New details surface in Triple Murder-Suicide
Posted Dec 17, 2011 7:09 am.
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Two P.E.I. men in their 20’s are dead and a 21 year-old P.E.I. woman is in hospital, breathing through a tube, after she survived three bullets to her arm, leg, and stomach.
A third victim, Tabitha Stepple of Lethbridge was also killed in the early morning attack Thursday, which RCMP have named a triple murder/suicide near Claresholm on Highway 2.
The four were believed to be travelling to the Calgary airport where the P.E.I. natives planned to fly home for the holidays.
Police are beginning to piece together the events that led to the killings, claiming three lives, one of which was celebrating his birthday earlier in the night.
In what’s being painted as a controlling year-long relationship, the shooter Derek Jensen threatened recent ex-girlfriend Stepple as she celebrated a friends birthday in a pub Wednesday night.
According to the Calgary Sun, friends of Stepple say Jensen lost his mind at the pub when the two crossed paths and he called her continuously when she left the bar.
Stepple was among the three found dead on Highway 2 around 3:30am Thursday morning, after being shot to death by Jensen.
Jensen, the fourth body discovered by RCMP, turned the gun on himself.
Best friends and rising baseball stars, 20 year-old Mitch Mclean and 22 year-old Tanner Craswell, were on their way home for Christmas when they were killed.
Shayna Conway, the lone survivor, was also on her way home to P.E.I. for the holidays.
Her family has since flown to Calgary, where she is recovering in hospital.
Mounties hope Conway’s recollection of the shooting will help them together more details.
