A Montreal man charged with first-degree homicide within the demise of a comfort retailer proprietor appeared in court docket Friday, a day after police launched a manhunt that ended together with his arrest.
Xavier Gellatly, 35, is accused of killing 55-year-old Chong Woo Kim. Police discovered Kim unresponsive inside his comfort retailer round 7:30 a.m. Thursday. Paramedics confirmed his demise on the scene.
Authorities looked for the suspect by town’s metro system earlier than arresting him hours later inside Complexe Desjardins, a downtown workplace tower and mall.
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Provincial enterprise data point out Kim owned the Fleur Bleue comfort retailer on Berri Avenue, close to the Laurier metro station, the place the killing occurred. Court docket data present Gellatly lived in an condominium about one kilometre from the enterprise.
Court docket paperwork present Gellatly has a prolonged felony historical past that features a 2015 conviction in British Columbia for stabbing a lady to demise.
He was sentenced to seven years in jail in Vancouver in February 2015 after pleading responsible to manslaughter within the 2012 killing of Chelsea Holden and to aggravated assault for stabbing one other man seven instances, inflicting everlasting nerve harm.
In line with a B.C. Supreme Court docket sentencing ruling, the assaults occurred after he acquired right into a combat with the person at a lodge.
Holden, a mom of two, “was fully harmless and apparently little greater than a bystander,” the choose stated at sentencing.
Gellatly’s homicide case is scheduled to return to court docket on Could 4.
— with information from The Canadian Press
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