Edmonton Police Department is urging the public to avoid identifying young people accused of fatally stabbing a 16-year-old McNally High School student.
Police say the public is also posting online the names of teenagers they believe were witnesses.
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“EPS understands that the murder of a 16-year-old man outside McNally High School continues to weigh heavily on many students, families and our community at large,” the police department said Thursday.
“While acknowledging that this remains a difficult time, EPS must point out that publishing the identities of each accused and witness on such matters is a crime under the Juvenile Criminal Justice Act,” acting supervisor of the media relations department, Cheryl Shepard, he explained.
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“We ask anyone who has published identifying material of this nature to delete / remove it immediately.”
EPS has said it will investigate allegations of “illegal publication”.
1:34 A family grieves for a teenager who died after an attack outside a high school in Edmonton A family mourns a teenager who died after an attack in front of a high school in Edmonton – April 18, 2022.
Police are also asking people to be aware that misinformation about the incident and those involved is circulating on the Internet. EPS says citizens should “take this into account” when reading information online from “unofficial sources”.
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“As a police force, our priority is to obey the law and ensure the safety and well-being of all Edmonton residents,” Shepard added.
Read more: 7 teenagers charged with second-degree murder after being stabbed at McNally High School in Edmonton
Seven young men – six boys and a girl between the ages of 14 and 17 – have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Karanvir Sahota.
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Young people cannot be named under the Juvenile Criminal Justice Act.
Read more: Hundreds attend the funeral of a teenager from Edmonton killed in a violent attack in front of his school
Sahota, 16, was attacked in front of McNally School on Friday, April 8. He died of his injuries a week later. An autopsy reveals that Sahota died of a stab wound to the chest.
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