US EditionMan charged with first-degree murder after Montreal store owner killed
Xavier Gellatly, 35, charged with first-degree murder after fatally stabbing a convenience store owner; suspect has a violent criminal history including a prior killing in 2012.
- On Thursday, Xavier Gellatly was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Chong Woo Kim, owner of the Fleur Bleue convenience store in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood.
- Court records show Gellatly has a violent criminal history spanning Quebec and British Columbia, including a 2012 manslaughter conviction for killing Chelsea Holden, a 28-year-old mother of two, at a Vancouver hotel.
- Following an extensive search, police arrested Gellatly at the Desjardins Complex in downtown Montreal after deploying officers to Metro stations, believing he had fled via public transit.
- Gellatly appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Friday to face the first-degree murder charge after receiving hospital treatment for a deep hand injury sustained during the incident.
- The case is scheduled to return to court on May 4, as investigators continue processing evidence from the Berri Street scene where emergency responders pronounced Kim dead on Thursday.
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Chek newsMan charged in murder of Montreal store owner had stabbed to death B.C. woman in 2012
A man charged with first-degree murder in the death on Thursday of a Montreal convenience store owner has a lengthy criminal record, which includes a conviction in 2015 for stabbing to death a woman in British Columbia.
Montreal man charged with first-degree murder in fatal dépanneur stabbing
A 35-year-old Montreal man with a lengthy history of violent crime has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a fatal stabbing at a Plateau Mont-Royal dépanneur. Police say the victim, Chong Woo Kim, a man in his 50s who owned the corner store, was stabbed multiple times. According to the Montreal police service, […]
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Man charged with first-degree murder in killing of Montreal convenience store owner
MONTREAL - A 35-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing on Thursday of a Montreal convenience store owner.
The Montrealer accused of murdering a convenience clerk near the Laurier subway on Thursday has already committed many crimes of extreme violence. In 2012, Xavier Gellatly killed a young woman during a bloody knife-string in Vancouver. He also killed a rabbit in a marital context.
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