'Whereabouts unknown': murder-suicide suspect wanted on warrants but police couldn't find him
CBC
Charges have been formally withdrawn against a Calgary man who murdered his estranged wife outside of an elementary school during morning drop-off last week before taking his own life shortly after.
The development means previously protected court documents are now public.
Those documents show that police planned to lay new charges and arrest the man on the day he killed the mother of his children, but they did not know where to find him.
CBC News is not identifying the family in order to protect the three newly orphaned children.
The man, who CBC News will call KG, and the woman, who will be identified as MN, were in the process of divorcing and did not live together, court records show.
MN was fatally stabbed outside John Costello Catholic School in the city's southwest on Jan. 16. KG's body was found nearby within a few hours. He had taken his own life.
At the time, he was before the courts on three sets of charges for alleged criminal behaviour that began last summer.
Last July, after KG was charged with an offence involving domestic violence, he was released on bail, on conditions he not contact MN or their children unless permitted through a court order.
But KG was charged with breaching that no contact order in September and again in November.
On the same day of the murder, warrants for KG's arrest were issued on new charges of harassment and breaching the no-contact order.
Court records show the warrants were signed that morning at 9 a.m., nearly 90 minutes after KG killed MN, which means police likely started the paperwork at least the day before.
The documents list KG's address as "whereabouts unknown."
This, despite court records from 2023 listing a northwest address for KG.
That means police likely tried to arrest him at least the day before but were unable to find him, says criminal defence lawyer and former RCMP officer Chad Haggerty.
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