WESTLOCK – The fourth youth charged in the brutal attack against an 18-year-old woman near Long Island Lake last year has been arrested.
On Jan. 16, 2025, the fourth suspect, a 17-year-old male resident of Edmonton, turned himself in to the Edmonton Police Service, where he was arrested and charged with attempted murder, robbery, uttering threats against a person, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and failing to comply with release conditions.
The youth was taken before a Justice of the Peace and was remanded into custody. They are scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 22, 2025, at the Alberta Court of Justice in Westlock.
According to Westlock RCMP, the youth allegedly took the woman to a remote wooded area in Westlock County where they tried to kill her and left her for dead in September 2024.
Three eyewitnesses who rescued the woman in what they described as a “horror movie,” told Town and Country Today that she appeared on the side of the road after coming out of the ditch covered in blood. She told them that she had been stabbed and left in the ditch.
In September three youth were arrested and in November Westlock RCMP issued a Canada-wide warrant for the arrest of a fourth youth.
The Crown is seeking to have the youth sentenced as adults if convicted.
None of the youth can be identified due to the Youth Criminal Justice Act. They are all charged with attempted murder, robbery, and aggravated assault.
