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kermitology · 08-02-2007, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironhorse

If it is indeed a murder (the victim was purposefully pushed into the train), then I imagine all sorts of crimescene evidence needs to be collected and accounted for so that the person responsible can be prosecuted properly.

What I mean is to find out that someone even died. Not the details.

ken0042 · 08-02-2007, 12:41 PM

It happened at 4:45, and it was on the news when I got home at 6:00. How much quicker did you need the info?

I guess I'm also not understanding your issue.

Otto-matic · 08-02-2007, 01:37 PM

Cops have taken two women in for questioning, but have not laid charges.
It's believed the push was intentional, Pollock said.
The train was approaching the platform at the time.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/...87195-sun.html

Could this have been a drug deal gone bad?

Ozy_Flame · 08-02-2007, 01:41 PM

I've seen numerous things on that corner with my own eyes. Stabbings, fights, a crazy man swinging a piece of lumber half naked at pedestrians, gang showdowns, drug busts, and even someone play chicken with the c-train and lose. So this is not an odd occurence in this part of the city; rather, it was just a matter of time before someone died here AGAIN.

J pold · 08-02-2007, 01:49 PM

In the herald article it says the incident was out of line of site so the train had already approach the platform…if that is the case than I would suspect that it was intentional because you don’t just fool around with a moving train 2 feet away from you

ken0042 · 08-02-2007, 01:53 PM

On Global last night they mentioned that the guy was pushed into the moving train, and kinda bounced against the sides of the car until there was a gap between the cars; when he fell in.

Which also means that he would have made a lot of noise against the side of the car- so everybody in the car would have turned to look and would have seen him die. Yikes.

tete · 08-02-2007, 02:11 PM

Ugh. That's my stop on the way home from work and had I not stopped to call my husband from the office, chance are I would have been on that train. Instead, I caught one about 6 minutes later, got on the train and heard about the accident from the driver, saying the trains were stopped. So I hoofed it home.

No use to go over the "what ifs" of life, but that one has made me think just a teensy bit.

Ozy_Flame · 08-02-2007, 02:20 PM

I was heading to a Flames game once when we were passing that same intersection...Some guy blindly bikes right into the side of the train and goes under, and we all heard the thud...The train stopped, and we didn't know what to do until some guy started banging on the windows saying "CALL 911! CALL 911!"......We were stuck on the train and late for the game, and had to pretty much hike it the rest of the way to the Stampede grounds in the freezing cold.

kermitology · 08-02-2007, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ken0042

It happened at 4:45, and it was on the news when I got home at 6:00. How much quicker did you need the info?

I guess I'm also not understanding your issue.

I didn't see mention of it on the 6 news.. My roomate and I were flipping stations and all I caught were the reports of the remains found by the river, the fight outside the drop in centre and the bridge collapse.. I must have missed it in the flipping I guess.

Ozy_Flame · 08-02-2007, 02:25 PM

Kermit, there was also two people who got shot in the head yesterday with a shotgun, don't forget that news bit too....All of them happened in the same general area...

ken0042 · 08-02-2007, 02:25 PM

Ah. Well it was on Global; complete with footage from the scene. I actually paid extra attention because a buddy called me at 5:00 looking for a ride as he was stranded with the trains not running. (Unfortunately I decided to take the bus yesterday instead of driving.)

kermitology · 08-02-2007, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Kermit, there was also two people who got shot in the head yesterday with a shotgun, don't forget that news bit too....All of them happened in the same general area...

Oh yeah! Thanks, I kinda got confused with everything that happened near the Bow

Flames_Gimp · 08-02-2007, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Biff

the pain and suffering was probably minimal and mercifully brief. Still.....so glad for health and family.

oh theres no way the pain and suffering was minimal, but it probably didnt last too long

Biff · 08-02-2007, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp

oh theres no way the pain and suffering was minimal, but it probably didnt last too long

Yeah....my bad. I assumed it was a head on collision thing and, consequently, mercifully short. Details make it seem much more prolonged and nasty. Not good.

Otto-matic · 08-02-2007, 09:57 PM

"He ended up here at the station and started arguing with a lady and she just went crazy,” said Prevost’s roommate, Scott Hunt. Prevost was pushed between two moving train cars and died instantly.
Police are now looking for the woman they believe the teen was arguing with moments before he died.
The woman is described as dark-skinned, possibly Aboriginal, and in her mid 20’s.
She has facial scarring, was wearing tight-fitting, Capri-style pants and a red, or pink, tank top.
On Thursday, there was a stronger police presence at the 8th Street S.W. station keeping an eye on things and reassuring passengers.

CTV

Reaper · 08-03-2007, 08:41 AM

So, the perpetrator could be any number of crackheads found milling about the station at any given time.

Byrns · 08-03-2007, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by fotze

Apparently the dead kid hucked the woman down onto the tracks prior to her getting back on the platform.

Well, I feel a little less sorry for this "great kid" who was also apparently a drug dealer.

Muta · 08-03-2007, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by fotze

It was bizarre when they were interviewing his friends an hour after it happened. One girl said "I miss his voice". She sure leaped a few stages in the official grief hierarchy.

I know it's not funny, but I lol'ed at that especially after the way fotze said it...

Bobblehead · 08-03-2007, 11:20 AM

Not to demean the deceased, but anything like this there are always people who portray them as a really good person, no matter what they were actually like.

In the linked article from yesterday:

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"It's odd -- I couldn't see him provoking anyone," said Matt, who didn't give his last name.

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"The guy could be happy anywhere in the world -- he was the humblest person, and he wouldn't care if he was living in a shack," Matt said.

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"He was always positive, even at the worst of times," he said. "Hopefully, he's in a better place."

And yet he had quit school, had no job, and:

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But he also said Prevost occasionally sold marijuana to make ends meet.
"He was caught in the drugs and alcohol like the rest of us are," Biswas said.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...4b56274486&p=2

It is sad when anyone young dies, but lets not portray him to be something that he wasn't - namely an innocent saint.

Burninator · 08-03-2007, 11:33 AM

It's to be expected that anyone who dies under the age of 18 is made out to be a saint. It doesn't really matter what kind of life the kid actually lead because nothing negative is typically said about them. Then if someone is a couple years older and dies in the same fashion they are fair game to have the truth told. Not really sure exactly why things are this way, but that's the way the news presents it to us.

I was talking about this last night and it's odd the things people are saying about him in comparison with the other details, like no job, school dropout and sold drugs. When the news showed a picture of him, he looked like a wanna be gangster with his straight brimmed hat, big chain and flashing gangs signals. Now I am going to make a blind judgement on this guy, but he doesn't seem like an upstanding member of society to me.