Edmonton man charged with 1st-degree murder in bloody warehouse stabbing rampage

EDMONTON – A man arrested after a bloody stabbing rampage at an Edmonton grocery warehouse will be charged Saturday afternoon with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

Police say 29-year-old Jayme Pasieka is also facing two charges of possessing an offensive weapon.

Pasieka was arrested after a man with a knife in each hand, and wearing a protective vest, burst into the Loblaws warehouse and started stabbing people through the complex.

Two people were killed in the attack and four others were hurt, two seriously.

The attacker fled the scene and was arrested without incident three hours later when his vehicle was spotted by an alert citizen.

Police say Pasieka worked at the warehouse, but they have not said what the motive was for the attack.

The two people killed in a stabbing rampage at the warehouse have also been identified.

Police say 50-year-old Fitzroy Harris and 41-year-old Thierno Bah were both killed in the bloody attack at the Loblaws grocery facility yesterday.

A Facebook page set up by friends says Bah was a member of the Edmonton’s Guinean community and had a wife and four young children.

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