow in Charlottetown.

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Twenty-one-year-old Stepple was laid to rest yesterday in Lethbridge at a funeral attended by more than 850 people.

Relatives remembered her as a strong girl who was full of life. 

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