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Killings shock Consort When one person brought terror, others near Consort were forced to become heroes in the fight of their lives on Friday. And in the terrible end, three people lost their lives, and a community was in shock. While RCMP have not identified the three people or released many MARY-ANN details, family BARR has. Christine Clifford, 44, Shawn Lindsay, 43, and Joseph Sylvester, 39, all died in
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From left to right: Christine Clifford, Joseph Sylvester and Shawn Lindsay. shootings near Consort, 220 km east of Red Deer. Police were called to Shawn Lindsay’s rural home at about 3:30 a.m. There they found two men shot — one was already dead and the other fatally wounded — and a woman, injured as
well during an ensuing battle and gunfight. Multiple media reports indicate that Sylvester, after killing his partner Clifford at their rural residence, drove to the Shawn Lindsay home where a confrontation took place.
Here’s what Stacey Lindsay, married to Shawn’s older brother Rod, told me on Monday. She and Rod were in bed sleeping when the phone rang. “As the crow flies,” they live about three km north of Shawn. Sylvester also lived several kilometres north of Shawn Lindsay. It was Billie-Jo Wadden calling, in a complete panic. She is Shawn’s fiance and the mother of the couple’s 17-month-old son TJ. Shawn also has custody of his other son, five-year-old Everett. All four were home in bed that night. Stacey said she wasn’t clear on what was going on, but Billie-Jo was begging them to come and get the children, and that there had been a shooting.
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Rebels learn fate of bid Wednesday BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Red Deer Rebels boss Brent Sutter is carefully optimistic regarding his club’s chances of hosting the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament. Sutter, the Rebels owner/general manager/head coach, will learn Wednesday at the Delta Bow Valley Hotel in Calgary whether his club or the Vancouver Giants will earn the right to stage major junior hockey’s grandest event a year and a half down the road. The announcement is expected to be made between 3 and 3:30 p.m. “You break down all the elements and you certainly like to think that we have a legitimate shot (of being named tournament hosts), but at the end of the day it still comes down to what the (Western Hockey League) governors think and what they want to do,” said Sutter. “There’s no way of knowing that ahead of time, but you’d like to think you have a reasonable chance. But again, it will come down to what 20 other governors think.” The Rebels have history on their side, or rather a lack of Memorial Cup history being that Alberta lasted hosted the Memorial Cup in 1974. The Giants, on the other hand, hosted in 2007, and even though it was the best-attended nine-game tournament ever — with an average paid attendance of 13,496 — the argument could still be made that it’s way past time to place the event in the Wild Rose province. “You have a team that has never hosted and a province that hasn’t hosted for 40 years now,” said Sutter. “Then you have a team (Giants) that hosted seven years ago, and did a great job of it. “And yet, that’s why you’re a part of a league — to be given the same opportunities as other franchises.” It’s no secret that the Saskatoon Blades were awarded the 2013 Memorial Cup — beating out bids from Red Deer and Kelowna — due to the fact the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon has a seating capacity of 15,195, more than twice that of each of the other two finalists.
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Luke Weddell prepares to use an automated external defribulator, AED, as his Grade 5 classmates, Tate Howell, Carsen Robertson, Reese Hanusich, Aidan Bain and Janaye Twogood look on at Holy Family School on Monday afternoon. 120 Grade 4 and 5 students learned how to use the AEDs and had a lesson in CPR in preparation for having an AED installed in the school. Roselien Christensen of Safety For You first aid training lead the instruction Monday and also instructed the staff in the use of the machines, which are used to reset the rhythm of the heart or restart the heart during cardiac arrest. All schools in the Red Deer Catholic School Division are installing the units and training staff and Grade 4 and up students in the use of the devices.
Man who shot Fas Gas clerk in the face sentenced to nine years in jail BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF With a sawed-off shotgun two feet from his face, West Park Fas Gas clerk Jaysen Arancon Reyes raised his hands to shield his head from a blast. Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 31, pulled the trigger. The impact knocked Reyes over as the pellets from the shotgun shell tore through his hands, face and his right eye. Staggering back to his feet, Reyes opened the till, took out all the cash and laid it on the counter. But Geary didn’t take it. Geary walked over to the ATM, put his shotgun on it for a short time, then picked it up and left. All he took was a slush he had
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poured earlier when he walked in to the Fas Gas on Sept. 11, 2013. Geary was sentenced to nine years in custody on Monday in Red Deer provincial court by Judge Darrel Riemer. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 11 to four charges, including attempted robbery with a prohibited weapon, possessing a loaded prohibited weapon, manufacturing the prohibited weapon and aggravated assault. According to the agreed statement of facts, in the days leading up to the offence Geary had obtained the firearm and gone about modifying it illegally by turning it into a sawed-off shotgun. On Sept. 11, he went into the store twice, once earlier in the day and then again at 11:22 p.m. At first, Geary conversed with Reyes, while concealing the sawed-off
shotgun. Geary then walked over to the slush machine to make one for himself. He walked around the store for a bit and when another customer entered the store, Geary ducked into the bathroom. The customer left and Geary approached Reyes. With a slush in one hand and a shotgun in the other, Geary raised the firearm and aimed it squarely at Reyes. He shot it at close range, severely wounding Reyes. And then Geary left, disposing of the weapon. Two days later, Geary turned himself in and he has been in custody since Sept. 13, 2013. Reyes managed to give a brief statement to Red Deer RCMP the night of the shooting.
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