The Regina Police Service (RPS) has announced the arrests of four people in connection with the death of a Bienfait woman in the Queen City on the weekend.
The victim, 38-year-old Amber Dawn Wood, was inside a residence in the 700-block of Athol Street on Saturday morning. Regina Police say it was the first homicide of the year in the city.
When police and EMS were dispatched at 8:10 a.m., they responded to that location for a report of a person injured in a shooting. Wood was taken to hospital by EMS but was pronounced dead a short time later.
“Investigation into this case by police and the Saskatchewan Coroners Service deemed the event to be a homicide,” the Regina Police Service said in a news release.
A male and female were arrested on Sunday and Monday, and two males were arrested Monday.
Twenty-nine year-old Justin Julien Englot and 25 year-old Jayden Marie Sanford, both of Regina, were the first to be charged. They are charged with accessory after the fact to murder and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, both under the Criminal Code.
Sanford and Englot made their first court appearance on these charges in Regina Provincial Court on Tuesday.
In the case of the other two males, they were arrested after police surrounded a residence in the 1200-block of Wascana Street late on Monday, as it was believed to be the location of two suspects. Eventually, two males emerged from the house. One was arrested without incident; the second attempted to flee on foot and was apprehended by a canine team.
This male suffered relatively minor injuries from the dog bite; he was taken to hospital for treatment and then brought to RPS. Continued investigation led to charges against both males.
Twenty-year-old Bobby Edward Dawson Gray and 22-year-old Peyton Anthony Stevenson, both of Regina, are charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder, possession of a firearm contrary to a probation order and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.
Both Gray and Stevenson appeared in Regina Provincial Court on Wednesday.
