EDMONTON – People who know the young man accused of killing three people in a rural area west of Edmonton say they can’t believe he would be capable of committing such crimes.
RCMP shot Mickell Bailey Tuesday and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder.
Investigators say a Mountie hit the 19-year-old with a single shot as he walked out of his grandfather’s house carrying a firearm.
Officials say Bailey remains in an Edmonton hospital in very serious condition following surgery.
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Linda Osipow says she has known Bailey since he was a baby. She says he helped her with her fruit business last summer, hauling produce and setting up tables at her roadside stand.
Osipow says he was never aggressive and is just a big, goofy kid.
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Mounties found the bodies of Roxanne Berube, another female and Daniel Miller on Sunday in the home they shared outside of Edson.
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Bailey’s Facebook page shows pictures of seven handguns and an image of a sports car. There is no mention of the shootings.
John Myslicki, a former school teacher who has lived in the area for 39 years, says the killings have frightened the community.
Despite the arrest, people are locking their doors when they didn’t before.
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