Warmington: Police refuse to identify victim in mysterious murder in Durham

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Call this another of Pickering’s mysterious murder victims!

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“At the family’s request, the victim’s name will not be released,” the sergeant explained. Joan Bortras of the Durham County Police Department Media Division.

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Now this is not her calling and it is not her fault.

However, as a member of the media reporting on crime in Durham, I felt it was important for the public to know that I was being asked to anonymously name myself as an 11-year-old in 2022.th Murder of the year in Durham.

Requests for comment were addressed to the local police chief, the Secretary General and Mayor Pickering. I will report back if they comment.

At this time, it is unknown who was murdered in this house. What we do know is that a 56-year-old man was stabbed multiple times at his home near Rosebank Road at 7pm on Friday. I also know that the Durham Police have been charged. Seedjan Sulaiman Khail, 23, was arrested on second-degree murder charges after being arrested in Toronto.

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It is unclear what the motive for the crime was or whether there was any connection between the defendant and the victim.

do you want it like this? Does this family’s privacy outweigh the public interest?

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Will this tend to reduce the public’s chances of learning about the horrors of GTA, as the media can’t verify the identities of the victims?

Considering it’s the second time this year that Durham Police have refused to identify a murder victim, it’s a natural question.

Back in February, Toronto Suns Jack Borland covered the discovery of a woman’s body in Claremont. A 72-year-old Newcastle woman has been charged with second-degree murder. She didn’t even report her name.

Therefore, in Durham, the identities of certain murder victims are kept on a need-to-know basis and not made known to the public. That’s how they do it in a communist country where freedom is not a right.

It’s happening here too.

My job is to report what happened, and I am forced to write about efforts to publicly hide the identity of a victim when I cannot reveal the victim’s name.

At this time, we can report that there was a man murdered in Pickering on Friday, but his identity is a secret.