Edmonton man will be charged with murder in warehouse stabbing
Posted March 1, 2014 10:44 am.
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EDMONTON (NEWS1130) – A man arrested after a bloody stabbing rampage at an Edmonton grocery warehouse will be charged later today with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
Police say 29-year-old Jayme Pasieka is also facing two charges of possessing an offensive weapon.
Pasieka was arrested after a man with a knife in each hand, and wearing a protective vest, burst into the Loblaws warehouse and started stabbing people through the complex.
Two people were killed in the attack and four others were hurt, two seriously.
Police say 50-year-old Fitzroy Harris and 41-year-old Thierno Bah were both killed in the attack.
A Facebook page set up by friends says Bah was a member of the Edmonton’s Guinean community and had a wife and four young children.
The attacker fled the scene and was arrested without incident three hours later when his vehicle was spotted by an alert citizen.
Police say Pasieka worked at the warehouse, but they have not said what the motive was for the attack.
