Nanaimo Homicide

• Nanaimo woman’s overdose death now considered a homicide: RCMP

  Wendy Head, 52, died of an overdose on March 7, 2023, in what police now believe was a homicide.

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  Oct 18, 2023
  
• Makayla Chang murder: Steven Bacon given life in prison with no parole for 20 years

  Bacon pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in August 2022, after the charge of first-degree homicide was downgraded.

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  Apr 14, 2023
  
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• Man charged with second-degree murder following Nanaimo, B.C. fatal stabbing

  On Jan. 22 around 7 p.m., police said a person walked into Port Place Mall in Nanaimo with an apparent stab wound after being attacked in the parking lot near London Drugs.

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  Feb 3, 2023
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• Nanaimo, B.C. man charged in connection with fatal park stabbing

  Mark Harrison is charged with second degree murder after police found a man with stab wounds and another who had been attacked with bear spray in Maffeo Sutton Park.

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  Sep 9, 2022
• Nanaimo man charged with 2nd-degree murder in death of Victoria woman

  Denise Allick, 40, was found dead inside a home near 8th Street in the southern part of the city around 10 p.m. Monday.

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  Jun 22, 2022
• Man arrested in connection with Nanaimo, B.C. homicide

  Nanaimo RCMP found a woman dead inside a home on 8th Street around 10 p.m. on Mon. June 20, 2022.

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  Jun 21, 2022
• Nanaimo Mounties say coffee shop homicide ‘a random incident with a tragic outcome’

  Police were called to the Buzz Coffee House at 4890 Rutherford Road around 9 a.m. Saturday on a welfare check. They found one man dead and arrested another.

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  Feb 13, 2022
• Man in custody as Nanaimo RCMP investigate homicide

  Police were called to a business at the corner of Highway 19A and Rutherford Road for a wellness check around 9 a.m., where they found one man dead and arrested the second man.

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  Feb 12, 2022
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• B.C. gang war spills out of Lower Mainland with slayings in Calgary, Nanaimo

  As B.C. RCMP were called to yet another deadly shooting Saturday, this time in Coquitlam, police in Calgary were also investigating a targeted fatal shooting of their own.

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  May 23, 2021
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• Nanaimo fatal shooting linked to regional gang conflict: police

  “We believe this event has a nexus to the ongoing gang-conflict and violence currently plaguing a number of Lower Mainland communities,” RCMP said in a media release.

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  May 22, 2021