Kelsey Ouellette's late boyfriend's criminal activity led to her being gunned down while leaving her home on the west end of Jasper Avenue last November, Edmonton police said.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.One year after a young woman was shot and killed on a Saturday evening in a popular part of downtown Edmonton, police are releasing more information about her life and the circumstances leading up to the homicide.
“Kelsey was ambushed and shot repeatedly after leaving her residence,” said acting Staff Sgt. Jared Buhler with the EPS homicide section.Story continues below advertisement On, Monday, June 6, 2022, Chamberland was found dead at his house in the Carlton neighbourhood of northwest Edmonton. Nicolas was also known as “Maverick” or “Mav” in some circles, Buhler said.The couple had lived together at his home in the Carlton area but separated just before he died, Buhler said.
“At this time, we believe Kelsey’s murder relates to significant criminal events associated to Nicolas Chamberland and/or persons in his network, which occurred within a context of high-level organized crime.”Click to share quote on Twitter: "At this time, we believe Kelsey's murder relates to significant criminal events associated to Nicolas Chamberland and/or persons in his network, which occurred within a context of high-level organized crime.
Investigators want to talk to any of Ouellette or Chamberland’s friends or acquaintances who may have had contact with them between June and November of 2022 — even those who are actively involved in gang life.“Our only focus in this case is solving Kelsey’s murder. We get that it occurred in a much broader context of other criminal activity — and significant criminal activity that would be subject to high-level police investigations.
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