Tag: murder
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]
Man acquitted in 2014 cellphone slaying sought in downtown shooting
A London man acquitted nine years ago in the shooting death of a Fanshawe College student trying to retrieve his stolen cellphone is one of three suspects sought in a downtown shooting last week that injured a man. Police were alerted by hospital officials around 5 a.m. on July 21 that a man had showed […]
Man, 30, charged with murder, arson in St. Thomas homicide
Police charged one suspect in the death of 40-year-old Victoria Dill and are seeking another in the city’s first homicide in eight years.
Suspect charged again with accessory after fact in Meaford murder
Police have re-laid a charge of accessory after the fact to murder against a suspect in the death of Emerson Sprung four years ago. Grey Bruce OPP announced in a news release Friday that Laurel Campbell, 32, of Meaford is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder. She was held for bail […]
Homicide probe launched as London man injured in assault dies
London police have launched a homicide investigation after a man found critically injured outside an apartment building last week died.