The RCMP has charged a 54-year-old Red Deer man, Deng Mabiour, with the first-degree murder of Dr. Walter Reynolds, assaulting another doctor with a machete and assaulting a police officer
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Former clinic employees Theresa Baldwin, left, and Kristen York, lay flowers at an impromptu memorial, for Dr. Walter Reynolds, who died after he was attacked in an examination room, outside the Village Mall walk-in clinic in Red Deer, Alta., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020.The day that he was slain in his clinic in Red Deer, Alta.
One patient, Anina Mullin, told the Red Deer Advocate that she was in the waiting room when she heard banging noises and screams from the examination room. She said two men in the waiting room held the door shut to keep the suspect inside until police arrived in response to a 911 call.The RCMP has charged a 54-year-old Red Deer man, Deng Mabiour, with the first-degree murder of Dr. Reynolds, assaulting another doctor with a machete and assaulting a police officer.
“This was not a random attack; it was targeted,” he said at a news conference on Tuesday. “The suspect and Dr. Reynolds knew each other through the clinic.” He declined to discuss a potential motive.Dr. Walter Reynolds, the 45-year-old physician killed walk-in medical clinic in Red Deer, Alta. on Aug. 10, 2020.The officer who was attacked was struck with a blunt object, he said.
Dr. Reynolds moved to Canada from South Africa shortly after he graduated from the University of Pretoria, Ms. Booysen said.Story continues below advertisement “This is extreme shock. We are actually used to violence. To hear that something like that happened there [in Canada] is something of a shock.”
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