The man found dead in St. Albert on Monday night has been identified as Trevor Keith Deleeuw, 25.
Deleeuw’s dead body was discovered in the parking lot of Nevada Place around 9 p.m. on April 6. Nevada Place is a newer apartment complex on Giroux Road, in the North Ridge neighbourhood.
The death of the young man, 25, has become part of a joint investigation between St. Albert RCMP and Edmonton Police Services. In a press release, RCMP said officers arrived at Nevada Place around 9:05 p.m., where they found the lifeless body of a man “with obvious trauma.” An investigation soon determined that Deleeuw did not die in the parking lot.
Not long before the body was discovered at Nevada Place, shots were fired in a parking lot in Edmonton. On Tuesday morning, Edmonton police homicide detectives were still on scene in the parking lot of Donna’s Eatery and other shops located at the corner of 215 Street (Winterburn Road) and 115 Avenue.
By car, it’s about 11 minutes to drive from Winterburn Road to Nevada Place, if one takes the Anthony Henday east and then heads north on Ray Gibbon Drive. When asked if the man was shot in that parking lot and then dropped off in St. Albert, Patrycia Thenu, a spokesperson with Edmonton Police Services, said, “That’s what homicide detectives believe happened.”
An autopsy on Wednesday morning found that Deleeuw died from gunshot wounds. His death is the sixth homicide in Edmonton in 2015.
Anyone with information about this incident can contact Edmonton Police Services at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
