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Writer Mourned Bob Scammell remembered for his love of the outdoors.
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Group of Seven Exhibit offers rare opportunity to see paintings by the Group of Seven.
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Whale Deaths
BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
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here was no warning before a teen allegedly fired a fusillade of shots at the driver in a Red Deer back alley on New Year’s Day 2013. Chato Tootoosis, 27, testified on Monday that he was sitting in the back seat when the 17-year-old in the front stepped out of the car, pulled out a gun and shot Lloyd Rob-
ert Sarson numerous times in rapid fashion. There had been no angry words nor confrontation before the shocking moment of violence that ended with the gunman fleeing into the dark. Crown prosecutor Rajbir Dhillon asked what Tootoosis was doing as the shots rang out around 5 a.m. “Watching. Hoping I wasn’t going to be the next one to get shot,” Tootoosis testified in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench before an eight-man
and four-woman jury. A 21-year-old man is on trial for first-degree murder in Sarson’s death. He can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was 17 at the time of the shooting. As soon as the shooter was gone, Tootoosis went to help Sarson, 25, who was coughing and making gurgling noises. “That’s it. He didn’t say anything. He just started dying.” An autopsy would later
determine that Sarson was shot eight times, seven of the .22-calibre bullets lodging in his body. He died quickly of blood loss. Tootoosis said he stole a car in Calgary about a day earlier and picked up a friend to make the trip to Red Deer to see friends. He and a group of others, including Sarson, spent most of New Year’s Eve and into New Year’s Day drinking, socializing, and making drug deals. See MURDER on page 4
The deaths of two beluga whales at the Vancouver Aquarium are still under investigation.
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Jenny Zollerano poses for a photo with her younger brother, Lloyd Sarson, in Red Deer in September 2010. Sarson was gunned down in a Red Deer back alley on New Year’s Day 2013.
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