Selmawit Alem

• Calgary man sentenced to life in prison, no parole for 50 years for killing mother and woman she cared for

  Emanuel Kahsai was ordered to spend life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 50 years for the stabbing death of Selma Alem and Julie Tran.

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  Apr 5, 2018
  
• Jury finds Emanuel Kahsai guilty of first-degree murder in deaths of his mother and the woman she was a caregiver to

  A jury in Calgary has found Emanuel Kahsai guilty of first-degree murder in the 2015 stabbing deaths of his 54-year-old mother, Selmawit Alem, and Julie Tran, the 25-year-old woman Alem was a caregiver to.

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  Mar 28, 2018
  
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• Emanuel Kahsai placed in separate courtroom as 1st-degree murder trial begins

  Emanuel Kahsai is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his mother and a woman she cared for.

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  Mar 5, 2018
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• Loved ones want justice on 2nd anniversary of Calgary double homicide

  Two years after the deaths of Selmawit Alem and Julie Tran, loved ones of the victims are still waiting and hoping for justice in the case.

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  Oct 17, 2017
• Calgary man accused in double homicide fires lawyer, could go straight to trial

  Provincial Court Judge Peter Barley will announce Thursday if the case will proceed by direct indictment—which means the case would go directly to trial without a preliminary inquiry.

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  Nov 8, 2016
• Accused in double homicide in Calgary’s Coventry Hills found fit to stand trial

  Thirty-year-old Emanuel Kahsai has just completed a psychiatric assessment at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre.

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  Aug 8, 2016
• Psychiatric assessment must continue for man accused in mother’s death

  A man accused of killing his mother and another woman in Coventry Hills last fall has been ordered to continue undergoing a psychiatric assessment.

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  Jul 18, 2016
• Psych assessment for man accused in stabbing death of mother, 2nd woman

  A forensic psychiatrist who examined Emanuel Kahsai Monday testified the man might be psychotic and unfit to stand trial.

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  Jun 20, 2016