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The Winnipeg Sun n Wednesday, november 16, 2011 NEWS 3
too much death
Go online to see a map andtimeline of the slayings andphotos of the victims.
worst year for winnipeg
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JamES TurNErWinnipeg Sun
From mere kids to the eld-erly, those suspected in this
year’s homicides hail romall backgrounds and walks o lie.
W hat ol low s are brie sketches o a ew who policearrested. hey are presumedi n n o c e n t u n t i l p r o v e nguilty.n Lulonda Lynn Flett, 40,
aces ive counts o second-degree murder and attemptedm u r d e r c h a r g e s i n c o n -nection to a July 16 room-ing house ire in North PointDouglas. hree days beorethe blaze, Flett pleaded guilty to assaulting her sister-in-law and was set ree on probation
with a condition to avoid her.Court documents, however,allege the relative is one o the attempted murder victims
who escaped the atal blaze.
Flett, who hails rom Norway House, has no other criminalconvictions. Her next courtdate is Nov. 25.n homas Brine, 26, is
accused o killing ElizabethLaantaisie, a 73-year-oldgreat-grandmother oundstued in the trunk o herown car ater being reportedmissing. Court records show Brine has prior convictionsstretching back over the lastsix years and was wanted on
warrants at the time he wasarrested or rst-degree mur-der in March. His next courtdate is Dec. 15.nA male youth, 14, remains
in custody charged with rst-degree murder related to thedeath o David Michael Vin-cett in September — an inci-dent police have linked to adispute between the MOBand Indian Posse street gangs.he teen was out on proba-tion at the time o the shoot-
ing ater being convicted o iring a sawed-o shotgun inthe direction o a Canada Postcarrier last November. Despitehis young age, the boy hadseveral other prior convic-tions as well. His next courtdate is Nov. 23.nMax Maurice Richard, 36,
is suspected o killing AprilHelen Hornbrook, a 24-year-old mom whose body wasound on a dirt path next tothe Yellow Warehouse build-
ing on Aug. 26. Richard waspicked up on robbery andassault charges Sept. 7, but notarrested as a suspect in Horn-brook’s murder until Sept. 30.Richard, who has twice servedstints in ederal prison, camerom a “chaotic” backgroundand struggled with substance-abuse issues, the Parole Boardo Canada says. He’ll next bein court Nov. 21.
Murder suspects have their own gritty tales to tell
Tamara KINGWinnipeg Sun
What is sometimes over-looked in Winnipeg’s record
year in homicides is that thenumber — now at 35 andcounting — represents a tragictoll, a lie that’s been lost, leav-ing heartbroken loved onesbehind with only memories.
Few know this better thanHolly Kolevris, a court sup-port worker with the Mani-toba Organization or Vic-tim Assistance, or MOVA. Notonly does she work with theamilies o homicide victims,Kolevris’ nephew, .J. Wiebe,
was killed in 2003. He wasonly 20.
‘Now I can relate’“I used to have the same
opinion when I read the peo-ple involved were drug deal-
ers and say, ‘oh good, anotherone is o the street,’ ” saidKolevris.
“Now I can relate. Every one o these murder statisticshas a amily. You have to seebehind the headline.”
David Vincett made mis-takes and may not have been
an angel, but he didn’t deserveto die, suggests the mother o the 20-year-old man atally shot earlier this all.
Vincett, 20, may have beenkilled because he claimed tobe in a street gang —
a claim that appearsto be alse. His am-ily said he was neverin a gang and policehave no record o such afliations.
Around 4:20 a.m.on S ep t. 25, V in-cett crossed pathso n B o y d A v e n u e w i t h a14-year-old boy and the pairexchanged words over allegedgang ties. Vincett was shot inthe ace and let to die.
Vincett was a young man
who was oten misunderstood,his mother, Linda Kozlowski,said in a recent interview.
“Big imagination. Helpedeverybody that asked or help.Picked the wrong riends.Made his mistakes and paidor them,” she said, her acegrim, adding: “He wasn’t an
angel, but he wasn’t a devileither. He was a good kid.”
A 14-year-old with ties tothe Indian Posse is charged
with rst-degree murder.Mohamed Ali Omar was a
beloved ather o
our young childrenand a hard-workinghusband, caughtby mistake whena gunman struck outside a McPhil-lips Street hotel, hisamily says.
Omar, 28, cameto Canada in 1993 rom war-torn Somalia. He grew up inthe West End, graduated romDaniel McIntyre Collegiate, and
worked in housekeeping at St.Boniace General Hospital.
On Oct. 30 around 4:30a.m., Omar and a group werein a vehicle just about to headhome rom the Lincoln MotorHotel when someone pulledup in an SUV and started ir-ing. Omar and a second vic-tim, a 17-year-old boy, wereshot. Te teen survived. Omar
did not.“Tis is devastating and all
o us are suering. He was abeloved ather,” says Ahmed
Omar.
‘Has no enemies’His amily suspects someone
else — not Mohamed — may have been the intended target.
“Tis man was in the wrongplace at the wrong time,” says
Ahmed. “He has no enemies.
Why somebody (would) shoothim, I don’t know.”
No arrests have been made.Police suggested the shoot-
ing could be gang-related,although declined to givedetails other than saying boththe 17-year-old and Omar had“associations to a local streetgang” — something Omar’samily vehemently disputes.
Gieving kin fogottenLooking beyond homicide statistics
winnipeg sun files
Murder victim David Michael Vincett is seen here withJennifer Kraynyk and their daughter Heather Kraynyk.
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Omar was killed outside theLincoln Motor Hotel.
“This isdevastatingand all o us
are sufering.”— ahmed omr
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