HAGERSVILLE, Ont. — The mayor of a southern Ontario county is calling the killing of a provincial officer heartbreaking and disturbing as details emerge a
Court documents show both Randall McKenzie, 25, and Brandi Crystal Lyn Stewart-Sperry, 30, are facing a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala, 28.
“These things just don’t happen in Haldimand County,” said the county’s mayor Shelley Ann Bentley on Wednesday afternoon as she and other community members visited the site of shooting near the Niagara Peninsula. A 2021 document from the Parole Board of Canada says McKenzie is from the Onondaga First Nations of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. He was serving an almost three-year sentence for robbery, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon and other charges when his release was revoked that year because he was not complying with his terms.
“A lot of these families know each other, so I am kind of surprised something would escalate this far out here.”
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